Three Generations
of Wyeths
N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth – American 1882-1945
Andrew Wyeth – American, 1917-
Jamie (James Browning) Wyeth – American, 1946-
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N.C. Wyeth, Self Portrait
Andrew Wyeth by his
sister, Henriette Hurd
Univ. Delaware confers
honorary degree to Jamie Wyeth, Oct 13,
2002
N.C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth is the patriarch of
three generations of Wyeth-Hurd artists. Wyeth is best known
as an illustrator and his images appear in children's classics,
tales of adventure, historic and patriotic poems, and magazine
stories.
Andrew Wyeth, the youngest son of N.C. Wyeth,
is the most acclaimed artist in the family. He has been recognized
internationally as America's foremost realist. Andrew was particularly
close to his father and began studying with him at an early
age.
Jamie (James Browning) Wyeth, son of Andrew Wyeth
and grandson of N. C. Wyeth, has moved through a series of styles
since his first one-man exhibition at Knoedler Gallery in 1966
at the age of 20. He works in oil, charcoal, pen-and- ink or
watercolor illustrations, and mixed media on toned boards. His
choices of media and subjects are different from those of his
father but refract the legacy of his grandfather. Jamie's works
sometimes communicate a tongue-in-cheek humor but always radiate
a hedonistic delight in both the materials of art and the textures
of his subjects.
N.C.
Wyeth by Kate F. Jennings – Paperback, 112 pages
(April 1999) Knickerbocker Press
Featuring the work of artist and illustrator N. C. Wyeth, the
first of three generations of Wyeth artists, an overview highlights
illustrations, drawings, and paintings that captured the hearts
and minds of the world during his forty-three year career.
Andrew
Wyeth: A Secret Life by Richard Meryman – Paperback,
464 pages Reprint edition (May 1998) Harperperennial Library
Journalist Richard Meryman has written a riveting biography
of reclusive and brilliant painter Andrew Wyeth that is full
of surprises and revelations about his art and personal life.
Each chapter examines one or more of Wyeth's paintings to illuminate
his character, his creative processes, and his inner feelings.
Full of quotes from Wyeth and others, and with beautiful reproductions
of his paintings, here is a new and revealing portrait of a
complex, fascinating man. 16 color photos. 75 b&w.
Wondrous
Strange: The Wyeth Tradition by N.C. Wyeth, Andrew
Wyeth, James Wyeth, Delaware Art Museum (Cor), Howard Pyle –
Hardcover, 130 pages 1 Ed edition (September 1998) Bulfinch
Press
A splendid look at the "wondrous strange" paintings of four
great artists—Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth,
and James Wyeth—published in conjunction with a major
traveling exhibition, running from June 1998 through February
1999. 130 color illustrations.
One Nation: Patriots and Pirates by N. C. Wyeth (Illustrator),
Jamie Wyeth, Tom Brokaw, David Michaelis – Hardcover, 128
pages (October 2000) Bulfinch Press
The great twentieth-century American painter Andrew Wyeth resisted
the overtly patriotic subjects that his father and his son embraced.
That is probably just as well but says nothing against N. C
and James Wyeth's very different brands of patriotism. N. C.
lived between the bellicose presidencies of the two Roosevelts,
when national self-confidence and crusading fervor flourished.
He created dramatic visions of the nation's nobility and its
leaders' spiritual force. James is of the Vietnam and Watergate
generation. His patriotism is humbler and also ironic, though
not always as ironic as commentator Lauren Raye Smith thinks;
surely the big flag hung on the rustic house in Islanders isn't
"engulfing or protecting the two men" on the porch:
it's expressing them. Arguing with the commentator is one of
the prime pleasures art books enable, and this example features
plenty of beautiful, meaningful pictures to admire and inspect,
to boot.
As famous in their day as the authors whose stories they illustrated,
the six artists profiled in this nostalgic collection-N.C. Wyeth,
Howard Pyle, Harvey Dunn, Frank Schoonover, Philip R. Goodwin
and Dean Cornwell-used their unique talents at narrative depiction
to bring to life places and times in ways no modern medium has
surpassed. Vividly reproduced directly from the original paintings
that illustrated the pages of popular books and magazines of
up to a century ago, many of the pictures are seen here for
the first time, just as the artists painted them. The paintings
presented in this handsome volume lured readers to the exciting
adventure tales of buccaneers and cowboys, hunters and outlaws,
pirate fiction and historical romance written by Robert Louis
Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, James Branch Cabell, and other
favored writers of the day. Although commissioned to illustrate
the written word, these storytelling works of art can stand
alone. No text is needed to understand the drama of Howard Pyle's
Dead Men Tell No Tales, N. C. Wyeth's The Magic Pool,
Frank Schoonover's A Northern Mist, and the dozens of
other captivating paintings presented here.
Andrew
Wyeth: The Helga Pictures by John Wilmerding Paperback:
208 pages Publisher: Harry N Abrams; Reprint edition (March
1992)
For 15 years, America's most popular living artist worked in
secret with neighbor Helga Testorf as model. The resultsome
240 pencil sketches, watercolors, drybrush, and temperas, concerned
with Helga in all aspects, nude and clothedare here shown in
100 high-quality color plates and 160 black and white illustrations.
Works in progress reveal the artist's methods; finished works,
an obsession with his model as awesome as his technique. Wilmerding,
deputy director of the National Gallery, contributes an informative
text, further clarified by the artist's own observations. —Gloria
K. Rensch, formerly with Vigo Cty. P.L., Terre Haute, Ind. Copyright
1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Andrew
Wyeth: Autobiography by Andrew Wyeth, Thomas Hoving
(Introduction) – Paperback, 168 pages (September 1998)
Little Brown & Co
The most comprehensive edition of the artist's work ever published
reproduces 138 paintings, including Wyeth's most recognized
works, along with his comments about each one and reflections
on his life.
Andrew
Wyeth: Memory & Magic by Anne Knutson (Contributor),
Kathleen Foster (Contributor), Michael Taylor (Contributor),
Christopher Crosman (Contributor), John Wilmerding (Introduction)
– Hardcover: 224 pages Publisher: Rizzoli (November 8,
2005)
Prior to the 1960s, Andrew Wyeth enjoyed a stellar reputation
as a rising star in the art world. Since then, critics and scholars
have largely ignored him. Wyeth, however, who is age 88 at the
date of publication, has continued to paint, to the delight
of his admirers, collectors, and the art-loving public. Now,
in association with the High Museum exhibition, Andrew Wyeth:
Memory & Magic takes a fresh look at the work of one
of America's most beloved artists.In examining his entire oeuvre,
the book celebrates the artist's ongoing love affair with everyday
life-domestic, natural, and architectural. Found throughout
Wyeth's work, these objects form patterns that illuminate core
themes and reveal the artist wrestling with issues of memory,
temporality, embodiment, and the metaphysical. Organized chronologically
and thematically, the book explores how the artist's approach
to these subjects was formed in his early career, and has been
revisited in new and surprising ways in recent years.Andrew
Wyeth: Memory & Magic comprises 150 tempera paintings
and 50 drawings and watercolors-including his most-famous works,
but also many published here for the first time.
N.C. Wyeth: A Biography by David Michaelis – Hardcover,
555 pages 1st edition (October 1998) Knopf
N.C. Wyeth's wondrous paintings of The Last of the Mohicans,
Robinson Crusoe, and Treasure Island have given visual form
to these stories for generations of readers. Wyeth's extraordinary
pictures still carry all the power they had in their heyday.
And communal, millennial-bound nostalgia for the first half
of the 20th century gives the paintings, if possible, an even
more sentimental glow. This meticulous, encompassing study of
the tempestuous, difficult, brilliant illustrator also delves
into the entire clan of famous Wyeth artists.
From Booklist , August 19, 1998 With more than 160 reproductions,
the lion's share in color, this accompaniment to an exhibition
of landscapes by one of the century's greatest serious popular
painters is a shoo-in addition to virtually every American art
library. Emphasizing landscape, it perforce emphasizes Wyeth's
watercolors, which have never before been so extensively displayed.
Like many other artists, Wyeth uses watercolor to make preparatory
studies for paintings in a classier medium, in his case tempera.
Color photos illustrate the unique blend of past and present
that sets Pennsylvania's Brandywine Valley apart. Essays on
the du Pont family, area gardens, horse racing and hunting,
and the art of the Wyeths accompany full-page photos of rolling
countryside, rivers, wildlife, and residents. Annotation copyright
Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Andrew Wyeth: Close Friends by Andrew Wyeth, Betsy
Wyeth (Introduction) – Hardcover, 160 pages (April 2001)
University of Washington Press
Much ink has been expended explaining the symbolism of Wyeth's
famous paintings of figures in barren farm fields or inside
barely furnished rooms. The artist's wife, Betsy James Wyeth,
says in her one-page, six-paragraph introduction that the pictures
in this book portray their African American friends, and R.
Andrew Maass, who masterminded the exhibition that it complements,
in effect says they are to be regarded as portrayals, pure and
simple.
Andrew
Wyeth: Self-Portrait - Snow Hill
Starring: Betsy James Wyeth, Narrated by Stacy Keach
Director: Bo Bartlett
Format:
Collector's Edition, Color,
Digital Sound, Full length, Full Screen,
NTSC
VHS Release Date: March 1, 1999
Run Time: 60 minutes
The authorized documentary about one of the greatest painters
the world has ever known, Andrew Wyeth. Sensitively narrated
by actor Stacy Keach, this intimate self-portrait explores over
60 years of Mr. Wyeth's personal drama. Incorporating the artist's
great works of art along with family photographs, home movies,
personal letters, never-before-seen footage of Mr. Wyeth and
the first interview ever granted by famed model Helga Testorf,
this tremendously moving program lends a treasured insight into
Mr. Wyeth's very private world.
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N.C.
Wyeth
Andrew
Wyeth: A Secret Life 
Wondrous
Strange: The Wyeth Tradition 
One Nation: Patriots and Pirates
N.
C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals
Andrew
Wyeth: Autobiography 
N.C. Wyeth: A Biography 
Unknown Terrain: The Landscapes of Andrew Wyeth
Brandywine: A Legacy of Tradition in Du Pont-Wyeth Country
Andrew Wyeth: Close Friends
Starring: Betsy James Wyeth, Narrated by Stacy Keach 
Collector's Edition, Color,
