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Exhibits revisit, reprise works of Andrew Wyeth

By Cate McQuaid

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  April 17, 2012

The people in many of Andrew Wyeth’s paintings look away. We see their backs, the edges of their faces. We cannot look in their eyes. They are small and solitary, and the world beyond them vast and somehow unreachable. You can see it in “Chambered Nautilus,’’ one of a handful of Wyeth's exquisite, gritty tempera paintings in a penetrating show, “Andrew Wyeth: Looking Beyond,’’ now at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. The painting, made in 1956, depicts his mother-in-law, Bess James, confined to her bed.

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