Farnsworth announces historic bequest of 27 major Wyeth works from Betsy Wyeth
James Wyeth, (American, b. 1946), Shorty, 1963. Oil on canvas, 18 x 22 inches.
ROCKLAND, ME
.-The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, announced the receipt of major gifts of art from the bequest of Betsy James Wyeth. All twenty-seven new acquisitions by the three generations of Wyeth painters, N.C., Andrew, and Jamie Wyeth, will be on view, beginning Saturday, May 15, as part of a landmark new exhibition entitled Betsys Gift: The Works of N.C., Andrew, and Jamie Wyeth. The exhibition will be accompanied by a complementary exhibition of works by Andrew Wyeth, Betsy Wyeth: Partner and Muse, which features five Wyeth works that have never been exhibited in public. Betsy James Wyeth passed away last spring, at the age of ninety-eight.