The Realist painter Andrew Wyeth was born the youngest of five children to the successful artist/illustrator, N.C. Wyeth, in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania in 1917. He learned to paint with the keen observation and the drafting skills that his father passed on to him. His subjects, mainly nostalgic images of unpainted houses, austere New Englanders, and landscapes from his surroundings, have been enormously popular since his first sold out one-man show in New York in 1937. Like his father, he was offered the opportunity to paint covers for The Saturday Evening Post, but unlike his father, he declined, preferring to pursue a free interpretative course in his art. Ironically, because of his ability to capture on canvas the American sense of courage and its triumph over the struggles and trials of life, Andrew Wyeth was the first artist to be featured on the cover of...