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The artist who found herself a star in her eighth and ninth decades allows us into her inner sanctum ahead of her show at David Zwirner in L.A.

I saw subjects everywhere. You use what you’ve got.

The Unstoppable Rose Wylie Left alone and unconstrained, the British artist has painted throughout the pandemic. The artist Rose Wylie at her home and studio in Kent, England, surrounded by her wild, rambling garden. Credit...Sam Wright By Tess Thackara April 22, 2021, 5:50 p.m. ET The artist Rose Wylie came of age in austere postwar England, a member of the so-called Silent Generation, but she doesn’t quite fit the mold. While she leads a relatively frugal and hermetic life that exemplifies the resourcefulness her contemporaries are known for, silent she is not. At 86, Wylie paints freewhe...

Brushes With Art: Brian Scott Campbell's canvases inspire a sense of homecoming and renewal Benjamin Terrell Speaking about a particular work by the American modernist painter Marsden Hartley, the contemporary painter Tal R said, "If you tell someone you want to paint ... the sea, perhaps a boat, maybe the sun … any art school teacher would say it is suicide." "But in fact," he muses about the master artist's straightforward subject, "it is the most brilliant … . It actually is everything a painting is ever about." Hartley had been considered a Cubist, an Expressionist, had painted pointi...

Type keyword(s) to search Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Artist Rose Wylie Proves Success Gets Better With Age The lauded 86-year-old's first major New York exhibition opens this spring. David M. BenettGetty Images A tour of Rose Wylie’s painting studio is like a visit to an archaeological dig. Wylie runs out of space frequently, so layering her paintings on top of one another is the only way to make room for new ones. “I heap, stack, and pile,” she says one December afternoon. “I have s...