![]() ![]() Some of the voices you’ll hear in this episode include Doug McGill, former New York Times reporter Neil Harris, author of Capital Culture: J. Was it a genuine sex scandal? A hoax? Or something else entirely? In this episode, we examine this 35-year old media story to try and detangle some of these questions. The implication of these paintings were clear: Wyeth must have been having an affair. This collection, called The Helga Pictures, had been completed for over 15 years and hidden from his wife, until they were revealed and wound up on the covers of both Time Magazine and Newsweek. And then he revealed a secret cache of 240 pieces of artwork, many provocative, all featuring the same nude female model. ![]() He was a household name, on the cover of magazines, and tapped to paint presidents. In 1986, Andrew Wyeth was the most famous painter in America. ![]()
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