The Helga Pictures

"[6] Born in East Prussia, Helga entered a Prussian Protestant convent chosen by her father in 1955.

[3] There she raised a family of four children,[7] and acted as caretaker to farmer Karl Kuerner, an elderly neighbor who was a friend and model for Wyeth.

"[9] He described his attraction to "all her German qualities, her strong, determined stride, that Loden coat, the braided blond hair".

[1] For art critic James Gardner, Testorf "has the curious distinction of being the last person to be made famous by a painting".

[9] When the existence of the pictures was made public images of Testorf graced the covers of both Time and Newsweek magazines.

[15] The show was "lambasted" as an "absurd error" by John Russell and an "essentially tasteless endeavor" by Jack Flam, coming to be viewed by some people as "a traumatic event for the museum.

"[17] The tour was criticized after the fact because, after it ended, Andrews sold the entire cache to a Japanese company, a transaction characterized by Christopher Benfey as "crass.