Andrew Wyeth

Andrew Wyeth spent his career painting the landscape and inhabitants of two places - the farm country of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and the coast of Maine near Cushing - with a meticulous tempera technique and a compositional severity that placed him outside the dominant movements of twentieth-century American painting. Christina's World (1948) - a woman dragging herself across a field toward a farmhouse - is among the most widely reproduced paintings in American history. He kept his series of 247 paintings of his neighbor Helga Testorf secret for more than a decade.