Jamie Wyeth

The Resource Jamie Wyeth
Label
Jamie Wyeth
Statement of responsibility
Elliot Bostwick Davis, with an essay by David Houston
Creator
Contributor
Artist
Author
Writer of preface
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
As famous, and sometimes famously controversial, as the three generations of Wyeth artists have been, the artistic vision of Jamie Wyeth (born 1946), considered separate from the context of his family, remains surprisingly little known. This retrospective, the first in more than 30 years, presents a full range of work from his earliest virtuoso portraits to his most current mysteriously symbolic seascapes. Jamie Wyeth's early exposure to painting in his father Andrew Wyeth's studio, his youthful immersion in Andy Warhol's Factory and the New York art scene of the 1970s, and his continuing dialogue with artists past and present combine with his artistic imagination to create an elusive, hybrid form of realism that ranges from sharply observed portraits of historical and cultural figures, to personified animals and animated landscapes, to a vision of an inferno set on Maine's Monhegan Island. By exploring the themes and subjects central to Jamie Wyeth's vision, the authors place him in the context of his own distinguished artistic heritage as well as the long tradition of American realist painting and its contemporary revival. The more than 100 paintings, works on paper and multimedia assemblages lavishly reproduced in this book invite us to explore the world of a prodigiously gifted, adamantly individualistic American artist
Biography type
contains biographical information
Cataloging source
BMF
Dewey number
759.13
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • portraits
Index
index present
LC call number
ND237.W935
LC item number
A4 2014
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • bibliography
  • catalogs

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Context of Jamie Wyeth

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