Prior to the 1960s, Andrew Wyeth enjoyed a stellar reputation as a rising star in the art world. Since then, critics and scholars have largely ignored him. Wyeth, however, continued to paint, to the delight of his admirers, collectors, and the art-loving public.

Now, in association with the High Museum exhibition, Andrew Wyeth: Memory and Magic takes a fresh look at the work of one of America's most beloved artists. In examining his entire oeuvre, the book celebrates the artist's love affair with everyday life — domestic, natural, and architectural. Found throughout Wyeth's work, these objects form patterns that illuminate core themes and reveal the artist wrestling with issues of memory, temporality, embodiment, and the metaphysical.

Organized chronologically and thematically, the book explores how the artist's approach to these subjects was formed in his early career, and was revisited in new and surprising ways in his later years.

Andrew Wyeth: Memory and Magic comprises 150 tempera paintings and 50 drawings and watercolors, including his most-famous works, but also many published here for the first time.

Anne Knutson is Guest Curator for the exhibition Andrew Wyeth: Memory and Magic. Kathleen A. Foster is the Robert L. McNeill, Jr. Curator of American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Michael R. Taylor is Associate Curator and Acting Head of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Christopher Crosman is Director of the William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum in Rockland, Maine. John Wilmerding is the Christopher B. Sarofim Professor of American Art at Princeton University.

Author — Anne Knutson, Kathleen A. Foster, Michael R. Taylor, Christopher Crosman, and John Wilmerding.

Hardcover. 224 pages. 9¾" × 11¼".