James Wyeth , Bean Boots , 1985 , oil on panel , 37 x 50 ¼ in ., 43 x 56 ¼ x 1 1 / 8 in . ( framed ). Collection of the Farnsworth Art Museum , Gift of the Cawley Family , 2001.29.1 . © Jamie Wyeth . Image courtesy of the Farnsworth Art Museum .
OPENING JANUARY 20 , 2017
As a source of inspiration , Maine has played an important role in American art and culture since the 19th century . It was particularly attractive to early American painters who interpreted the State ’ s vast wildernesses and rockbound coast as emblematic of the nation ’ s rugged independence and unique spiritual relationship with nature . The reverence for nature eloquently written about in Henry David Thoreau ’ s The Maine Woods found visual expression in the paintings of generations of artists who have worked in the State .
The Farnsworth Art Museum holds one of the foremost collections of painting by artists in Maine , including work by George Bellows , Robert Henri , Marsden Hartley , Childe Hassam , Fitz Henry Lane , Rockwell Kent and John Marin . The Museum also has an outstanding collection of paintings by three generations of the Wyeth family . This original exhibition organized for the Orlando Museum of Art in conjunction with the Farnsworth Art Museum celebrates the 100th anniversary of Andrew Wyeth ’ s birth .
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