“There is a great technical facility shown in the realistic style and meticulous execution of all Jamie Wyeth’s works… Wyeth’s attention to accuracy and detail of animal anatomy is such that when ‘Portrait of Pig,’ his picture of a neighbor’s pink and white sow named Den-Den, was exhibited at the Joslyn Museum in Omaha, the ‘Hog King of Nebraska’ came up to shake hands and accurately diagnosed a snout condition based on the painting.”
(1980), three-color etching and drypoint on off-white wove paper
9.9x 13.8 in. (25.1 x 34.9 cm.)
Private collection
Fence line
(1984), mixed media on paper
14.5 x 23 in. (36.8 x 58.4 cm.)
Private collection
Switcher
(1977), watercolor on paper
24 x 36 in. (60.9 x 91.4 cm.)
Private collection
The Monte Carlo Pig
[inscribed with various notations in lower left]
(ndg.), watercolor and pencil on paper
9 x 14 in. (24.7 x 35.6 cm.)
Private collection
Pig
(c. 1969-70), watercolor on paper
11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm.)
Private collection
My Pig
(ndg.), pen and ink on cream wove letterhead paper
Private collection
About the Artist
James Wyeth, United States, (b.1946). Jamie Wyeth is a third-generation American artist: son of Andrew Wyeth, among the country’s most popular painters, and the grandson of Newell Convers (N.C.) Wyeth, famous for his distinctive illustrations for the classic novels by Stevenson, Cooper, and Scott.
Jamie Wyeth is the artistic heir to the Brandywine School Tradition – a group of painters who worked in the rural Brandywine River area of Delaware and Pennsylvania, portraying its people, animals, and landscape.