The art in Wondrous Strange - by three generations of the Wyeth family, as well as the great turn of the century illustrator, Howard Pyle, who started it all - has an undercurrent of wonder and mystery, a fascination with the darker and more awesome aspects of the human experience. The paintings have elements of the gothic, of Edgar Allen Poe, touching upon the fantastic and macabre. The selection of paintings shows the thread that links the four artisits - an imaginative, often disquieting, dream like imagery.
