Helga Testorf is considered to be the last unknown person made famous by a painting. Testorf was Andrew Wyeth’s model from 1971 to 1985, during which time Wyeth secretly made over 240 paintings of her ...

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It was one of the biggest art bombshells of the 20th century. Andrew Wyeth, the celebrated American painter, revealed in 1985 that he had clandestinely created more than 240 paintings and drawings of ...

Painter Deirdre White was given the task of selecting a famous woman from the Delaware Valley for Philadelphia Stories, a literary magazine. The project consisted of selecting the woman and then ...

Thirty years have passed since one of the splashiest publicity coups ever made by a painter, when Andrew Wyeth’s stash of drawings and paintings of model Helga Testorf hit the covers of Time and ...

Andrew Wyeth was known for painting subjects that he knew well, most notably his female models — Christina Olson, Siri Erickson and Helga Testorf. ‘It wasn’t unusual for Wyeth to become obsessed with ...

Andrew Wyeth, who turns 80 on July 12, is a living legend, one of America’s best loved and best known painters. For decades Wyeth popularized the people and landscapes around his rural home in Chadds ...

One of his paintings sold for more than $100 million years after his death. She escaped Nazi Germany via a Kindertransport train as a young girl with her older sister. He secretly created more than ...

In January of this year the great, yet oft-criticized, American painter Andrew Wyeth died at the age of 91. Wyeth, best known for his paintings of life in rural Maine and Pennsylvania, established a ...

CHADDS FORD, Pa. — George Weymouth, a museum founder, conservationist and artist who for years helped hide a secret cache of Andrew Wyeth’s “Helga” portraits, has died. Weymouth died April 24 at his ...

Helga, Andrew Wyeth’s mystery model, has been identified by neighbors as Helga Testorf, a middle-aged wife and mother of four who lives with her husband, John, on a secluded property called Zum ...

Andrew Wyeth’s storied collection of 240 images of neighbor Helga Testorf has been sold to an American buyer and is no longer in the custody of the Brandywine River Museum in suburban Philadelphia.