![]() ![]() ![]() The hunter himself is not even the center of the composition that honor is reserved for the sinuous trunk and branches of the towering buttonwood tree, believed to be a giant specimen that towers over Lafayette's Headquarters at the Brandywine Battlefield Historic Site in Chadd's Ford, Pennsylvania, near Wyeth's home. The viewer is high in the tree, peering through the sparse fall leaves at the red-capped hunter moving through the tall grass. ![]() In The Hunter, painted as an illustration for the cover of The Saturday Evening Post and the work that brought the artist to national attention, Wyeth used a startling and unusual point of view-that of the hunted bird-to give this otherwise ordinary scene of a hunter in a fall landscape a heightened sense of drama. Andrew Newell Wyeth (American, 1917-2009), The Hunter. ![]()
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