Multi-media artist Katee Boyle, whose works are currently on display at The Art Trust in West Chester, was inspired by N.C. Wyeth to start creating art herself, writes Richard Gaw for the Chester County Press. 

When she was growing up in Chadds Ford, Boyle befriended Margaret Hoffman, a neighbor who was 70 years her senior. She soon found out that Hoffman owned “A Thief’s Daughter,” an N.C. Wyeth painting that the artist had given to her. The work, which was later donated to Brandywine River Museum of Art, shows a young woman who is preparing opium in front of three men and her father. 

“N.C. Wyeth is the reason I became an artist, and if I could drill it down to one influence, it would be this painting that I would get to know intimately over the 18 years I lived alongside Mrs. Hoffman,” said Boyle. “I understood that this was a story that N.C. Wyeth was telling, and that his illustrations were all a frozen moment in time.” 

Boyle has made a name for herself in the Chester County region and beyond, and she has hopes of displaying her work in museums either as a collection or individual installation.

Read more about Katee Boyle in the Chester County Press. 

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