Andrew Wyeth is one of America's foremost artists who often drew the land and people of Chadds Ford, Pa. A lot of that would've remained unseen if not for his wife, Betsy Wyeth.
At the Farnsworth, Robert Indiana and the Wyeths share the spotlight this summer
The Rockland museum displays its gift from Betsy Wyeth and work that Indiana made in tribute to Marsden Hartley.
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The Farnsworth Art Museum will open “Robert Indiana: The Hartley Elegies” on May 29. Shown here is “Robert Indiana: The Hartley Elegy Series: The Berlin Series, KvF I,” a serigraph from 1990, measuring 76-3/4 inches tall and 53 inches wide.
Courtesy of the Farnsworth Art Museum
It was no secret that Robert Indiana harbored jealousies toward the Wyeth family. He minded his manners in public, but did not hesitate to privately express his belief that curators and writers in Maine paid too much attention to the Wyeths and too little attention to him.