![]() She learned that to hide the identity of his model, whose real name is Helga Testorf, Wyeth changed the subject’s race, darkening the skin and saying that it was a picture of Betty Hammond, a black maid who had worked with the Wyeth family for 37 years. She still lives nearby, in a modest ranch house. Only a half-mile through the woods from the studios is Kuerner Farm, the site of dozens of his portraits and landscapes, notably the paintings of his frequent model, Helga. Wyeth, are just down the road from the museum and part of a 60,000-acre land trust that his family helped create. It still looks that way today.īoth his white clapboard studio, marked by a sign that says “I do not sign autographs,” and the studio of his father, the illustrator N. ![]() ![]() Wyeth (1917-2009), one of the most popular American painters of the 20th century, was deeply tied to this lush, densely forested landscape with old stone houses and horses grazing on hills. Shaw, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, was invited by the curators behind “Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect,” a 105-work exhibition that opens on Saturday, June 24, at the Brandywine and honors the centenary of the painter’s birth. ![]() The art historian Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw took a 45-minute drive from Philadelphia to the Brandywine River Museum of Art here two years ago on a sensitive mission: to study Andrew Wyeth’s pictures of black subjects. ![]()
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