The modern gallery spaces feature a slew of notable American artists like Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent, Andrew Wyeth and Winslow Homer (a Mainer).

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Other revealing juxtapositions here display works by Arpita Singh (b. 1937) and Marc Chagall, as well as Bikash Bhattacharjee (1940-2006) and Andrew Wyeth.

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In 1986, it was revealed that artist Andrew Wyeth had, over a 15-year period, secretly created 240 drawings and paintings of a woman named Helga Testorf, a neighbor in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.

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