![]() Though Colby College has taken over the islands, the school doesn’t seem like it will necessarily look to become stewards of Wyeth’s legacy, which has recently been criticized. ![]() ![]() “My mother really did not want the islands to be a museum,” Jamie Wyeth told the New York Times. The school is still working out how else it might make use of the two islands to preserve what is there and how best to create additional educational amenities for its students. With its two new islands, Colby College plans to build an interdisciplinary study center there that could be used for ecological and scientific research projects. On the two islands, she restored some of their vernacular architecture, designed her own buildings, and built a commercial-size dock for lobstering crews to use. And in 1990, she bought Benner, a smaller island next to Allen. ![]() Robinson West, president of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, told the Times.īetsy James Wyeth, Andrew’s wife who died in 2020 at 98, purchased Allen Island in 1979 at the suggestion of the couple’s youngest son, artist Jamie Wyeth. “We could have held onto the islands, but to see them frozen in amber would be a tragedy,” J. Emphasis on the Magic: A Wyeth Retropective ![]()
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