14 Facts About Betsy Wyeth

Betsy James Wyeth was an author and art collector.

Betsy Wyeth was the business manager and archivist of her husband, artist Andrew Wyeth.

Betsy Wyeth was the youngest of three daughters born to Elizabeth Browning, a graduate of Cornell and teacher of Latin, and Merle Davis James, an artist and printer.

Betsy Wyeth attended Colby Junior College, before transferring to the University of Chicago, where she studied archaeology.

Betsy Wyeth became her husband's business manager, negotiating commissions, organizing shows, and maintaining his catalogue raisonne.

Betsy Wyeth described her role as like that of a film director.

Betsy Wyeth regularly modelled for her husband, and was the subject of the portrait Maga's Daughter.

Betsy Wyeth wrote two books on Andrew Wyeth's work: Wyeth at Kuerners, and Christina's World, and assisted in the 1995 documentary Andrew Wyeth Self Portrait: Snow Hill.

Betsy Wyeth was a defender and restorer of the Brandywine region's vernacular architecture.

Betsy Wyeth helped to save a 19th-century gristmill by encouraging a neighbour, George Weymouth, to buy it and turn it into a museum.

Betsy Wyeth restored the old mill complex on the Brandywine River which became the couple's home and studio.

Betsy Wyeth had it put back together on one of the three islands, as a birthday gift for her husband.

Betsy Wyeth was a founding member of the Chadds Ford Historical Society, and a driving force in the creation of Island Journal.

Betsy Wyeth died aged 98 on 21 April 2020 at her home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.