
Betsy James Wyeth was Andrew Wyeth’s partner in life and in art, and a creative force in her own right. The collection of her husband’s work that she formed and documented with the highest professional archival standards and an early adoption of digital cataloguing strategies includes the full range of one of the defining artistic legacies of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from the most preliminary studies that offer a rare glimpse into creative process to masterpieces of the watercolor and egg tempera media for which he is best known. Like Wyeth’s practice, the collection is nearly equally divided between Pennsylvania and Maine subjects; artworks are generally housed at the Wyeth Study Center office in their state of creation. Migration from a proprietary internal database to a web-integrated standard format is underway, until which time reference questions should be directed to [email protected] Loan requests are welcomed and the standards of the American Alliance of Museums are followed in evaluating such requests.