Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth: Kuerners and Olsons

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976. — 193 p. — (The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 34, no. 2 Fall, 1976).This exhibition, Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth: Kuerners and Olsons, attempts to unwrap some of the package-or packages-that surround the artist. We are neither trying to create an image nor to dismantle one.
We seek to examine Wyeth very closely, without preconceptions or labels: to observe, to reveal, perhaps to complicate rather than simplify his work. To pursue this task, we have chosen works only from the two essential environments of Andrew Wyeth's artistic life, where he has practiced for a generation: Kuerners farm at Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and Olsons farm in Gushing, Maine. For this examination, the artist has very graciously allowed us to see and exhibit any of the 1,500 studies that he made for the finished Kuerners and Olsons paintings. In this way, this exhibition is unique.
In addition, the exhibition must be considered only a preface to things to come, for it is the Metropolitan Museum's intention to prepare and produce a catalogue raisonne of all of Andrew Wyeth's production in these two environments.