35 Facts About Jamie Wyeth

James Jamie Wyeth is the second child of Andrew and Betsy Jamie Wyeth, born three years after brother Nicholas, his only sibling.

Jamie Wyeth was raised on his parents' farm "The Mill" in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, in much the same way as his father had been brought up, and with much the same influences.

Jamie Wyeth demonstrated the same remarkable skills in drawing as his father had done at comparable ages.

Jamie Wyeth attended public school for six years and then, at his request was privately tutored at home, so he could concentrate on art.

At age 12, Jamie studied with his aunt Carolyn Wyeth, a well-known artist in her own right, and the resident at that time of the N C Wyeth House and Studio, filled with the art work and props of his grandfather.

Jamie Wyeth developed an offbeat sense of humor, sometimes veering to the macabre.

In 1968, Wyeth married Phyllis Mills, daughter of Alice du Pont Mills and James P Mills and one of his models.

Jamie Wyeth did not produce any children during his marriage.

Jamie Wyeth died January 14,2019 at their home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.

Jamie Wyeth has painted many of the local people on Monhegan Island.

Jamie Wyeth has a home at Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania on the Brandywine.

Early on, Jamie Wyeth became interested in oil painting, his grandfather's primary medium, although he is adept in watercolor and tempera, his father's preferred media.

Jamie Wyeth adopted a wider palette of colors than his father's, which was closer to his aunt's and grandfather's color choices.

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

Jamie Wyeth excels in drawing, lithography, etching, egg tempera, watercolor, and mixed media.

Jamie Wyeth pays particular attention to the texture of the animal's fur or feathers, the glossiness of its eye, the grass around its feet.

Since the 1970s, Jamie Wyeth has often painted on corrugated cardboard, liking the rough striated effect cardboard gives his paintings and now using an archival variant as a substrate.

Jamie Wyeth has depicted cardboard itself in conventional canvas paintings, such as the painting 10W30, depicting a pair of chickens nesting in a discarded carton that once had held 10W30 grade engine oil.

Jamie Wyeth uses thick, opaque watercolor pigments, straight from the tube, creating effects similar to oil paints.

Lincoln Kirstein, a family friend of the Jamie Wyeth family, was the subject of his first major portrait of a prominent person, titled appropriately, Portrait of Lincoln Kirstein.

From 1966 to 1971, Jamie Wyeth served in the Delaware Air National Guard.

Jamie Wyeth's assignment changed when he was granted top security clearance and took part in "Eyewitness to Space", a program jointly sponsored by NASA and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, to depict the activities of the Apollo Moon mission through an artist's perspective.

Jamie Wyeth lent his support to lighthouse preservation efforts in Maine in 1995 with his exhibition, "Island Light".

Jamie Wyeth has illustrated three children's books, The Stray, written by his mother Betsy James Jamie Wyeth, Cabbages and Kings, written by Elizabeth Seabrook, and Sammy in the Sky about the loss of a beloved dog, by Maine author Barbara Walsh.

Jamie Wyeth has produced detailed miniature dioramas, including two 2013 works: one portrays Andy Warhol dining with friends at The Factory, and another depicts Lincoln Kirstein and other friends dining at a New York restaurant.

When Jamie Wyeth had his first exhibition in New York in 1965, he received a scathing review by the New York Times.

Jamie Wyeth's work was compared to that of his ancestors, neither of whom were considered contenders in the commercial business of modern art.

Since then, Jamie Wyeth has established a distinctive style, characterized by strong images and sharp contrasts in his landscapes and portraits.

Jamie Wyeth is known for his monumental animal portraits, including Portrait of Pig and Raven in the museum's collection, which represents various stages in his changing style.

Ann Morgan, author of Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Arts, describes his style as one that follows the realistic style of his father, Andrew Jamie Wyeth, while venturing into "more psychologically fraught territory".

When making portraits, Jamie Wyeth sees into the nature of an individual and portrays them with such detail and realism that the shocked subjects "often hid them up in their closets".

Jamie Wyeth's works are in the collections of the Brandywine River Museum, the Farnsworth Art Museum, the Terra Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Art, the National Portrait Gallery, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

In 1972 Jamie Wyeth was appointed a council member of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Jamie Wyeth is a member of the National Academy of Design and the American Watercolor Society.

Jamie Wyeth holds many honorary degrees including from Elizabethtown College, Dickinson School of Law, and Pine Manor College.