Leemos por ahí: "That Gentleman evokes the pensive mood and quality of repose that are hallmarks of Andrew Wyeth's best work. The artist's model was Tom Clark, a fellow resident of Chester County, Pennsylvania. Impressed with his sitter's demeanor, Wyeth wrote: "His voice is gentle, his wit keen, and his wisdom enormous. He is not a character, but a very dignified gentleman who might otherwise have gone unrecorded." In another description, Wyeth offered another level of significance to the painting's title: “Tom Clark went about the business of living in a very orderly way. He would prepare his vegetables with a deft grace, mend his clothes with care, lift the lid of a kettle seconds before it would boil over, keep his wood stove just the right temperature, place his slippers on a newspaper so as not to soil the table top. This tall, thin gentleman always referred to objects—whether a potato, an annoying fly buzzing overhead, or a car passing by—as ‘that gentleman.’”
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