Jamie Wyeth
Birth Date: July 6, 1946

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James Browning Wyeth, known better to the public as Jamie Wyeth, was born in 1946 into a family dynasty of artists. His father is Andrew Newell Wyeth; his grandfather was Newell Convers Wyeth and his aunt, Carolyn Wyeth. It is quite a reputation to live up to and he does it with a true Wyeth flair. The singular object is a dominant theme in the work of Jamie Wyeth. In Jamie’s paintings and prints, people, animals, and landscape elements are scrutinized. Although the influence of the Brandywine tradition is evident in his personal communion with nature, Jamie also shows an appreciation for direct, realistic depictions. Jamie left school after the sixth grade and was tutored at home like his father before him. He studied art from his aunt, Carolyn Wyeth, and later worked with his father. In 1963, Jamie moved to New York City where he studied anatomy and in 1966 at the age of twenty, he had his first major exhibit at Knoedler Gallery. He now lives on a farm in Delaware and spends his summers in a house once owned by Rockwell Kent, on Monhegan Island. Whether at his farm or on Monhegan Island, Jamie’s subjects are often the land, the farm animals, his neighbor’s houses and often times the image appears with humorous undertones. As a portraitist of people and animals, Jamie often captures a character that is distinctive and can only be captured when you have a close association with the subject. He is a figurative painter, who looks to nature for his subjects, like his father and grandfather before him. But his sense of design is his own. About this piece: Kleberg was the yellow Labrador dog owned by artist Jamie Wyeth and his wife Phyllis. One day in the 1980s when Kleberg was two, he wandered too close to Jamie’s painting easel. In response, Jamie painted a black circle around the dog’s left eye — a la Pete the Pup of the old television comedy Our Gang. "I discovered that moustache dye was a better medium than paint since it lasted about a month, so every month we would have to touch up his circle for the rest of his life," Wyeth said. Kleberg is buried in a cemetery on a hill at Point Lookout in Brandywine Valley, a farm and second residence to Jamie and his wife.