Andrew Wyeth - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz (a longtime admirer) often referred to Wyeth in his comic strip, Peanuts.
• Fred Rogers, of the PBS television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, had a reproduction of a Wyeth painting in the entry of the studio "home".
• Tom Duffield, the production designer for the American remake of The Ring (2002), was inspired by Wyeth's paintings for the look of the film.
• M. Night Shyamalan based his movie The Village (2004) on paintings by Andrew Wyeth.
• The director Philip Ridley stated that his film The Reflecting Skin (1990) is inspired in its visual style by the paintings of Wyeth.
• The Helga series of paintings was the inspiration for the 1987 album Man of Colours by the Australian band Icehouse.
• In the "Springfield Up," 2007 episode of The Simpsons, Mr. Burns has a painting of Christina's World in his den, except he is pictured instead.
• In his autobiography Man With A Camera, cinematographer Nestor Almendros cites Wyeth as one of the inspirations for the look of the film Days of Heaven.
• In the graphic novel series Preacher (comics), issue 43 is named after the painting of Christina's World The painting is also referenced throughout the series.
• The street names of the neighborhood of Thunder Hill, in the village of Oakland Mills in the city of Columbia, Maryland, are derived from the paintings of Wyeth.