Jeffrey Brown:

Wyeth's first breakthrough, in 1902, was a cover for the "Saturday Evening Post," imagery of an already past and mythic American west. He created magazine advertisements, including for "Cream of Wheat".

It was a time before television and our own screen-saturated lives, the golden age of illustration, and Wyeth was at its forefront. The commissions allowed him to buy property here in Pennsylvania and to support the other part of his life for which he became best known: as patriarch of an American art family dynasty, father of five children, three of them painters, most famously the youngest, Andrew.

Andrew Wyeth would become one of the biggest names in 20th century American art, also focusing on his hometown of Chadds Ford and summer home in Maine, including the celebrated Christina's World from 1948.

Andrew's son, N.C.'s grandson, is Jamie Wyeth.

This is the grounds of your childhood, huh?

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