By Tobias Carroll Some artists draw their inspiration from a person, an event or an entirely different work of art. For painter Andrew Wyeth, a pair of islands off the coast of Maine had a significant impact on his work. Allen and Benner Islands are located several miles out to sea, and over the course of several years in the 1970s and ’80s, Wyeth’s wife Betsy James Wyeth purchased both. Since her death in 2020, the question of what would be next for both islands has emerged. Now, as Hyperallergic reports, that question has an answer: Maine’s Colby College has purchased both islands from the U…