This lavish volume reproduces 138 tempera, drybrush, and watercolor paintings and pencil studies by Andrew Wyeth. It is the most comprehensive retrospective of the artist's work ever produced and is now available in paperback. What makes this book truly extraordinary are Wyeth's comments about each painting — an autobiography, told through interviews with Thomas Hoving, that offers fascinating, sometimes unexpected, facts about Wyeth's life and art. As Hoving writes in his introduction, Wyeth, in essence, has always painted for himself. This beautifully printed, elegantly designed book reveals that self as never before — and will make a resplendent gift for Wyeth's many admirers.