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Henriette Wyeth

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345: 296:, a fellow student at the Pennsylvania Academy and her father's apprentice. The couple had three children together: Peter Jr., Carolyn, and Michael Hurd. In the mid-1930s they moved to San Patricio, New Mexico, settling on a farm of 40 acres. By 1939, they established the Sentinel Ranch there, gradually acquiring more land until they had 2200 acres. It was in southern New Mexico near 196: 303:
Wyeth's father was not happy when they left the Pennsylvania area. As she said in a 1989 interview, "He felt I should not let marriage interfere with my painting" and worried that living on a ranch would draw her energy from it. Henriette Wyeth, however, did continue to paint for the rest of her life
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for a portrait of her son Peter. Wyeth's work spanned portraits of adults and children, still lifes, and floral landscapes. In her work, she "often included objects that related to the subject's interest or personality". She eventually stopped painting children because, as she said, "today's
143:, in the mid-1930s and raised their three children on a ranch there. They were both inspired by the landscape and eventually had a 2200-acre ranch. One of her well-known quotes is: "I don't know what is important and what is unimportant, so I call it all immensely important." 230:. She was also socially and politically conservative. As a result, later in life she rejected the progressive movements of the 1960s and 1970s, including the women's movement. She often criticized television and modern culture. 222:. By age 16, she was well known as a portraitist and received commissions for paintings of Wilmington residents. Deeply influenced by her father's unique realistic style, she rejected early 20th-century painting styles such as 186:
schools. She and her siblings were eventually homeschooled because their father distrusted the public school system. She began formal art lessons with her father at age 11, making charcoal studies and geometric shapes.
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and was inspired by the landscape. Later health problems prevented her from making art. She criticized contemporary television and feminism, and said that modern society had "blunted" children.
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website, she was "considered by many art scholars to be one of the great women painters of the 20th century". Her papers, and those of her husband (who died in 1984), are in the
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at age 3, which altered her health and use of her right hand. As a result, she learned to draw with her left hand and paint with her right. She grew up on the family farm in
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issue. She received awards for her work, including the Governor's Award in New Mexico and a Living Legacy Award from the Women's International Center.
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Soon after her student years, Hurd exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy (1927, 1936–44), where she was awarded the 1937
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The Annual Exhibition Record of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Volume III, 1914–1968
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magazine. Hurd and Wyeth were both commissioned to produce a cover portrait of President
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Henriette Wyeth died in her Roswell, New Mexico home-studio from complications from
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North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary
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A child prodigy, at age 13 Wyeth was enrolled in the Normal Arts School in
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Her work has also been included in a number of posthumous exhibitions:
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Independent Spirits, Women Painters of the American West, 1890–1945
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Magical & Real: Henriette Wyeth and Peter Hurd, a Retrospective
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also became artists, and all three studied with their father.
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White House Historical Association (White House Collection).
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Exhibition of Paintings by Peter Hurd & Henriette Wyeth
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Exhibition of Paintings by Peter Hurd & Henriette Wyeth
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Peter Hurd and Henriette Wyeth Hurd papers, 1917–1989
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The Wyeth Family: Three Generations of American Art
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Rockefeler III ( 405:(1935), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 324:According to her biography on the 14: 822:from the original on May 22, 2016 505:"WIC Biography – Henriette Wyeth" 453:Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art 432:(2010), Dulwich Picture Gallery, 398:Other exhibitions have included: 220:Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 90:Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 559:from the original on May 8, 2016 359:Much of her work is held by the 238:children--they are so deadpan." 443:Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts 214:. Two years later she moved to 200:Portrait of Patricia Ryan Nixon 1323:20th-century American painters 1275:Michael Palin in Wyeth's World 449:Nomads: Traversing Adolescence 1: 1228:Christian C. Sanderson Museum 439:The Wyeths: America's Artists 373:the National Portrait Gallery 361:Roswell Museum and Art Center 1208:N. C. 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Index

Wilmington, Delaware
Roswell, New Mexico
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
still life
N.C. Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
Peter Hurd
San Patricio, New Mexico
Wilmington, Delaware
N.C. Wyeth
Carolyn
Andrew
Andrew Wyeth
polio
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
Quaker

Boston, Massachusetts
Boston Museum of Art Academy
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Impressionism
Cubism
Mary Smith Prize
Helen Hayes
Paulette Goddard
Blanchette Hooker Rockefeler
Time
Lyndon B. Johnson

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