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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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.
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.
I paint every day. I really have no hobbies. That's all I do.
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Art was a way of life in my family. My grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, who died a year before I was born, had been a prominent painter. So was my father, Andrew. My two aunts and two of my uncles also earned a living as painters.
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.
academy design national
I had been elected to the National Academy of Design in New York, and one of the requirements was that you give a portrait, a self-portrait of yourself.
As a child, I always wanted to live on a boat.
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Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.
painted rags union
I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling.
absolutely life maine onto singular
There's a quality of life in Maine which is this singular and unique. I think. It's absolutely a world onto itself.
absurd puppets
Dance looks absurd on film, I think, like little puppets moving around.
compared grandson problems start time worrying
The whole consideration of - ... am I being compared as such and such's grandson and son - that was minuscule compared to the problems I was having just working... I didn't have time to start worrying about who I was in the eyes of the public.
Really, if you get to know pigs, they're very moody. They're not sweet little animals at all. That's what I like about them. They get depressed; they get into these snits. They're carnivorous.
alone animals companions knew left school spent time
I spent a lot of time alone; I left school to be tutored. So, most of my companions were animals. It's as simple as that. I knew more animals than I did people.