Andrew Wyeth

“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.”

Andrew Wyeth

This is why Doug loves Andrew Wyeth's paintings so much. Doug loves any movie or story that is set in winter - stark, cold - not lush and green. When we start a movie, in the theatre or at home, if it's cold he'll say, "I love a movie that's set in winter." A Simple Plan, Fargo, Affliction. There are many, but those come to mind at this hour.

I don't mean that any movie set in a cold climate is a great movie to him, nor does he dislike movies where climate isn't a factor or where it's warm or what-have-you... It's just that he particularly likes what happens when there's shivering and snow and wind. And a starkness to the landscape. I think he likes what Andrew Wyeth likes. The thing beneath and the promise of what's coming but isn't visible. And that idea that the whole story doesn't show.

Goodbye to Andrew Wyeth, whose art is loved by us.