Tempera was a primary medium for artistic expression in Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries. Milk and Eggs examines the American re-emergence of tempera painting in the mid-20th century. It experienced a renaissance in the work of a large number of mostly unconnected American artists, including Thomas Hart Benton, Paul Cadmus, Jacob Lawrence, and Andrew Wyeth among others. 
Milk and Eggs focuses on four centers where tempera painting was revived--Yale University School of Art, the Art Students League of New York, the studio of N. C. Wyeth in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and the Kansas City Art Institute--and the historical, cultural, and philosophical factors that drove the revival, including the Great Depression and the Works Progress Administration. It also examines the medium in great detail, its materials and preparation, and arrives at a definition of tempera. Moreover, the results of extensive analysis of certain works of art is included.

Milk and Eggs: The American Revival of Tempera Painting, 1930-1950

Arts & Photography

Newman, Richard

Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art

Brandywine River Museum

Akron Art Museum

History & Criticism

Andrew Wyeth: Master Drawings from the Artist's Collection

This book presents drawings that Andrew Wyeth retained for his own collection -- many preliminary to well-known paintings. Created over more than five decades, from 1951 to 2005, they range from portraits of family members and friends to vibrant depictions of objects, landscapes, and buildings in and around the artist's homes in Pennsylvania and Maine. These works reflect the insight, emotion, and technique that are uniquely his. They demonstrate Wyeth's extraordinary skill as a draftsman and the accuracy with which he sees light and dark, enabling him to model forms while suggesting the very substance and texture of what he sees. "I have always been powerfully affected by Andrew Wyeth's drawings and studies -- particularly those studies that do not attempt to cover the whole surface of the paper but instead focus on a few elements, so that the image seems to emerge magically from the empty white background, rather like a photograph that we observe in the process of development." -- Henry Adams

ADAMS, HENRY

Wyeth, Andrew

2 essays by Howard P. Brokaw: "Howard Pyle-A Life in Illustration" and "How and Why We Collected." Extensively illustrated with prints, sketches and paintings. Checklist of exhibition. 136p. Howard Pyle (1853-1911) was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people.

History and Romance: Works By Howard Pyle From the Brokaw Family Collection

Howard P Brokaw

Softcover book of works by Jamie Wyeth, dealing with canines. Dogs are a favored subject of Wyeth, and this collection of his canine works will inspire and amuse.

Dog Days

Wyeth, Jamie

Jerry Pinkney: Aesop's Fables and Other Tails

Pinkney, Jerry

The Wyeths: The Letters of N.C. Wyeth, 1901-1945

N.C.Wyeth

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pa., June 11-Sept. 11, 2011.

Farm Work

Andrew Wyeth's Ides of March: The Making of a Masterpiece

Virginia O'Hara

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