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a href= http://www.brandywine.org target= _blank The Brandywine River Museum of Art /a announced today the appointment of William L. Coleman, Ph.D

A new exhibition at the a href= https://museum.colby.edu/ target= _blank Colby College Museum of Art /a , Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death, offers the

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A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself . . .—E. M. CioranWHEN DO YOU STOP MOURNING a casualty of art? Some never do. Recall Dostoevsky, driven to the verge of an epileptic attack by Holbein’s supine, open-eyed Christ, or the men who, so moved by the excavated Laocoön and His Sons, began to writhe in imitation of the marble serpents and their prey. Here we have Oscar Wilde on a suicide in Balzac: “One of the greatest tragedies of my life is the death of Lucien de Rubempré. It is a grief from which I have never been able completely to rid myself. It haunts me in my moment...

Life and Death shows the artist engaging with his own mortality A new exhibition in Waterville, Maine, at the Colby College Museum of Art, Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death, offers the first public presentation of a recently rediscovered series of drawings in which the artist Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) imagined his own funeral. Created in the early 1990s, the drawings, now known collectively as the Funeral Group, depict Wyeth’s friends, neighbors, and wife, Betsy, surrounding a coffin at the ...