Spectacular Freedom: Andrew Wyeth and the Modern American Watercolor

$50.00 at de Young Museum.

AVAILABLE IN OCTOBER   Beginning in the 1930s, Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009) built a monumental reputation for his watercolors—described by one critic at the time as having a “spectacular freedom.” In the medium, Wyeth depicted the people and places that surrounded him in rural Pennsylvania and Maine in expressive and evocative compositions. Though he later became known for his tempera paintings, he never ceased to work in watercolor, using the medium for both preliminary and finished works throughout his storied…