I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

He developed an extraordinary intimacy with the land and sea and strove for a spiritual understanding based on history and unspoken emotion. C. His son Jamie Wyeth followed his father's and grandfather's footsteps becoming the third generation of Wyeth artists.

artists of the middle 20th century. He was one of the best-known U. One of the best-known images in 20th-century American art is his painting Christina's World currently in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.