American realist painter Andrew Wyeth passed away Friday morning. The youngest son of artist N.C. Wyeth’s five children, Andrew was a loner whose melancholic landscapes and portraits provoked a radical separation in his following. In 1977, he was nominated as the most underrated, and overrated, artists of his century. Such a division in popularity is more than a bit terrifying. While I’m not always the biggest fan of realism, the portraits of his mistress Helga have a sense of mystery and darkness that I can’t deny loving. R.I.P Andrew.