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Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures 1/13/1996 - 3/24/1996 From January 13 to March 24, 1996, the Norton Museum of Art will present the exhibition "Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures." The exhibition will include 83 paintings, watercolors, and drawings from the Helga series by artist Andrew Wyeth. Tickets by phone will be available for $8.00. Tickets purchased in advance at the Museum or Ticketmaster are $7.00. Tickets include this exhibition as well as all other galleries open in the Museum. Andrew Wyeth is an enormously popular and critically acclaimed American realist painter whose artistic career has spanned over 50 years. Wyeth's subjects are largely the human figure, often set in the landscapes of Pennsylvania's Brandywine Valley and the coastal farmland of Cushing, Maine. The Helga Pictures represent a unique body of work for Wyeth. The subject of virtually the entire group is Helga Testorf, a neighbor of Wyeth's in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. The collection was executed over a 15 year period, from 1971 to 1985, completed in total secrecy, known only to the artist and model. This was the first time that Wyeth permitted into public view a large suite of sequential drawings related to a single work. Such close attention by a painter to one model over such a long period of time affords the viewer aunique opportunity to see intertwined images of physiological change and artistic growth. Wyeth presents his subject nude and clothed, indoors and out, in different seasons and times of day. The resulting images go beyond documentary working studies, possessing a compelling strength and beauty. The Norton is the first venue south of Washington, D.C. to exhibit these important works. This will be the only venue in Florida to receive the show.  |
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