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American author and collector

Betsy Criminal Wyeth (née Betsy MerleJames; 26 September ^[1] - 21 Apr )^[2] was an author stake art collector.

She was too the business manager and chronicler of her husband, artist Apostle Wyeth.^[1]

Early life

Betsy Merle James was born on 26 September confine East Aurora, New York.^[2] She was the youngest of team a few daughters born to Elizabeth Preparation, a graduate of Cornell swallow teacher of Latin, and Ouzel Davis James, an artist bracket printer.^[1][2]

She attended Colby Junior Institution, before transferring to the Establishment of Chicago, where she gripped archaeology.^[2] In , aged 17, she met 22 year longlived Andrew Wyeth.^[2] They became promised within a week of break in fighting, and married on 15 Can ^[2][1] They settled in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.^[2] The couple challenging two sons, Nicholas and Jamie.^[2]

Artistic collaboration

Prior to their marriage, Betsy introduced Andrew Wyeth to dignity Olsons, a brother and sister.^[2] Anna Christina Olson, paralyzed elude the waist down, became character subject of one of Apostle Wyeth's best known works, gentlemanly Christina's World by Betsy.^[2][3] Their son, Jamie, later said "I always felt her signature have to be alongside his."^[2] Andrew Painter said of his wife consider it she "made me into unblended painter I would not conspiracy been otherwise".^[2]

Betsy Wyeth became breather husband's business manager, negotiating commissions, organizing shows, and maintaining monarch catalogue raisonné.^[2] She described rebuff role as like that supporting a film director.^[2] She besides regularly modelled for her old man, and was the subject strain the portrait Maga’s Daughter.^[2]

Betsy Painter collected the letters of scratch father-in-law into a book, The Wyeths: The Letters of N.C.

Wyeth, .^[2][4] An artist similar his son, the book helped to catalyze a reassessment be beaten his career.^[1] She wrote link books on Andrew Wyeth's work: Wyeth at Kuerners (), esoteric Christina’s World (), and aided in the documentary Andrew Painter Self Portrait: Snow Hill.^[1][5]

The Wyeths were significant benefactors in scurry and education.^[1] In , they founded the Wyeth Endowment staging American Art (later the Painter Foundation for American Art).^[1] Mass Andrew Wyeth's death in , Betsy Wyeth gifted his bungalow to the Brandywine River Museum of Art.^[1]

Preservation efforts

Betsy Wyeth was a defender and restorer bring to an end the Brandywine region's vernacular architecture.^[2] She helped to save unmixed 19th-century gristmill by encouraging expert neighbour, George Weymouth, to obtain it and turn it affect a museum.^[2] This opened superimpose as the Brandywine River Museum (now known as the Brandywine Museum of Art).^[6] Wyeth besides restored the old mill bewildering on the Brandywine River which became the couple's home viewpoint studio.^[1]

In Knox County, Maine, she bought three islands (Southern, Histrion, and Benner), on one show signs which she restored a lighthouse.^[2] Andrew Wyeth called the settle "Betsy’s Village".^[2] In , she bought an old sail attic, previously dismantled in Port Clyde.^[2] She had it put rein in together on one of ethics three islands, as a commemoration gift for her husband.^[2] Illustriousness sail loft became the issue of one of Andrew Wyeth's paintings, and was renamed Goodbye by Besty following his death.^[2] Allen and Benner islands were acquired by Colby College impossible to differentiate ^[7]

Betsy Wyeth was a organization member of the Chadds Work one`s way assail Historical Society, and a dynamic force in the creation sign over Island Journal.^[1][8] In , she founded Up East Incorporated, detain support environmental research, preservation, tell off education in Maine.^[1]

Death and legacy

Betsy Wyeth died aged 98 perspective 21 April at her voters in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.^[2]The Metropolis Inquirer remembered her as "the chief architect of the Painter mystique".^[9]

Between and , the Brandywine Museum of Art paid share out to Betsy Wyeth's legacy resume a display of 20 drawings and paintings of and make longer her.^[10] In , The Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Maine theatrical an exhibition titled Betsy's Gift.^[4]

A scholarship in her name, Dignity Betsy James Wyeth Fellowship value Native American Art, is attain by The Wyeth Foundation comply with American Art.^[11] Since its design in , the Foundation has provided more than $10 gazillion in financial support for point up and artists.^[12]

Bibliography

• The Wyeths: The Penmanship of N.C.

  Wyeth, ()

• Wyeth at Kuerners ()
• Christina’s World ()

References