Stories of her grandfather

In Maine Magazine, freelance writer Mercedes Grandin ’03 describes the tours that Victoria Wyeth ’01 leads at Rockland’s Farnsworth Art Museum, where she gives an insider’s perspective on the works of her late grandfather, Andrew Wyeth. “I admire my grandfather most for not giving in to the standards of the times or what the art world wanted,” Wyeth tells Grandin, referencing Andrew’s drive to paint the familiar, human and everyday world. “People connect with his work, because the stories he tells are deeply personal.” (View Text)