page_title: Jamie Wyeth
section_title: Exhibitions
hierarchical_section_title: Jamie Wyeth / Works / Exhibitions
context_page_description: James Browning Wyeth is 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.
context_section_description: Wyeth's work became more widely known after being shown alongside his father's and grandfather's art at an exhibition in 1971 at the newly opened Brandywine River Museum at Chadds Ford, the foremost repository for all the Brandywine artists.  A highlight of the show was Wyeth's Portrait of Pig, a 7-by-5-foot (2.1 by 1.5 m) painting befitting its subject's size and status.
  In March 1987, Wyeth traveled to Leningrad to attend the opening of An American Vision: Three Generations of Wyeth Art, a major exhibition of 117 works whose rural subjects proved very popular with the Russian people. In an earlier visit during the summer of 1975, Wyeth had been invited to the Soviet Union to tour the country's art museums, and he had taken the opportunity to meet with dissident artists. After his 1987 trip, he expressed astonishment at the newfound artistic freedom there, and also his concerns that Mikhail Gorbachev risked a repressive backlash against his new policy of "Glasnost" (this was several years before the failed 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt).
  Since 1990, Jamie Wyeth has been presented at dozens of exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad.
  Wyeth's works are presented at Mary Louise Cowan Gallery in Maine; exhibits have included: The Maine Influence: Selected Works by James Wyeth, and Capturing Nureyev: James Wyeth Paints the Dancer, and others.
  In 2008, Wyeth's exhibition, Seven Deadly Sins, was held at the Adelson Galleries, New York.
  Farm Work by Jamie Wyeth was a 2011 exhibit at the Brandywine River Museum.
  In 2014, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston mounted the first major retrospective of Wyeth's work, which traveled to three other venues. Some critics gave mixed reviews, while others were more enthusiastic. The retrospective covered his entire career, from drawings made when he was two or three, to paintings and dioramas completed in 2013, and also resulted in publication of a large book-format exhibition catalog.
caption: Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
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