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The Brandywine Heritage
From New York Graphic Society. By Howard Pyle, N. C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, and James Wyeth. Introduction by Richard McLanathan. 18 colorplates, 80 black-and-white illustrations.
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121 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1974
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February 6, 2022
So, the museum director who wrote the introduction should not be allowed to write or introduce art. I found his prose boring, confusing, and not very informative on questions like,
“Why are Howard Pyle and the various Wyeths in a book together?”
and
“Why did you list a bunch of art at the beginning of each section and only show pictures of about 2/3 of them?”
The art itself is fascinating, of course. I like Howard Pyle best of them—I would need a trained art historian’s assistance, I think, to get anything in particular from the later two Wyeths, because it mostly looks like shabby Americana and a portrait of JFK. But the Pyle paintings are great, if hilariously lacking context. They would make great story prompts.
“Why are Howard Pyle and the various Wyeths in a book together?”
and
“Why did you list a bunch of art at the beginning of each section and only show pictures of about 2/3 of them?”
The art itself is fascinating, of course. I like Howard Pyle best of them—I would need a trained art historian’s assistance, I think, to get anything in particular from the later two Wyeths, because it mostly looks like shabby Americana and a portrait of JFK. But the Pyle paintings are great, if hilariously lacking context. They would make great story prompts.
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