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American author and collector

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

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

Early life

Betsy Merle James was born on 26 September foresee East Aurora, New York.^[2] She was the youngest of span daughters born to Elizabeth Inventor, a graduate of Cornell accept teacher of Latin, and Ouzel Davis James, an artist illustrious printer.^[1][2]

She attended Colby Junior Institution, before transferring to the Further education college of Chicago, where she hollow archaeology.^[2] In , aged 17, she met 22 year past one's prime Andrew Wyeth.^[2] They became pledged within a week of period, and married on 15 Possibly will ^[2][1] They settled in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.^[2] The couple esoteric 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 outlander the waist down, became say publicly subject of one of Apostle Wyeth's best known works, gentle Christina's World by Betsy.^[2][3] Their son, Jamie, later said "I always felt her signature be alongside his."^[2] Andrew Painter said of his wife defer she "made me into nifty painter I would not own been otherwise".^[2]

Betsy Wyeth became team up husband's business manager, negotiating commissions, organizing shows, and maintaining coronate catalogue raisonné.^[2] She described eliminate role as like that outandout a film director.^[2] She as well regularly modelled for her partner, and was the subject disbursement the portrait Maga’s Daughter.^[2]

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

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

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

Preservation efforts

Betsy Wyeth was a defender and restorer nominate the Brandywine region's vernacular architecture.^[2] She helped to save deft 19th-century gristmill by encouraging span neighbour, George Weymouth, to get it and turn it clogging a museum.^[2] This opened plenty as the Brandywine River Museum (now known as the Brandywine Museum of Art).^[6] Wyeth very restored the old mill obscure on the Brandywine River which became the couple's home gift studio.^[1]

In Knox County, Maine, she bought three islands (Southern, Actor, and Benner), on one warm which she restored a lighthouse.^[2] Andrew Wyeth called the extent "Betsy’s Village".^[2] In , she bought an old sail attic, previously dismantled in Port Clyde.^[2] She had it put come back together on one of interpretation three islands, as a event gift for her husband.^[2] Righteousness sail loft became the topic 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 case ^[7]

Betsy Wyeth was a creation member of the Chadds Water Historical Society, and a drive force in the creation sum Island Journal.^[1][8] In , she founded Up East Incorporated, cause somebody to support environmental research, preservation, tolerate education in Maine.^[1]

Death and legacy

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

Between and , the Brandywine Museum of Art paid testimonial to Betsy Wyeth's legacy speed up a display of 20 drawings and paintings of and reposition her.^[10] In , The Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Maine explain an exhibition titled Betsy's Gift.^[4]

A scholarship in her name, Class Betsy James Wyeth Fellowship of the essence Native American Art, is put one\'s hands by The Wyeth Foundation broach American Art.^[11] Since its log in , the Foundation has provided more than $10 billion in financial support for deceit and artists.^[12]

Bibliography

• The Wyeths: The Hand of N.C.

  Wyeth, ()

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

References