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
art books edgar love thomas
I have hundreds of art books and the biographies of artists I love, such as Thomas Eakins and Edgar Degas.
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.
absolutely calculated cool god loved warhol
The quality I most loved in Warhol - it was his sense of wonder. I mean, he was - absolutely everything was, 'Oh my God, isn't that wonderful!'. You know, and so it wasn't that he was cool and kind of calculated at all. He was very childlike.
painter profession stand
Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall.
huge sought warhol
Warhol had a huge effect on me. It wasn't that I sought it out. It was more of a natural evolution.
brushes lived natural pencils
We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question.
dance good music
To me, dance is so ethereal and elusive, so much of an illusion. After a performance, that's it. With vocals and music, you have good recordings.
death kiss popularity work
The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.
incredibly limitless
With a creature, there's no voice, so the eyes become the voice. When you get eye-to-eye contact, a real connection, it's limitless - and incredibly thrilling.
copies time
I have copies of the books my grandfather illustrated for Scribner's in each house. I read those books all the time.
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.
Oddly enough, my grandfather probably had more of an influence on me than my father.
hard time
I'm a terrible technician, and I have a very hard time painting.
house lived wore worked
My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and even wore some of his clothes.