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American realist painter Andrew Wyeth dies
US realist painter Andrew Wyeth, whose paintings depict rural life in America, has died at his home in Pennsylvania at the age of 91, a spokeswoman from a museum that has an extensive collection of his work said on Friday.
- Agencies
- Published: 21:09 January 17, 2009
Washington: US realist painter Andrew Wyeth, whose paintings depict rural life in America, has died at his home in Pennsylvania at the age of 91, a spokeswoman from a museum that has an extensive collection of his work said on Friday.
Wyeth had been suffering from a "slight illness" and died in his sleep in the early hours on Friday at his home in Chadd's Ford near Philadelphia, said Lora Englehart of the Brandywine River Museum.
US President George W. Bush mourned the passing of the artist, who "captured America in his paintings of his native Pennsylvania and Maine."
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