Andrew Wyeth is probably America's best-known living artist. His paintings are enormously popular but his achievement is controversial. Over his long career, he has mostly stood apart--sporadically cele.brated, often taken for granted, sometimes ignored,seldom studied in depth. It has been more than three decades since Wyeth's huge body of work has received concentrated scholarly attention. As the artist approaches his ninth decade, it is time to con-sider this master's work anew.

Directors' Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

John Wilmerding

Between Realism and Surrealism:

The Early Work of Andrew Wyeth

Michael R. Taylor

Andrew Wyeth's Language of Things

Anne Classen Knutson

Meaning and Medium in Wyeth's Art:

Revisiting Groundhog Day

Kathleen A. Foster

Betsy's World

Christopher Crosman

Plates

Checklist of Exhibition

Lenders to the Exhibition

Index