page_title: Andrew Wyeth
section_title: Honors and awards
hierarchical_section_title: Andrew Wyeth / Honors and awards
caption_attribution_description: Painter Andrew Wyeth receiving the National Medal of Arts from US President George W. Bush.
context_page_description: Andrew Newell Wyeth was a visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. He was one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century.
  In his art, Wyeth's favorite subjects were the land and people around him, both in his hometown of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and at his summer home in Cushing, Maine. Wyeth often said: "I paint my life." One of the best-known images in 20th-century American art is his painting Christina's World, currently in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. This work executed in tempera was painted in 1948 when Wyeth was 31 years old.
context_section_description: Wyeth was the recipient of numerous honors and awards:
  2007, the National Medal of Arts
  1988, the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor bestowed by the United States legislature
  1987, a D.F.A. from Bates College
  1980, the first living United States artist to be elected to Britain's Royal Academy
  1977, the first American artist since John Singer Sargent to be elected to the French Académie des Beaux-Arts
  1965, the gold medal for painting from the National Institute of Arts and Letters
  1963, the first painter to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom
  He also received numerous honorary degrees.
caption: Wyeth (right) receiving the National Medal of Arts from George W. Bush in 2007.
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