Jamie Wyeth
Jamie Wyeth
JamesBrowning Wyethis a contemporary American realist painter, son of Andrew Wyeth, and grandson of N.C. Wyeth. He was raised in Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania, and is artistic heir to the Brandywine School tradition, painters who worked in the rural Brandywine River area of Delaware and Pennsylvania, portraying its people, animals, and landscape...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth6 July 1946
CountryUnited States of America
painted rags union
I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling.
continued critics last life paint until
I have continued to paint; my father - who was savaged by the critics - continued to paint until practically the last week of his life.
painter profession stand
Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall.
animals familiar mostly paint paintings series
I mostly paint animals I'm familiar with, but I did a series of paintings of ravens, so I read everything about them.
paint
The things that I paint are things that I know very well.
andrew great lives painter paintings
The great thing about a painter is that he or she lives on - I mean, Andrew Wyeth is more in his paintings than he was walking around.
attracts chat field god painters painting sit sort wait
Painting is a field that attracts a lot of lazy people. You can just sort of sit and wait for things to come to you. I know a lot of painters who'll sit and chat it up all night. But God, I just can't do that.
form interests moves paint record
I'm a very boring person, and all I do is want to paint and to record what I feel moves me or what interests me, and that can be in the form of a pig or in the form of President Kennedy.
began drawing education finishing formal home left nearly necessary paint school sixth
I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter.
learned longtime music pigs soothing
I learned from a longtime farmer that pigs enjoy soothing music.
aunt earliest eat egg studio walk
From my earliest memories, my aunt was squirting out oil paint. I could just eat it. I would go from her studio and walk down to my father's house, and there he was, working in egg tempera.
totally
Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.
fantastic god wake
I'm a very strange painter. I don't wake up one day and say, 'God, isn't this a fantastic day, I'd better get out and paint!' I think my father's more that way, because he's very fast.
growing house loved solitary studio
Growing up in Chadds Ford, Pa., I shuttled between studio space in my parents' house and my grandfather's studio just up the hill. It was a solitary childhood, but I loved it.