Wyeth painting caught in battle over Cushing church ownership

Wyeth painting caught in battle over Cushing church ownership

One of the most valuable assets of the Broad Cove Church, which is fighting to keep ownership of its property in Cushing, is a painting done nearly 60 years ago by famed artist Andrew Wyeth. That painting, a watercolor, is now part of the legal battle between the 170-year-old independent church and an international religious order, the New England Annual Conference of United Methodist Church Inc. But despite the Wyeth name on the piece, Broad Co…