The exhibition, which will remain in Boston through January 3, 1988, can only be viewed by reserving a ticket through TICKETRON or the museum's Wyeth box office. and author of "Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures." "Such close attention by a painter to one model over so long a period is a remarkable, if not singular, circumstance in the history of American art," writes John Wilmerding, deputy director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. He sold the works for $10 million and received national media attention unusual for an American artist. The paintings created a stir last summer when Wyeth revealed that he had been working with the model in secret for 15 years. "Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures," an exihibition of 107 drawings and watercolors by the popular and controversial American artist, opens tomorrow at the Museum of Fine Arts.Įxecuted during a 15-year span from 1971 to 1985, the suite of drawings focuses exclusively on a single model, Wyeth's neighbor Helga Testorf of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
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