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Andrew Wyeth

1917 to 2009 4 documented presences 4 places

Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Andrew Wyeth across 4 places, from 1947 to 2009. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Andrew Newell Wyeth (July 12, 1917 – January 16, 2009) was an American visual artist and one of the best-known American artists of the middle 20th century.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Andrew Wyeth was documented, and when

1947 to 1987period
American Academy of Arts and Sciencesattested “Wyeth was the recipient of numerous honors and awards: * 1947, the gold medal for painting from the American Academy of Arts and Letters * 1960, elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences * 1963, the first painter to receive th…” source: Wikipedia: Andrew Wyeth
1947 to 1987period
American Philosophical Societyattested “Wyeth was the recipient of numerous honors and awards: * 1947, the gold medal for painting from the American Academy of Arts and Letters * 1960, elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences * 1963, the first painter to receive th…” source: Wikipedia: Andrew Wyeth
16 January 2009exact date
Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvaniaattested “On January 16, 2009, Andrew Wyeth died in his sleep in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, after a brief illness.” source: Wikipedia: Andrew Wyeth
16 January 2009exact date
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvaniaattested “On January 16, 2009, Andrew Wyeth died in his sleep in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, after a brief illness.” source: Wikipedia: Andrew Wyeth

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Places Andrew Wyeth is documented in

American Academy of Arts and Sciences1 presence · 1947American Philosophical Society1 presence · 1947
Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania1 presence · 2009
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania1 presence · 2009

Other places tied to Andrew Wyeth in the record

In each of these, a source puts Andrew Wyeth and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Andrew Wyeth was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.

1937year
New York Citymentioned “In 1937, at age twenty, Wyeth had his first one-man exhibition of watercolors at the Macbeth Gallery in New York City.” source: Wikipedia: Andrew Wyeth
1937year
Macbeth Gallerymentioned “In 1937, at age twenty, Wyeth had his first one-man exhibition of watercolors at the Macbeth Gallery in New York City.” source: Wikipedia: Andrew Wyeth
15 May 1940exact date
Mainementioned “On May 15, 1940, Wyeth married Betsy James, whom he met in 1939 in Maine.” source: Wikipedia: Andrew Wyeth
1948year
Cushing, Mainementioned “It was at the Olson farm in Cushing, Maine, that he painted Christina's World (1948).” source: Wikipedia: Andrew Wyeth
1948year
Olson House (Cushing, Maine)mentioned “It was at the Olson farm in Cushing, Maine, that he painted Christina's World (1948).” source: Wikipedia: Andrew Wyeth
1957year
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvaniamentioned “It just excited me, purely abstractly and purely emotionally." Brown Swiss (1957, private collection) is one of many paintings that he made from the 1950s to the 1970s of Karl and Anna Kuerner's farm in Chadds Ford.” source: Wikipedia: Andrew Wyeth
1974year
German Church and Cemeterymentioned “Maidenhair (1974, Andrew and Betsy Wyeth collection), a tempera painting of a lone female figure sitting in a church pew at the Old German Meeting House in Waldoboro, Maine.” source: Wikipedia: Andrew Wyeth
1974year
Waldoboromentioned “Maidenhair (1974, Andrew and Betsy Wyeth collection), a tempera painting of a lone female figure sitting in a church pew at the Old German Meeting House in Waldoboro, Maine.” source: Wikipedia: Andrew Wyeth
1988 to 2007period
Bates Collegementioned “from Bates College * 1988, the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor bestowed by the United States legislature * 2007, the National Medal of Arts He also received numerous honorary degrees.” source: Wikipedia: Andrew Wyeth

Documented at the same place, the same year

David RockefellerHarvard University · 1947Kurt LewinHarvard University · 1947Alfred North WhiteheadHarvard University · 1947Erwin PanofskyHarvard University · 1947Georg von BékésyHarvard University · 1947Qian XuesenHarvard University · 1947Léon BrillouinHarvard University · 1947

Two people documented in the same place in the same year is a correlation, not a meeting. Quo Fuit will never say they met without a source that says so.

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Sources

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