Word: wyeth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Some day I will be remembered as Jamie Wyeth's father," says Artist Andrew Wyeth. The boy certainly is his father's son. At 20, he is such a talented painter that already his portraits command up to $8,000, and late this month Manhattan's Knoedler Gallery will have a one-man show of 42 of Jamie's works. The gallery will not have what is bound to be one of the artist's most interesting works: an uncommissioned portrait of John F. Kennedy that Jamie has been working on for the last four...
Snowfalls & Souls. Wyeth, the apparent realist, at 49 paints a world of his own. In a sense, it is a nostalgic world...
...Wyeth's largest retrospective show to date, 223 works, is currently on view in Philadelphia's 161-year-old Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.* At the opening, he received the academy's gold medal, the 36th winner in the train of artists like Winslow Homer, Whistler and Sargent, recalled: "I was twelve years old when my father first brought me to the academy, and I . . ." Then he could say no more and sat down...
Ageless, Endless. Recently, Wyeth has focused on portraits. His people are no longer elements of landscape, but Rembrandtesque, life-sized faces of those he knows well. As his subject matter has become increasingly human, his painterly light seems to glow within his subjects rather than wash them from the outside. Wyeth himself believes that two of his recent works (see opposite) are his finest portraits...
Grape Wine portrays Wyeth's friend and handyman Willard Snowden. Since 1964, he has painted the wine-loving Negro drifter often in wistful poses suggestive of eternal human patience. Says Wyeth: "He gave me a chance to paint something timeless, ageless, endless. He's all of the Brandywine Valley, its dankness and brooding power...