| | I just stumbled across this group while searching for the image, and have to comment. I'm something of a student of Wyeth's, and think I can inform this discussion.
Wyeth is a master of light. He learned a lot from Hopper, and is one of the best contemporary artists at depicting and using the play of light in his works.
His paintings are also typically about ABSENCE. He has said that what is not present in a painting is at least as important as what is present.
Both of these qualities are in this piece, which I find absolutely stunning, one of his best ever. This is a depiction of his own death. The woman in the painting is his wife, Betsy. She is looking down at Keurner's farm, which is next door to his home in Pennsylvania, and the subject of hundreds of his works. She is in an obviously luxurious private jet, and the empty seat opposite her is the one Wyeth would normally occupy. This is literally a painting of heaven. Wyeth is in his eighties -- it's amazing that a man of that age could paint something as unflinching as this.
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