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The Lovely Bones of Helga « The Thinking Housewife
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The Lovely Bones of Helga

January 29, 2010

 

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In the ongoing discussion on idealized feminine beauty, one reader recommends the famous Helga paintings by Andrew Wyeth. Above is his painting Cape Coat.

Wyeth said:

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure in the landscape – the loneliness of it – the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it – the whole story doesn’t show.

 

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