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Andrew
Wyeth worked primarily in watercolors and he
utilized his vivid memory and vigorous imagination
in his work to move them from strikingly realistic
to often surrealistic. Typically, he would both
begin and end a paining outdoors. His blatant
disregard for his watercolor paintings are apparent
based upon viewing the creases and torn edges
found on some of them.
In 1964, he was paid $64,000 for a paiting entitled
'Her Room.' It was the most ever paid by a gallery
to a living artist at the time. He was also
the first living artist to ever be displayed
at most galleries in the United States. Wyeth
still paints to this day.
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