N. C. Wyeth Home, Chadds Ford, PA
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An Andrew Wyeth painting which shows a scene from the living room in the home where he grew up, appears on this 2017 U.S. postage stamp.
Waymark Code: WM127Z4
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 03/24/2020
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Realist painter, Andrew Wyeth, was the son of prominent illustrator N. C. Wyeth. Having achieved significant success with a series of illustrations for Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island,” N. C. Wyeth built this house and a studio on property he purchased in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Various members of the Wyeth family lived in the house from the time of its completion in 1911 until the death of N. C. Wyeth’s daughter, Carolyn, in 1994. Today, the house is open to the public and tours are provided by the Brandywine Conservancy.
Several of N. C. Wyeth’s children followed in his footsteps becoming accomplished artists themselves. But none more so than Andrew Wyeth whose career spanned much of the twentieth century. In 2017, the U.S. Postal Service honored Andrew Wyeth with a set of commemorative stamps featuring twelve of his paintings. One of these, called “Big Room,” shows the fireplace in the main sitting room of the house that he grew up in.
Today, the house is furnished to appear as it did around 1945 when N. C. Wyeth was tragically killed in a car accident involving a collision with a train. The arrangement of the area around the fireplace attempts to recreate the scene found in the painting (and on the stamp). Both the house and N. C. Wyeth’s studio have been declared a National Historic Landmark.
Stamp Issuing Country: United States
Date of Issue: 12-Jul-2017
Denomination: (49c)
Color: multicolored
Stamp Type: Single Stamp
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