![]() ![]() She never mentioned her infirmities until she needed a wheelchair. "But she had such strength of character, that you came back. In 1982, Betsy told The News Journal it was tempting to feel sorry for Olson. It remains one of the best-known paintings of the middle 20th century by an American artist. It showed the woman, unable to walk due to a degenerative muscular disorder, lying in a field looking up at a house and barn. While Betsy had a strong hand and influence on her husband's career, she also introduced him to Christina Olson, memorialized in Wyeth's famed piece "Christina's World." "I'm a director and I had the greatest actor in the world," she was quoted as saying in the New York Times' Andrew Wyeth obituary. The cause of death was not immediately released.īetsy first met Andrew in 1939 in Maine and within a year, the pair were married, with Betsy becoming his business manager, a role she kept until his death at the age of 91. ![]() Watch Video: Brandywine River Museum of Art acquires 3 Wyeth family paintingsīetsy Wyeth, the longtime wife of famed realist painter Andrew Wyeth until his 2009 death, died Tuesday at the age of 98. ![]()
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