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
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My father's like - it's as if he was transparent. He's a man of great mystery, whereas apparently N.C. Wyeth was 6-feet, 2-inches tall, with a booming voice. I think that's reflected in their work.
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My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and even wore some of his clothes.
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My father was a great inspiration, and there was a bit of competition between us. He'd work in his studio, and I'd work in my space, but the door was always half open.
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My father's work is rather mysterious, not much said, and my grandfather's is robust, bursting off the walls.
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My father, whose work I adore... was down working on little things of grass and dead birds. Well, that didn't interest me. As an 8-year-old kid, I wanted knights in armor and so forth.
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All my problems and anxieties certainly come out of my work, and that's the way it should be. Other than that, relationships with people I find very, very simple.
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I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling.
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I learned from a longtime farmer that pigs enjoy soothing music.
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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.
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Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.
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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.
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I have continued to paint; my father - who was savaged by the critics - continued to paint until practically the last week of his life.
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Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall.
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I mostly paint animals I'm familiar with, but I did a series of paintings of ravens, so I read everything about them.