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David Michaelis has done an extraordinary amount of research, and the book should mesmerize Wyeth fans. But he seems to doubt his own ability to make this dramatic material come alive, for he resorts to false suspense--using a baby's death and the suggestion of foul play on page 1 to hook the reader, but nearly 200 pages later allows that there's not really any evidence for his conjectures. And he liberally employs italics, giving the text an insistent tone that is at times intrusive. Nonetheless, Michaelis adroitly chronicles Wyeth's complicated, fraught relationship with his family. And he is especially perceptive in his analysis of N.C.'s stormy ties to his mentor, Howard Pyle. The artist's genteel inability to talk money, even during the Depression; his devotion to his neurotic mother; and the magical world of Chadd's Ford, where he watchfully, jealously raised his children, are all beautifully described. This is a valuable, multifaceted look at a passionate, difficult subject. In the end, Wyeth emerges, warts and all, as a complex individual, whose inner life was thoroughly entwined with every aspect of his art. --Peggy Moorman
"A full-scale, many-voiced, deeply researched study"
--Adam Gopnik, The N.Y. Times Book Review
"An epic portrait...It sets the basis for considering the impact of the Wyeth art dynasty on America's collective notion of who we are...Michaelis has mined a mother lode of biographical gold."
--Ann Prichard, USA Today
"An exemplary study of the influence of ancestry upon imagination, and of imagination's power to make art out of family experience. "
--Edmund Morris
"Splendid"
--Edward J. Sozanski, Philadelphia Inquirer
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