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One of the most popular artists in American history is Andrew Newell Wyeth (1917-2009) of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Wyeth is the most famous member of a dynasty of painters. His professional career started when he was young. His early watercolors were evocative of Winslow Homer. His first exhibition sold out. His tempera paintings—including one of the best-known works of American art, Christina’s World—are marked by austerity and have a melancholic, mysterious, even surreal quality. At his death in 2009, Andrew Wyeth was hailed by some as the greatest American realist painter.