Jamie Wyeth

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Jamie Wyeth (1946-)

Jamie Wyeth, The Thief, 1996, Oil on panel

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The body is a place of violence. Wolf teeth, amputated hands. Cover yourself with a cloak of leaves, a coat of a thousand furs, a paper dress. The dark forest has a code. The witch sometimes dispenses advice, sometimes eats you for dinner, sometimes turns your brother to stone… — Introduction to The Body in Fairytales by Jeannine Hall Gailey

Jamie Wyeth (1946) -

Spring, New growth 1971,

One of the Few Times You Actually Posed for Me

Jamie Wyeth

Lighthouse Drive-In Diner - Jamie Wyeth , 1993.

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Jamie Wyeth (b.1946) - Bees at sea - a study

Oil, gouache, and graphite on board. Executed in 1993.

20 x 16 inches, 50.8 x 40.6 cm. Estimate: US$30,000-50,000.

Sold Bonhams, New York, 30 April 2025 for US$64,000 incl B.P.

I've posted a watercolour by Wyeth of the same view previously.

22-acre Southern Island, off the coast of Maine, was purchased in 1978 by Wyeth’s mother, Betsy, complete with the Tenants Harbor Lighthouse. She and her husband, Andrew Wyeth, summered on Southern Island from 1978-1990. Having bought two more islands in 1979 (450-acre Allen Island and the much smaller Benner Island), in 1990 the Wyeths passed ownership on to their son Jamie with whom it remains.

The lighthouse is one of only 15 privately-owned lighthouses in Maine. Built in 1857, it was renovated by Betsy Wyeth. There is no working light, the lighthouse having been decommissioned in 1934, replaced by a lighted bell buoy offshore.

Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946), “Island Graveyard”

watercolour on paper, 1962

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

Agatha Christie

Jamie Wyeth 1946-

Jamie Wyeth

American, b. 1946