Andrew Newell Wyeth  (July 12, 1917 – January 16, 2009) was an American visual artist and one of the best-known American artists of the middle 20th century. Though he considered himself to be an "abstractionist," Wyeth was primarily a realist painter who worked in a regionalist style, often painting the land and people of his hometown in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and his summer home in Cushing, Maine.

Wyeth was the recipient of numerous honors and awards:

• 1947, the gold medal for painting from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• 1960, elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1963, the first painter to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom
• 1967, elected to the American Philosophical Society
• 1977, the first American artist since John Singer Sargent to be elected to the French Académie des Beaux-Arts
• 1980, the first living United States artist to be elected to Britain's Royal Academy
• 1987, a D.F.A. from Bates College
• 1988, the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor bestowed by the United States legislature
• 2007, the National Medal of Arts