Artist:
Karl J. Kuerner
(American, b. 1957)
Sitter:
Carolyn Wyeth
(American, 1909 - 1994)
Miss Wyeth
Medium: Acrylic on panel
Date: 1981
Dimensions:
29 × 39 in. (73.7 × 99.1 cm)
Accession number: 85.10.84
Copyright: © Karl J. Kuerner
Label Copy:
Taught by Carolyn Wyeth and mentored by Andrew Wyeth, Karl J. Kuerner grew up watching Andrew Wyeth paint at the Kuerner family farm for decades and was deeply influenced by Wyeth’s emotion and passion for the land. Taught by Carolyn Wyeth and mentored by Andrew, Kuerner’s work is rooted in his own love for the people and landscape of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. In Miss Wyeth, Kuerner pictures Carolyn standing on the second floor porch of the N. C. Wyeth House, conveying a sense of contented solitude as she surveys her world from the center of the canvas.
Taught by Carolyn Wyeth and mentored by Andrew Wyeth, Karl J. Kuerner grew up watching Andrew Wyeth paint at the Kuerner family farm for decades and was deeply influenced by Wyeth’s emotion and passion for the land. Taught by Carolyn Wyeth and mentored by Andrew, Kuerner’s work is rooted in his own love for the people and landscape of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. In Miss Wyeth, Kuerner pictures Carolyn standing on the second floor porch of the N. C. Wyeth House, conveying a sense of contented solitude as she surveys her world from the center of the canvas.