Anna Brelsford McCoy (born 1940) is an American artist. While she is clearly of the

Brandywine School The Brandywine School was a style of illustration—as well as an artists colony in Wilmington, Delaware and in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, near the Brandywine River—both founded by artist Howard Pyle (1853–1911) at the end of the 19th centu ...

of art, she has developed her own distinctive style.

Biography

McCoy's mother was

Ann Wyeth McCoy American composer, pianist and painter Ann Wyeth McCoy (March 15, 1915 - November 10, 2005) was the youngest daughter of artist-illustrator N. C. Wyeth, N.C. Wyeth and the fourth of his five children. She was born in Chadds Ford Historic District, ...

, the youngest daughter of the illustrator

N. C. Wyeth Newell Convers Wyeth (October 22, 1882 – October 19, 1945), known as N. C. Wyeth, was an American painter and illustrator. He was the pupil of Howard Pyle and became one of America's most well-known illustrators. Wyeth created more than 3,000 ...

who was closely tied to the Brandywine School approach to art. Her father was John W. McCoy, a student of N. C. Wyeth and son of a vice president of the

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. When McCoy was still a child, she decided she wanted to be a portrait artist. McCoy began studying art with her aunt,

Carolyn Wyeth Carolyn Wyeth ( ; 1909–1994), daughter of N.C. Wyeth and sister of Andrew Wyeth, was a well-known artist in her own right. Her hometown was Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. She worked and taught out of N. C. Wyeth House and Studio. Her nephew, Jamie ...

, at the age of fourteen. She also studied with Charles Vinson. Her uncle

Andrew Wyeth Andrew Newell Wyeth ( ; July 12, 1917 – January 16, 2009) was an American visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. He was one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century. In his ...

and his son and her cousin,

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, loomed large in the School. McCoy graduated from

Bennett College Bennett College is a private historically black liberal arts college for women in Greensboro, North Carolina. It was founded in 1873 as a normal school to educate freedmen and train both men and women as teachers. Originally coed, in 1926 it ...

in 1960 with a bachelor of arts degree. Instead of attending the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, she got married. She married Frolic Weymouth and they stayed married for 18 years until their divorce in 1979. While she was married, she didn't paint very much and didn't start painting again until 1980. McCoy is the author of the book, ''John W. McCoy, American Painter''. McCoy lives in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and "paints what she likes." She also spends time in

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. She is known for her

portrait A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this r ...

work, as well as

landscapes A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or man-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes the p ...

and still lifes.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:McCoy, Anna Brelsford 1940 births Living people 20th-century American painters 20th-century American women painters American biographers Bennett College (New York) alumni Painters from Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni Wyeth family People from Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania Artists from Delaware County, Pennsylvania