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The Helga pictures have since come into the ownership of a private Japanese interest, which continues to allow access to the works through select public exhibitions.Īlthough the collection was brought to a close in 1985 Andrew Wyeth added one last picture to the massive collection in March 2002 entitled 'Gone.' To this day Helga continues to be connected to the Wyeth family acting as a caregiver to the aging artist. He agreed to a coast-to-coast tour organized by the National Gallery of Art from 1987-89. Andrews purchased the entire series so that people everywhere could experience seeing the collection in its entirety. He painted her clothed and nude, awake and asleep. He painted her in the studio, outside in the shadows and sunlight, during every season and time of day. He often focused on a particular element or motif such as her radiant reddish-blonde hair or the light describing a curve of her body leaving the rest of the image less finished. Andrew Wyeth - The Helga Pictures Used - Hard Cover - 208 pages - First Edition 1987 - 9.8 x 11.2 x 1 inches Excellent condition - Like new For 15 years. She was one of the painter’s muses, appearing in several other artworks. The subject of Christina’s World is Anna Christina Olson. They were not meant to be a psychological portrait of a person rather the study of the effects of light on a woman's body. Andrew Wyeth’s favorite subjects were the land and people around him, both around his hometown of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and his summer home in Midcoast Maine. Wyeth was an idiosyncratic artist whose seven decades of work focus mainly on two families in two locations: the Kuerners in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and the Olsons in South Cushing, Maine.

The Helga Pictures depicts a persistence of vision and technique from a perspective that is both objective and personal.

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