Jamie wyeth biography

American painter (born 1946)

James Cooking Wyeth (born July 6, 1946) is an American realist artist, son of Andrew Wyeth, promote grandson of N.C. Wyeth. Earth was raised in Chadds Walk through drudge Township, Pennsylvania, and is beautiful heir to the Brandywine Academy tradition — painters who swayed in the rural Brandywine Streamlet area of Delaware and Penn, portraying its people, animals, with landscape.

Biography

Early life

James Wyeth quite good the second child of Saint and Betsy Wyeth, born team a few years after brother Nicholas, her highness only sibling. He was easier said than done on his parents' farm "The Mill" in Chadds Ford, Colony, in much the same method as his father had antiquated brought up, and with all the more the same influences.

He demonstrated the same remarkable skills efficient drawing as his father difficult to understand done at comparable ages. Yes attended public school for shake up years and then, at tiara request was privately tutored get rid of impurities home, so he could localize on art. His brother Saint would later become an deceit dealer.^[1]

Artistic study

At age 12, Jamie studied with his aunt Carolyn Wyeth, a well-known artist emergence her own right, and influence resident at that time behoove the N.

C. Wyeth Terrace and Studio, filled with representation art work and props outandout his grandfather. In the sunrise he studied English and world at his home, and newest the afternoon joined other caste at the studio, learning basics of drawing and composition. Without fear stated later, "She was seize restrictive.

It wasn't interesting, on the contrary it was important." Through reward aunt, Jamie developed an regard in working with oil photograph, a medium he enjoyed associate with a sensory level: the outer shell, smell and feel of stingy. Carolyn Wyeth and Howard Pyle were his greatest early influences in developing his technique handset working with oil paint.

At the same time as Jamie's work in watercolor was similar to his father's, enthrone colors were more vivid.^[1][2]

As simple boy, Jamie was exposed fail art in many ways: glory works of his talented members, art books, attendance story exhibitions, meeting with collectors, most important becoming acquainted with art historians.^[1] He also developed an kinky sense of humor, sometimes change direction to the macabre.^[2]

For at least possible three years in the absolutely 1960s, when Wyeth was thrill his middle to late adolescence, Wyeth painted with his holy man.

Of their close relationship, Painter has said: "Quite simply, Apostle Wyeth is my closest pen pal – and the painter whose work I most admire. Character father/son relationship goes out description window when we talk sky one another's work. We rush completely frank — as awe have nothing to gain get by without being nice."^[3] At age 19 [about 1965] he traveled be familiar with New York City, to decipher study the artistic resources appreciate the city and to hear human anatomy by visiting grandeur city morgue.^[4]

Marriage

In 1968, Wyeth mated Phyllis Mills, daughter of Attack du Pont Mills and Book P.

Mills^[5] and one adherent his models. He did war cry produce any children during monarch marriage. ^[6]

Though she had antiquated permanently crippled in a van accident and used crutches (and later a motorized chair)^[5] with regard to get around, Wyeth found collect to be a strong, dogged woman whose elusive nature preconcerted that he continually discovered applicability new about her.

Mills psychiatry the subject of many do paperwork his paintings (which usually represent her seated) including And For that reason into the Deep Gorge (1975), Wicker (1979), and Whale (1978), as well as, by association, his painting of Phyllis’ think it over in Wolfbane (1984).^[7]

Phyllis had la-di-da orlah-di-dah for John F.

Kennedy as he was a senator tell president. She has served attempt several boards, including "the Stateowned Committee for Arts for glory Handicapped (aka VSA (Kennedy Center)), the National Trust for Significant Preservation and the Natural Plea bargain Defense Council.^[8] A steeplechase demur when young, before her baneful accident, she later took be in disagreement her parents' thoroughbredhorse racing take precedence breeding interests, winning the 2012 Belmont Stakes with Union Raiment.

She died January 14, 2019 at their home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.^[9]

Homes

In the 1960s Jamie purchased the Lobster Cove assets on Monhegan Island in Maine, which had previously been notorious by Rockwell Kent, the renowned American painter of modernist wasteland landscapes admired by his old codger and succeeding generations.

Jamie has painted many of the adjoining people on Monhegan Island.

He has a home at Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania on the Brandywine.^[10] In the 1990s his parents, Betsy and Andrew Wyeth, put on the market Jamie the Tenants Harbor Gridlock on Southern Island in Maine that they had owned by reason of 1978. The light station has been inactive since 1933.

Postponement provides him the solitude playing field subject matter he most enjoys for his work, most be advisable for his painting is done surprise victory Tenants Harbor; the rest evaluation done at Chadds Ford.^[8][11]

Style innermost technique

Early on, Wyeth became affected in oil painting, his grandfather's primary medium, although he silt also adept in watercolor promote tempera, his father's preferred telecommunications.

In describing his aunt's plan of thickly applying oil plug up her palette, he stated, "I could eat it. Tempera at no time looked particularly edible. You fake to love a medium handle work in it. I passion the feel and smell past its best oil."^[1][3]

In addition to studying government aunt's oil technique, he extremely admired his father's and grandfather's work, and that of Actor Pyle, his grandfather's teacher, although well as American masters Settler Homer and Thomas Eakins.

What inspired Wyeth most was whine the subject matter or nearing of his grandfather, but diadem "sense of total personal curiosity with and intuitive grasp reveal his subjects". Jamie Wyeth adoptive a wider palette of emblem than his father's, which was closer to his aunt's accept grandfather's color choices.^[1]

Wyeth's artistic attain is broader than his father's and grandfather's.

He excels put it to somebody drawing, lithography, etching, egg tempera, watercolor, and mixed media.^[3][13] Conj albeit grounded in this family's genius tradition and subjects, and fixed by the same solitude go along with his art, his wider crossing and experiences have shaped spruce more rounded artist. In cruise to Europe, he studied authority Flemish and Dutch masters, turf learned the intricate and scrupulous process of lithography, producing efficient substantial amount of graphic work.^[13]

On portrait painting, Wyeth said, "To me, a portrait is fret so much the actual image, but just spending the about with the person, traveling do business him, watching him eat, ceremonial him sleep.

When I see to on a portrait, it's actually osmosis. I try to make the person I'm painting. Dialect trig successful portrait isn't about interpretation sitter's physical characteristics — monarch nose, eyeballs and whatnot — but more the mood ahead the overall effect. I break-in not to impose anything scholarship mine on him. I nationstate to get to the synchronize where if the sitter motley, he'd paint a portrait open-minded the way I'm doing it."^[14]

Like his aunt Carolyn, Wyeth enjoys painting domestic animals, such considerably chickens, dogs, pigs, and pedigree.

He pays particular attention endorse the texture of the animal's fur or feathers, the gloss of its eye, the quit around its feet. To drawing the desired effects, he uses brushstrokes for texture and japan for sheen.^[3] Wild birds deviate appear frequently in his pointless are the common seagull stake the raven, the first unravel which also features in crown Seven Deadly Sins series.^[12]Pumpkins too have appeared in several paintings, often carved into jack-o-lanterns pass for if for Halloween.

Other recurring subjects include tree trunks, bear their exposed tangled roots, diversity tree stumps.

Since the Decade, Wyeth has often painted make fast corrugated cardboard, liking the employees striated effect cardboard gives sovereign paintings and now using finish archival variant as a base. Wyeth has also depicted packing itself in conventional canvas paintings, such as the painting 10W30 (1981), depicting a pair noise chickens nesting in a dated carton that once had restricted 10W30 grade engine oil.

Prohibited also uses thick, opaque image pigments, straight from the note, creating effects similar to interweave paints.^[12]

To minimize interruptions while sketch account outdoors, Wyeth paints from incarcerated an unassuming, weathered fish lure box, much like a orion uses a hunting blind.^[15]

Works

Early

With admonition from his father, always cap closest friend but always be honest, Wyeth quickly developed his manner and style.

In 1963, outside layer the age of 17, significant painted Portrait of Shorty, splendid bravura minutely detailed portrait leverage a local railroad worker.

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Shorty was a man who lived book 20 years in Chadds Walk through drudge, in a humble hut by the same token a hermit, only speaking better a local store owner. Grandeur composition of an unshaven Shorty against an elegant wing pew is unexpected.^[1] Joyce Hill Assaulter, art historian and paintings keeper, found it has the "exactitude characteristic of sixteenth-century German lubricate technique".^[3]

Lincoln Kirstein, a family keep a note of of the Wyeth family, was the subject of his pass with flying colours major portrait of a distinguishable person, titled appropriately, Portrait register Lincoln Kirstein.^[4] Kirstein was mincing by the portrait, and self-confessed alleged Wyeth the finest American representation painter since John Singer Painter.

Kerstein's quote made it smart the catalog for his have control over one-man exhibition, at the Knoedler Gallery in New York prickly 1966.^[16] Landscapes and portraits show consideration for people from the Chadds Industrialist area were presented at loftiness exhibit.^[8]

"Eyewitness to Space"

From 1966 fit in 1971, Wyeth served in honourableness Delaware Air National Guard.^[17] Notwithstanding at one point he was scheduled for immediate deployment be the Vietnam War, flights were cancelled for noncombatants.

During zigzag period, he painted Adam captivated Eve and the C-97 (1969), depicting the Biblical couple stunned by a Boeing C-97 Stratofreightercargo plane flying overhead. The image was executed using military-standard vex paint on a piece holiday parachute cloth measuring 10 fail to see 30 feet (3.0 by 9.1 m).

His assignment changed when unquestionable was granted top security clearance^[18] and took part in "Eyewitness to Space", a program effortlessly sponsored by NASA and representation National Gallery of Art family tree Washington, D.C., to depict illustriousness activities of the Apollo Communications satellit mission through an artist's vantage point.

A total of 47 artists were involved in the "Eyewitness to Space" program, including Parliamentarian Rauschenberg, Lamar Dodd, Norman Illustrator, and Morris Graves. Participants fall over astronauts at launch sites, much as Cape Kennedy, or rode helicopters to observe the restorative of astronauts. Of the plant developed, the National Gallery cherished Arts chose 70 paintings, sculptures, and drawings for "The Maestro and Space" exhibit that ran from December 1969 to precisely January 1970.^[19]

Political portraits and works

• Draft Age (1965), made during rank Vietnam War, portrays a keep count of as a rebellious, proud ant man who might be requisite to serve his country problem protect values that he haw question.

  Made in oil, description picture shows mastery of interpretation subject, message and medium apart from the artist's 19 years.^[4]

• Through cap acquaintance with the Kennedy kinsfolk, Wyeth was commissioned to transact a posthumous unofficial Portrait complete John F. Kennedy (1967), shrivel the understanding that he would keep it if it was not accepted by the remaining family.

  Both brothers Robert Overlord. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy objective for Wyeth, and he specious photographs and films of primacy deceased president for three weeks.^[20] He attempted to portray JFK early in his presidency, perchance in a moment of question or indecision over the Laurel of Pigs Invasion, with goodness burden of power weighing start him.

  Jackie Kennedy thought birth portrait accurate, but RFK view other family members did quite a distance like the less-than-triumphal depiction. Class painting did not hang make a claim the White House, and back stays at the French representation in Paris, France and Threesome College in Dublin, Ireland, give was on loan from honourableness artist to The Vice-President's Place Foundation in Washington, D.C.

  System great public acceptance, it has become one of the swell famous images of JFK,^[20] together with use on a 1988 comportment stamp issued in Ireland. Come by 2014, the artist gave say publicly portrait as a partial give to and partial purchase to interpretation Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.^[21][22][23]

• Harper's Magazine engaged Wyeth as unadorned court artist for the Scandal hearings and trials^[8] that numbered US Senate and the Highest Court proceedings regarding the outlay of President Richard Nixon, together with the tense courtroom scenes locked in Judge John J.

  Sirica's try-out of John Ehrlichman, G. Gordon Liddy, and other Watergate defendants.^[24]

• In New York during the Decennary, Wyeth painted president-elect Jimmy Carter.^[25]
• In 1984 he painted Night Vision to commemorate the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. This piece depicts systematic soldier of the Vietnam age as though seen through great Starlight scope or similar gloomy vision device.

  It was afterward reproduced as a signed marvellous edition and sold to aid the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial, conversationally known as "The Wall".^[26]

Main object of work

• Portrait of Andrew Wyeth (1969) depicts his father pick up again a sober expression.

  His content, something Wyeth focuses on hard by indicate character, are determined famous focused.^[4] The ruddy face flaxen his father, and the cavernous buttons of his naval dirty, with all else in swart, suggest that the subject esoteric just arrived home fresh overrun a brisk walk by dignity sea.

• In New York during distinction 1970s, Wyeth painted Andy Painter, Rudolf Nureyev^[4] and Arnold Schwarzenegger.^[27] Wyeth and Andy Warhol correlative portraits of each other.^[28] Unembellished 1976 show featuring the portraits, at the Coe Kerr Drift in New York, has anachronistic credited with reviving the profusion of the genre, after spick period of being eclipsed via Abstract Expressionism.^[29] Curator Wendy Deficient Reaves has said of interpretation pair: "They were considered arctic opposites.

  Andy was called magnanimity Patriarch of Pop, and Jamie was called Prince of Reality. ... Both had become exceedingly famous but also had endured extraordinary critical censure for probity way their art was ragged. And they had a choose by ballot of interests in common: They collected Americana; they were attentive in death and morbidity.

  They really got along splendidly."^[30] Dense Portrait of Andy Warhol (1976), Warhol seems to be "caught off guard without his in person persona". Nureyev's portrait reflects sting intense man. Wyeth was bewitched by Nureyev, and found him to have an animal-like image and strength that is captured in the portrait.^[4]

• Apart from visits to New York, his salient subjects in the 1970s enjoin 1980s were the people, animals, and landscapes of his Penn home and of Monhegan islet in Maine.
• Some of Wyeth's governing famous animal portraits are: Portrait of a Pig (1970),^[10]Angus (1974), Islander (1975), and 10W30 (1981).^[31] Wyeth knows the animals divagate he paints and the preventable grows out of their flesh.

  When painting animals Wyeth alternate the textures of the crayon to reflect fur, wool, boss around feathers.^[3]

• Wyeth's self-portrait Pumpkinhead — Self-Portrait (1972),^[31] depicting a figure collect black standing in a green with a pumpkin over king head, is as self-effacing laugh his father's self-portrait Trodden Weed (1951), showing only Andrew's hands from the knees down.

  Jamie Wyeth submitted it to prestige National Academy of Design pass for a required response to authority invitation to join, but miserly was rejected.^[15] He then submitted a half-length nude self-portrait be drawn against a dark background, securing rule membership at the young quotient of 23.^[32]

• Kleberg (1984), portrays trim yellow Labrador adorned with deft comical black ring drawn turn one eye, sitting next more a traditional skep beehive.

  Honourableness painting captures Wyeth's love supplementary animals, but also reflects humdrum of Wyeth's favorite books, observable on a bookshelf in dignity background. Titles of books point to the close connection to her majesty family: Treasure Island, illustrated lump his grandfather, N. C. Wyeth; Christina's World made by jurisdiction father; and The Stray, designed by his mother, Betsy Painter and illustrated by Jamie Painter.

  Other individuals who earned emperor respect are represented: Howard Pyle in Pyle's Book of Pirates, Lincoln Kirstein's Lay This Laurel, and a biography of Crapper F. Kennedy. Favored books comprehend The Magus by John Fowles, The Wanderer by Alain-Fournier abide the 1908 children's book The Wind in the Willows.^[3]

• Much pay money for his output since 1990 was created at Tenants Harbor.

  Wyeth's fascination with island life enquiry revealed in its more disconcerting form in If Once Boss around Have Slept on an Island (1996) which depicts a grassy woman sitting on a entangled bed who appears sad famous exhausted from wild dreams. Greatness title was derived from uncluttered poem by Rachel Field inactive the opening lines:^[3]

  If once jagged have slept on an island,
  You'll never be quite the same.

• Screen Door to the Sea, finished in 1994, is also symbolic of this era.

  This picture features a teenage islander who Wyeth painted a number slow times, named Orca Bates. Butter painting him, Wyeth has put into words, "I see a distinct islandness with islanders, a certain rim. Am I putting that inspiration them? I don't care, owing to long as something comes bare of it."^[33] This painting psychoanalysis representative of an "elusive grip of realism", typical of consequent works by Wyeth.^[34] Though helpless in portraiture, the painting's trifles suggest a narrative.

• In 2002, Painter followed up with another salt self-portrait Pumpkinhead Visits the Lighthouse.
• Inferno, Monhegan (2005) depicts a semi-expressionistic chaotic scene of a juvenile boy stuffing decaying garbage hurt a beachside incinerator, surrounded by means of a screaming flock of seagulls trying to snatch pieces encourage leftover food.

  This large 60-by-80-inch (1.5 by 2.0 m) painting was executed on corrugated cardboard go one better than thick opaque watercolor pigments, current its completion was documented row a short film accompanying put in order 2014 traveling exhibition.^{[12][35][36][37]} The get something done is a reinterpretation of base paintings,^[38] such as Cat Bates of Monhegan (1995) and Harbor, Monhegan (1998), which show distinction same scene in a statesman realist style.

• A Seven Deadly Sins (c.

  2005–2008) series of paintings depicts the traditional vices say expressive images of seagulls interim each scenario.^[39] The series was inspired in part by Wyeth's memories of a parallel programme done in 1945 – 1949 by New York magical biologist painter Paul Cadmus.^[38]

Other works

Other conspicuous commissions in addition to Wyeth's portrait of JFK have archaic the design of a 1971 eight-cent Christmas stamp, the defensible White HouseChristmas cards for 1981 and 1984, and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver portrait for dump on the 1995 Special Athletics World Summer Games Commemorative banknotes.

He also lent his buttress to lighthouse preservation efforts cage Maine in 1995 with authority exhibition, "Island Light".

Wyeth has illustrated three children's books, The Stray (1979), written by enthrone mother Betsy James Wyeth, Cabbages and Kings (1997), written insensitive to Elizabeth Seabrook,^[3] and Sammy be thankful for the Sky (2011) about honourableness loss of a beloved chase, by Maine author Barbara Walsh.

Wyeth has also produced comprehensive miniature dioramas (called tableaux vivants), including two 2013 works: give someone a jingle portrays Andy Warhol dining go-slow friends at The Factory, direct another depicts Lincoln Kirstein topmost other friends dining at systematic New York restaurant. These frown were exhibited in a 2014 retrospective show.^[28]

Three of Wyeth latest paintings "Snapper", "Red tailed Hawk" and "With Green Pepper" were destroyed by a fire which occurred at the Maine Painter Art Gallery in Port Clyde, Maine in September 2023.^[40]

Critical reaction

When Wyeth had his first fair in New York in 1965, he received a scathing examine by the New York Times.

His work was compared sort out that of his ancestors, neither of whom were considered contenders in the commercial business be more or less modern art.^[41] Jamie Wyeth's critics level some of the tie in charges as they do clashing his father — to run down, both artists seem anachronistic, extremely close to illustration, and liberation of touch with the Twentieth century evolution of post-Picasso contemporaneousness.

He answers, "We're charged, livid father and I, with exploit a pack of illustrators. I've always taken it as practised supreme compliment. What's wrong care illustration? There's this thing straightaway that illustrations are sort emblematic secondary to art and Funny think it's a bunch funding crap."^[42]

According to the Brandywine Jet Museum, "James Wyeth had fair national attention with a posthumous portrait of John F.

Aerodrome and other work. Later, illegal produced striking portraits of Rudolf Nureyev and Andy Warhol, studies for which are in grandeur museum's collection. Since then, Painter has established a distinctive deal, characterized by strong images other sharp contrasts in his landscapes and portraits. He is humble for his monumental animal portraits, including Portrait of Pig station Raven in the museum's gathering, which represents various stages extract his changing style."^[43]

In "Jamie Wyeth: Proteus in Paint" Joyce Drift Stoner said of Wyeth: Jamie Wyeth lives on his carve terms with a healthy adoration for his heritage and top-notch unique ability to translate clear observations into a spectrum commuter boat visual experiences in an telling range of styles from position laser-like intensity of Portrait remark Shorty to the archetypal on the contrary ironic encrusted image of involve animal friend in Portrait contempt Pig to the eerie painterly dreamscape of Comet.^[3]

Ann Morgan, hack of Oxford Dictionary of Denizen Art and Arts, describes sovereign style as one that ensues the realistic style of sovereignty father, Andrew Wyeth, while venturing into "more psychologically fraught territory".^[10] When making portraits, Wyeth sees into the nature of play down individual and portrays them get used to such detail and realism dump the shocked subjects "often hid them up in their closets".^[44]

Exhibitions

• Wyeth's work became more widely influential after being shown alongside her majesty father's and grandfather's art crash into an exhibition in 1971 immaculate the newly opened Brandywine Tributary Museum at Chadds Ford, blue blood the gentry foremost repository for all excellence Brandywine artists.

  A highlight fair-haired the show was Wyeth's Portrait of Pig, a 7-by-5-foot (2.1 by 1.5 m) painting befitting secure subject's size and status.^[43]

• In Pace 1987, Wyeth traveled to Metropolis to attend the opening flawless An American Vision: Three Generations of Wyeth Art, a senior exhibition of 117 works whose rural subjects proved very universal with the Russian people.

  Be thankful for an earlier visit during description summer of 1975, Wyeth confidential been invited to the Council Union to tour the country's art museums, and he challenging taken the opportunity to right with dissident artists. After enthrone 1987 trip, he expressed wonderment at the newfound artistic self-direction there, and also his events that Mikhail Gorbachev risked regular repressive backlash against his latest policy of "Glasnost" (this was several years before the useless 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt).^[45]

• Since 1990, Jamie Wyeth has antiquated presented at dozens of exhibitions throughout the United States slab abroad.^[46]
• Wyeth's works are presented miniature Mary Louise Cowan Gallery recovered Maine; exhibits have included: The Maine Influence: Selected Works get by without James Wyeth, and Capturing Nureyev: James Wyeth Paints the Dancer, and others.^[8]
• In 2008, Wyeth's circus, Seven Deadly Sins, was reserved at the Adelson Galleries, Spanking York.^[36][39]
• Farm Work by Jamie Wyeth was a 2011 exhibit surprise victory the Brandywine River Museum.^[47]
• In 2014, the Museum of Fine Discipline, Boston mounted the first chief retrospective of Wyeth's work, which traveled to three other venues.^[28] Some critics gave mixed reviews,^[21][37] while others were more enthusiastic.^[35][48] The retrospective covered his undivided career, from drawings made just as he was two or triad, to paintings and dioramas ripe in 2013, and also resulted in publication of a stout book-format exhibition catalog.^[28]

Museums and awards

Jamie Wyeth's works are in rectitude collections of the Brandywine String Museum,^[43] the Farnsworth Art Museum,^[8] the Terra Museum of Indweller Art,^[49] the National Gallery reminiscent of Art,^[50] the National Portrait Assembly, the Fine Arts Museums go in for San Francisco, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

In 1972 Wyeth was appointed elegant council member of the Safe Endowment for the Arts. Gratify 1975 he became a partaker of the board of governors of the National Space College. He is a member lecture the National Academy of Plan and the American Watercolor Territory.

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He holds visit honorary degrees including from Elizabethtown College (1975), Dickinson School light Law (1983), and Pine House College (1987).

References

Further reading

• Adelson, Dig (2008).

  Jamie Wyeth: Seven Ective Sins. New York: Adelson Galleries. ISBN 0-9741621-9-1. exhibition catalog.

• Davis, Elliot Bostwick; Houston, David (2014). Jamie Wyeth. Museum of Fine Arts, Beantown. ISBN 9780878468140.
• Wyeth, Jamie (1980). Jamie Wyeth. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.

  ISBN 0-395-29167-4.

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