Andrew Wyeth

The woman is Christina Olson, Wyeth's neighbor in Cushing, Maine. Christina's World was painted in 1948 in egg tempera and is now one of the best-known works in the Museum of Modern Art's collection.

Wyeth worked for decades around Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and Cushing, Maine. Those two places supplied many of his barns, fields, interiors, neighbors, and coastal scenes.

The Helga Pictures are a large group of drawings and paintings of Helga Testorf made between 1971 and 1985. Their public reveal drew major attention because many had been made privately over more than a decade.

No, Wyeth was an American realist painter, although his spare compositions can feel psychologically strange or symbolic. He often used tempera and watercolor rather than the large abstract canvases associated with mid-century New York painting.