Andrew Wyeth's Last Painting Now Published

"Goodbye", Andrew Wyeth's last finished painting, has been published for the first time in the 2009 edition of Island Journal, the Island Institute's acclaimed annual magazine of island life.  This last tempera, completed in October, 2008, is the highlight of an extraordinary folio of Wyeth's Maine-island work featured in this year's expanded 25^th anniversary edition of Island Journal.  The folio is accompanied by an essay by Chris Crosman, former director of Rockland's Farnsworth Art Museum. 

The 2009 Island Journal is now available at Archipelago, the Institute's retail store at 386 Main Street in Rockland, Maine, or online at www.thearchipelago.net.  Island Institute members receive the magazine as part of their membership benefits, along with a subscription to The Working Waterfront and a 10% discount at Archipelago. 

Although Wyeth didn't live to see the 25^th anniversary of Island Journal, he would have undoubtedly perused it with the same sharp eye as he did the very first issue in 1984, one for which he and Betsy Wyeth provided inspiration and initial funding.  The Wyeths were also founding members of the Island Institute, a nonprofit organization that has worked for 26 years in partnership with Maine's year-round island and working-waterfront communities to ensure that they remain vibrant places to live and work. 

To become a member of the Island Institute, and receive your copy of the 2009 Island Journal, please click here. 

To purchase a copy of the 2009 Island Journal without becoming a member, please click here.