It appears Andrew's sons used the unfinished painting as a train layout.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/wyeth.html?c=y&page=3

Pieter E. Roos

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www.geocities.com/pieter_roos/pieter_1.html

--- On Tue, 1/20/09, nmueller4 <[email protected]> wrote:
From: nmueller4 <[email protected]>
Subject: {S-Scale List} [TAN] Andrew Wyeth
To: [email protected]
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 8:34 PM

The artist Andrew Wyeth passed away a few days ago.  One of his 
paintings, entitled "Soaring," is at the Shelbourne Museum in Vermont

(where I understand there is an S-scale layout, which somehow I missed 
in my visit there).  The 1942 tempera painting depicts birds encircling 
a house far below.  It is said to represent the aerial attacks on 
civilian areas that were occurring in Europe at the time. 

Andrew's father, the artist N C Wyeth, didn't think much of his
son's 
effort.  Instead, he flipped over the 48" x 87" work and used it as a

model train layout.




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