# RIP Andrew Wyeth **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 16, 2009, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-andrew-wyeth/481609 "2009-01-16T15:58:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-andrew-wyeth/481609/1 "2009-01-16T15:58:05Z")
[At the age of 91.](http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/01/artist-andrew-w.html) Thinking of [Wyeth](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wyeth) makes me wonder – will any artist ever again get famous for doing something like [this](http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=78455)? Or is realist art a genre whose time has passed forever? ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-andrew-wyeth/481609/2 "2009-01-16T16:18:09Z")
I didn’t know he was still alive! He’s my favorite artist, along with Thomas Hart Benton. If I had more wall space, I’d have more than two Wyeth prints on my walls. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-andrew-wyeth/481609/3 "2009-01-16T16:29:22Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > will any artist ever again get famous for doing something like [this](http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=78455)? A) Let’s fucking hope so, and B) Of course one will. No genre disappears forever. EDIT: OK, that was a bit too broad. Of course specific genres can disappear, but something as encompassing as “realist art” will not. It will come back. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-andrew-wyeth/481609/4 "2009-01-16T16:57:23Z")
I had no idea Wyeth was still alive. Christina’s World makes me feel incredibly claustraphobic. ---
**Author:** ![Tarwater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de0a6/32.png) [@Tarwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarwater)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-andrew-wyeth/481609/5 "2009-01-16T17:06:21Z")
_Christina’s World_ is pretty good. Sad to see him go. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-andrew-wyeth/481609/6 "2009-01-16T17:34:35Z")
My favorite is _The Scarecrow_. It’s on [this page](http://www.artselect.com/perl/frArtistByLastName?artist=Andrew+Wyeth&letter=W). I also like _Master Bedroom_, and the one (don’t know the name) that’s just a filmy curtain blowing in a window. ---
**Author:** ![tim-n-va](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim-n-va/32/3001_2.png) [@tim-n-va](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim-n-va)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-andrew-wyeth/481609/7 "2009-01-16T19:48:14Z")
I’ll admit it. I didn’t realize that “Christina’s World” was of a girl with polio crawling home. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-andrew-wyeth/481609/8 "2009-01-16T19:50:12Z")
I have a print of _Master Bedroom_. It makes me sad, though; the dog looks so old. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-andrew-wyeth/481609/9 "2009-01-16T21:22:19Z")
He does look old, doesn’t he? I like that one (I have it too) because we had a dog like that once, and because the bedroom is almost exactly like a bedroom (even the bedspread) in an old farmhouse we lived in when I was a kid. It’s just so peaceful looking – one of Wyeth’s warmer pieces. A lot of his stuff looks cold. I don’t know why it’s so inviting, but it is. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-andrew-wyeth/481609/10 "2009-01-16T21:52:17Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > I didn’t know he was still alive! Postin’ “me too” like some brain-dead AOLer. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-andrew-wyeth/481609/11 "2009-01-17T01:17:26Z")
Sigh. I wonder if Helga will be at the funeral. I wonder if Siri will. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-andrew-wyeth/481609/12 "2009-01-17T02:37:49Z")
I thought Christina of “Christina’s World” was blind, not polio-stricken? I grew up about 15 minutes from his house in Chadds Ford, PA (his son Jamie, also an artist, had a home nearby, though I don’t know if he’s still there). My mother had seen him a couple of times at a little restaurant in the area back in the 1980s, and she said he looked very old even then. (In fact, when I called her this morning with the news that he had died, her first words were, “My God, how old _was_ he?” :p) A great artist. He’ll be missed. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-andrew-wyeth/481609/13 "2009-01-17T03:57:13Z")
> [@tim-n-va](#): > > I’ll admit it. I didn’t realize that “Christina’s World” was of a girl with polio crawling home. > [@gallows\_fodder](#): > > I thought Christina of “Christina’s World” was blind, not polio-stricken? It’s a view from the farthest she can crawl to from her house, in other words, a view of her entire world. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-andrew-wyeth/481609/14 "2009-01-17T11:08:52Z")
When Snoopy (of _Peanuts_) lost his Van Gogh in the doghouse fire, he gets an Andrew Wyeth to replace it.