Michael Palin In Wyeth's World

Michael Palin heads for rural Pennsylvania and Maine to explore the extraordinary life and work of one of America's most popular and controversial painters, Andrew Wyeth.

7.3/10

2013

60 min

Documentary

Overview

Michael Palin heads for rural Pennsylvania and Maine to explore the extraordinary life and work of one of America's most popular and controversial painters, Andrew Wyeth. Fascinated by his iconic painting Christina's World, Palin goes in search of the real life stories that inspired this and Wyeth's other depictions of the American landscape and its hard grafting inhabitants. Tracking down the farmers, friends and family featured in Wyeth's magically real work, Palin builds a picture of an eccentric, enigmatic and driven painter. He also gets a rare interview with Helga, the woman who put Wyeth back in the headlines when the press discovered he had been painting her nude, compulsively but secretly for 15 years.

Watch Now

Michael Palin In Wyeth's World

Overview

More Like This

Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition

Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman

The Real Beauty and the Beast

Goya

Bloodlines: The Art and Life of Vincent Castiglia

Dancing the Nutcracker: Inside the Royal Ballet

National Gallery

Pyhä

What the Darkness Cannot Extinguish: The Storytelling Madness of Clifford George

FIT Hives: Sustainability - The Secret to Survival

Survival in Berlin-Neukölln

Costakis: The Collector

The Legend of Dolemite! Bigger & Badder

A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or: Surface Is Illusion But So Is Depth

Pablo Picasso et Françoise Gilot : la femme qui dit non

Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World

Liu Xiaodong: Hometown Boy

The Great Museum

Things That Go Bump in the Night: Tales of Haunted New England

Freeports: The Beauty Of Tax Free Storage