Winter 1946 by Andrew Wyeth. Credit: ©2017 ANDREW WYETH/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY
Winter 1946 by Andrew Wyeth.
Winter 1946 by Andrew Wyeth. ©2017 ANDREW WYETH/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY

The Exhibit

Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect was organized by Seattle Art Museum with the Brandywine River Museum of Art for the 100th anniversary of the artist’s birth, in 1917. It includes never-before-exhibited drawings, rough drafts, studies, and paintings.

The Paint

Wyeth made Winter 1946 with tempera on a hardboard panel. Unlike oil paint, tempera has to be made daily from egg yolk and pigment, and it dries quickly.

The Location

This is a real place depicted above—Kuerner’s Hill outside Chadds Ford, in rural Pennsylvania, where the artist spent part of his childhood.

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