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Birth
1907 (Chadd's Ford, Pennsylvania)
Death
1997
Lived/Active
New Mexico/Pennsylvania
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still life, figure, and landscape painting
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The first child of illustrator N.C. Wyeth, Henriette Wyeth is considered one of the great female painters of the 20th century. She did powerful still life paintings and had a distinguished career as a portraitist whose subjects included actress Helen Hays, writer Paul Horgan, and First Lady Pat Nixon.
At age eleven, she began art study with her father although polio crippled her right hand. She learned a technique of holding the brush between her first and second fingers and was an accomp (showing 500 of 2539 characters). |
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