Thousands never before seen works by artist Andrew Wyeth will now be displayed publicly at the Brandywine River Museum of Art is Chadds Ford, the artist's hometown, and elsewhere. He was born there in 1917 and was trained by his father N.C. Wyeth, an illustrator. He is the father of artist James Wyeth. The painter who often portrayed small town America made about 7,000 works over the course of his career, but only 15% of the collection has been released.
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Some 7,000 works by Andrew Wyeth, only 15 percent of which have been previously exhibited, will be made accessible for exhibition, scholarship and loans through a new partnership, notes the New York Times. The Wyeth Foundation for American Art has established a collection-sharing arrangement providing for more than 7,000 works of Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) to be maintained, conserved and exhibited for the general public at the Brandywine River Museum of Art and the Farnsworth Museum of Art, .