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The neighbors first met in 1939 when Wyeth was 22 and courting 17-year-old Betsy James, who would later become his wife and muse. It was James who introduced to Wyeth to the 45-year-old Olson ...
CHADDS FORD, Pa. — Betsy James Wyeth, the widow, business manager, and muse of painter Andrew Wyeth, died Tuesday at age 98, according to the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, Pa ...
In Betsy James Wyeth's handwriting. Letter from Andrew Wyeth to Edward Hopper, 1961, written in wife Betsy's hand. Hopper had asked the fellow American realist to protest the Whitney Museum's ...
His partner, Betsy James Wyeth, looking up at the house that she herself restored, and a jumbo jet is flying overhead, the 747 of the title.” “He is not only backwards looking, he is fascinated by ...
Works by three generations of Wyeth artists (NC, Andrew, and Jamie) dominate the museum's collection, housed in a former 19th-century gristmill on the banks of the Brandywine River, and extend to its ...