Andrew Wyeth is not dead
"The most important thing is Andrew Wyeth is not dead," Victoria Wyeth tells the 20 people gathered in the lobby of the Farnsworth Art Museum. "I just talked to him five minutes ago. So I guess he's not dead."
SHE'S an art object herself, layers of white and black: slicked-down platinum hair, black shirt, white skirt and, on her feet, black Ferragamos. Her words come fast; "hyper," she calls herself.
She gives the basic genealogy: How Andrew's father was N.C. Wyeth, the illustrator of such adventure books as "Treasure Island" and "Robinson Crusoe" before he was killed in 1945 when his car was struck by a train near the family's main home, in Chadds Ford, Pa. Andrew, married for 67 years to the former Betsy Merle James, whom he met during the Wyeths' summers in Maine, has two sons: Jamie, who inherited the art gene, and her father, Nicholas, who did not but became an agent for the pair.
"Daddy sells the paintings, my uncle and my grandfather paint them, my grandmother titles them, and I talk about them," Victoria says.
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SHE'S an art object herself, layers of white and black: slicked-down platinum hair, black shirt, white skirt and, on her feet, black Ferragamos. Her words come fast; "hyper," she calls herself.
She gives the basic genealogy: How Andrew's father was N.C. Wyeth, the illustrator of such adventure books as "Treasure Island" and "Robinson Crusoe" before he was killed in 1945 when his car was struck by a train near the family's main home, in Chadds Ford, Pa. Andrew, married for 67 years to the former Betsy Merle James, whom he met during the Wyeths' summers in Maine, has two sons: Jamie, who inherited the art gene, and her father, Nicholas, who did not but became an agent for the pair.
"Daddy sells the paintings, my uncle and my grandfather paint them, my grandmother titles them, and I talk about them," Victoria says.