A collection of over 130 reproduced paintings by one of America's most successful artists with comments on each painting by the artist. Includes chronologies of both his personal life and his professional exhibitions.

Presents color reproductions of paintings done by artist Andrew Wyeth of his African-American friends and neighbors in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, beginning in the 1930s and covering nearly seven decades.

Richard Meryman began an enduring friendship with Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) while on the job as a Life magazine editor in 1964. For Meryman, this unique friendship yielded more than four decades of recorded conversations with Wyeth, his family, friends and neighbors in Wyeth's homes in Pennsylvania and Maine. Meryman notes that, whether during formal interviews, shared meals, car rides or long walks, "Wyeth applied to himself the same sensitive understandings...