Andrew Wyeth passed Away on the 15th

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The American painter perhaps best known for his painting of a young woman in a field, "Christina's World," has died, according to an official with the Brandywine River Museum in Pennsylvania.

Andrew Wyeth received the National Medal of Arts from President Bush in November 2007.

Wyeth, 91, died in his sleep Thursday night at his home near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, according to Lora Englehart, public relations coordinator for the museum.

The acclaimed artist painted landscapes and figure subjects and worked mostly in tempera and watercolor.

He was widely celebrated inside and outside of the art world.

Wyeth received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Kennedy in 1963, and President Nixon sponsored an exhibition of Wyeth's paintings at the White House.

In 2007, President Bush awarded Wyeth the National Medal of Arts in recognition of his lifetime achievement and contribution to American arts and culture.

Two years earlier, Wyeth and his wife, Betsy, presented to the White House his painting "Jupiter," which is displayed in the residence's family sitting room.

Bush issued a statement Friday saying that he and first lady Laura Bush "deeply mourn" the death of Wyatt.


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"Mr. Wyeth captured America in his paintings of his native Pennsylvania and Maine," Bush said. "On behalf of the American people, Laura and I offer our sincere condolences to Betsy and the Wyeth family."


Wyeth, who lived in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and Maine, "has been enormously popular and critically acclaimed since his first one-man show in 1937," according to a biography in InfoPlease.

His main subjects were the places and people of Chadds Ford and Cushing, Maine.

"Christina's World," painted in 1948, shows a disabled Maine neighbor who drags herself through a field toward her house in the distance. The painting, displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, has been regarded as Wyeth's most popular.

"His 'Helga' pictures, a large group of intimate portraits of a neighbor, painted over many years, were first shown publicly in 1986," the InfoPlease biography says. Those were painted in Pennsylvania.

Wyeth, the youngest child of painter N.C. Wyeth, formally studied art with his father as a teen, "drawing in charcoal and painting in oils, the media of choice for N.C. Wyeth. It was during the family's annual summer vacations in Port Clyde, Maine, that Andrew was able to experiment with other media to find his own artistic voice," according to a biography in the Farnsworth Art Museum in Maine.



http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/16/andrew.wyeth.obit/index.html


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The Bush is almost Cleared!

Ranting in a House of Cards

There is a rumor that Caroline Kennedy is promising that Obama will Campaign For Governor Paterson if she manages to get the senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton. This would be a pay to play scheme. What is going on now is really frightening and this political posturing contributes to the uncertainness here in New York. Things will get much worse. This recession and possible depression is rooted in NY. Because it's just the beginning of the melt down of the American financial system, no one is looking at the big picture they are all selfishly focused only on their own piece of the crossword puzzle. Things are going to get much worse before they get better. New York State is the epicentre of this because of it being the country's financial heart. I am so apposed to Caroline Kennedy demanding and getting Clintons Senate seat because she is exactly the kind of politician who can't help us here in NY. Just the fact Kennedy is Bloomberg's buddy makes me ill. Bloomberg knew all about Bernard Madoff. These connections could bring Obama down before he even gets started. The former chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Market was Madoff. Bloomberg knew what Bernie was doing was shaky at best. Bloomberg is the kind of politician I can do without. He changed parties just to get elected just for starts. Then after supporting term limits he reversed and now wants to run again for Mayor of NYC! Caroline is very very tight with Bloomberg. I don't like the smell of any of it. The whole house of cards is going to come down. We have only seen the tip of the iceberg. I do not want a senator that is connected to Bloomberg. No one would have said a thing about the process in NY state of replacing Hillary had Caroline not tried to make us except her and started throwing her family name around like a shot put. She knows what she is doing is wrong but she is doing it anyway. If she gets this seat it will be like a neo-con move. It makes every fiber of my Democratic body revolt.

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The deep freeze is moving east. We have about 18 inches of snow and more is falling currently. The birds that come to our feeders ate 5 pounds of seed and much suet just since dawn. Tonight they say it will get down to 6F. I just came in with four loads of firewood so its nice and dry for stoking the fire tonight. I was thinking today how this weather could be used as an analogy for what is going on right now in America.

Indeed it is time to make ready for heavy weather in the economy and in public life. The summer is over and we are now in late autumn. As we see winter coming many know they did not take care to put away stores for the winter. When the sun shone brightly and the breeze was balmy they could not think of what would soon come. Like small children living only in the present they thought the warmth and plenty would be forever and ever. Animals put on fat for winter and store up food for the bad weather. They look for shelter to protect them from the coming cold. It is almost Biblical how America created this current crisis thinking summer would last forever. Even those with great wealth put very little by to get through hard times. Since the seventies when I was a teen it seems people always believed the hard times were behind us and that things would only get better. Now we see what can happen. Our parents and grandparents suffered through world wars and the great depression. They were made strong by having to work hard and struggle. They valued all that they had and did not waste. But the boomers and the boomers children were born in a time of plenty and they did not heed the lessons the children of the great depression tried to pass on. They said their parents were backwards and gloomy. The arrogance is incredible. Almost no one saved and they spent all they had and mortgaged their futures and for what? What they did was borrow on their children's future and they brought this country and the world to its knees.

Hosea 8
King James Bible

1. Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.

2. Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.

3. Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.

4. They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.

5. Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?

6. For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

7. For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

8. Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.

9. For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

10. Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.

11. Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.

12. I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.

13. They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

14. For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

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