Andrew Wyeth, iconic American painter, 91
By Michael Kimmelman | Published: January 16, 2009

Andrew Wyeth, one of the most popular and also most lambasted artists in the history of American art, a reclusive linchpin in a colorful family dynasty of artists from tiny Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, whose precise realist views of hardscrabble rural life became icons of American culture and sparked endless debates about the nature of modern art, died Friday at his home in suburban Philadelphia, The Associated Press reported. He was 91.

Wyeth died in his sleep at his home in Chadds Ford, The AP said, citing Hillary Holland, a spokeswoman for the Brandywine River Museum.

Wyeth offered a prim and flinty view of Puritan American rectitude, starchily sentimental, through parched gray and brown pictures of spooky frame houses, desiccated fields, deserted beaches, circling buzzards and craggy-faced New Englanders. A virtual Rorschach test for American culture during the better part of the last century, Wyeth split public opinion as vigorously as, and probably even more so than, any other American painter including Andy Warhol, whose milieu was as urban as Wyeth's was rural.

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