TITLE: The Helga Pictures
AUTHOR: WYETH, Andrew (Introduction by John Wilmerding):
PUBLISHER and DATE: Abrams, 1987
BINDING: Hardback.
SIZE: 10 " by 11.25 " 208 pages
CONDITION: Very good. Minor shelf wear to book. Jacket shows some rubbing. Book is in very good shape
SYNOPSIS: 294 illustrations, 96 in colour, list of works, chronology of exhibitions,bibliography, index.. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, May-Sept. 1987.
Text by John Wilmerding, with comments on the pictures by Andrew Wyeth. Introductory essay by Leondard E.B. Andrews, who purchased the entire collection with the intention of preserving them as national treasures. Every item of the 240 work Helga series done by Wyeth between 1971-1985, when he chronicled this one woman with passionate intensity and artistry. She appears in all moods and all seasons--wrapped in sheepskin, crowned with wildflowers, lying among autumn leaves; she undergoes the physical changes the years make. Over and over there are rare glimpses into Wyeth's working methods as finished works emerge from studies marked with flashes of artistic intuition. "Helga takes her place among those models, like Rembrandt's Saskia and Picasso's Dora Maar, who were transformed by genius into symbols of all women."
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