CHADDS FORD, Pa. (AP) — George Weymouth, a conservationist and artist who for years helped hide a secret cache of Andrew Wyeth’s “Helga” portraits, has died.
The Brandywine Conservancy and Museum of Art says he died April 24 at his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. He was 79.
Weymouth opened the Brandywine River Museum of Art in 1971 in a converted gristmill as a place to display the works of his lifelong friend Andrew Wyeth.
Nicknamed “Frolic,” Weymouth met Wyeth as a teenager, and the elder artist became Weymouth’s lifelong friend and mentor, teaching him how to paint with tempura.
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