PHILADELPHIA
– Artist Andrew Wyeth, who portrayed the hidden melancholy of the
people and landscapes of Pennsylvania's Brandywine Valley and coastal
Maine in works such as "Christina's World," died early Friday. He was 91.
Wyeth
died in his sleep at his home in the Philadelphia suburb of Chadds
Ford, according to Hillary Holland, a spokeswoman for the Brandywine River Museum.
The
son of famed painter and book illustrator N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth
gained wealth, acclaim and tremendous popularity. But he chafed under
criticism from some experts who regarded him as a facile realist, not
an artist but merely an illustrator.