6/24/2023 0 Comments Andrew wyeth helga paintings![]() (Helga's husband, John, was reportedly out of the country when the news broke and only found out when he saw the TIME cover.) The Wyeths famously keep their private lives private, but it doesn’t take much to imagine what the reaction would have been. Two hundred and forty works in watercolor and tempera later, Wyeth decided to reveal his series to the world, starting with his wife, Betsy. Amazingly, only Wyeth and his model knew. ![]() Wyeth painted Helga every way imaginable in every type of light, examining the way light played on her clothed and unclothed form both indoors and in the great outdoors. ![]() ![]() Between 19, Andrew Wyeth had secretly painted Helga Testorf, a younger married woman who had been nursing his neighbor Karl Kuerner and then became Wyeth’s assistant and nurse. The Helga Pictures story had everything the media could ask for-celebrity, money, secrets revealed, and most of all sex, sex, sex (or at least the possibility of sex). ![]() Few art stories have captured the public imagination in America since. TIME Magazine graced its cover (above) with the face that launched a thousand speculations. It was 21 years ago that the secret of Andrew Wyeth’s Helga pictures was revealed to the world to great fanfare. ![]()
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