Book Detail

First Impressions: Andrew Wyeth

Publication Information
Author:  Meryman, Richard Illustrator:  
Title:  First Impressions: Andrew Wyeth Date:  1991
Publisher:  Harry N. Abrams, Inc. City:  New York
ISBN, paperback:  0-8109-3956-8 ISBN, hardback:  

Recommended audience:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes ESOL:  
Family:   Young Adult:   Yes
Picture:   Yes

General Information:
Book Type(s):    biography and autobiography

HSE Descriptor(s):    language arts - reading

Summary:
This biography of Andrew Wyeth is the result of a friendship between the artist and the author. The book focuses on Wyeth's early years, his relationship with his father, and his development as an artist. One reader felt that the vocabulary might be difficult for low level readers.

Teaching Ideas:
The book can be used in a text set of artists on art that includes Grant Wood, A Drawing in the Sand, Walking the Log, and Deep Blue. Learners will want to discuss and write about the stimulation, motivation, barriers, and nurturing that contribute to an artist's development. Readers might begin by examining the reproductions of Wyeth's paintings to guess characteristics of Wyeth from them. Students especially interested in art might want to explore the difference between painting and illustrating, using Wyeth and his father as examples. Look at his father's murals that are reproduced in the book N.C. Wyeth's Pilgrims by Robert San Souci.

Keywords: select any link below for a list of resources which also have that keyword
bullet Art and Photography > art > painting
bullet Emotions-Personal Issues > personal issues > group > relationships
bullet Emotions-Personal Issues > emotions > imagination
bullet Family > children > childhood
bullet Family > father > father-child relationships
bullet Art and Photography > art > artists > Wyeth, Andrew


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