His somewhat desolate landscapes are depicted from often unexpected angles, and feature self-consciously nostalgic or lonely figures. "His paintings are solidly traditionalist, inspired almost exclusively by the life and landscapes of Pennsylvania, where he spent his winters at Chadds Ford, and his summers at his home in Cushing, Maine. He lived and worked in his hometown of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. He became a member of the American Watercolor Society in 1940, and was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1950. He never travelled to Europe, and did not attend art school. He suffered from a nervous temperament as a child, and was taught at home by his father and a series of tutors, from 1923 to 1929. "Andrew Wyeth was the youngest of the five children of Newell Convers Wyeth.
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