As Mr. Sanderson was a great friend of the Wyeth family, the museum has a number of works from N.C., Andrew and Jamie on display.

The Wyeth Center - which the museum opened in 1998 in a converted white clapboard church - is the repository for the Maine-related work of the Wyeth family.

Mr. Cawley is truly interested and passionate about the art and artists he collects - from works by the Wyeth family to many local artists.

The Wyeth family, especially Andrew, turned the rolling pastures of the Brandywine River Valley into an iconic American landscape.

A wall label explains that the airplane in the painting is used by the Wyeth family to commute between homes in Pennsylvania and Maine.

Most well known as a drummer for Bob Dylan, he was a member of the Wyeth family of American artists.

His mother Caroline Pyle was interested in the Wyeth family, flirted with some of them, and married Nathaniel C. Wyeth.

In December, a show of art by three generations of the Wyeth family, now in the Soviet Union, is to open at the Terra.

"Sunday Morning" has done entire programs on art and the Wyeth family; on Vladimir Horowitz's triumphant return to the Soviet Union; on Picasso.

Since it is one of eight privately held lights in Maine, although owned by the Wyeth family, it does not have the benefit of a local support group.