In an exclusive interview, Jamie Wyeth discusses his Maine island sanctuary and new works now on view at Farnsworth Art Museum.
Twelve nautical miles off the coast of Maine sits Monhegan Island, a rock that juts out of the Atlantic measuring just 4½ square miles. Though the population is less than 100 people, the island is home to a curious lot. There’s a Rockefeller on a porch, a squealing man with a lobster bib, a World War II POW, a communist artist and vicious seagulls.
And artists. Lots of artists. Some of the best. George Bellows, Robert Henri, Edward Hopper, Edward Willis Redfield. All ghosts, except for one. Jamie Wyeth. The painter— son of Andrew Wyeth, grandson of N.C. Wyeth—maintains a home and studio on the island where he paints some of the locals and gets lost amid the mist of the sea and the fog of time.
“It’s quite fantastic living here, which I guess is the problem—too many people are thinking the same way. During the winter there’s maybe five families on the island, but then summer rolls around and it balloons to hundreds of people, mostly day-trippers,” the 76-year-old Wyeth says. “It’s physically spectacular. You’re just out here in the middle of the Atlantic. I have a house here, where I avoid the crowds inside my box where I work.”
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Guardians of the Temple – Simon Dinnerstein reflects on The Fulbright Triptych 50 years later.
The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University exhibits Simon Dinnerstein's The Fulbright Triptych haunts the visual lexicon of 20th century American representational art. Fifty years have passed since Dinnerstein completed the painting in 1974.
A City Perspective
Leslie Gaduzo has always been interIested in art. Since childhood, he has been drawing constantly, from single point perspective drawings at age 10 to complex architectural drawings.
Living Legacy
The Butler Institue hosts Allied Artists of America's 110th Annual Juried Exhibition.
Elegant yet Approachable
The second edition of the RTIA Show presents even more art to explore and expanded special programming.
Figuratively Speaking
New York has always been an epicenter of artists on the edge of excellence, pushing the envelope and finding their voices.
JAMES AYERS: The Importance of Play
Like many artists, James Ayers' work took a turn during the Covid-19 pandemic. Seeing the enjoyment his kids took from playing with paint in his studio and exploring their creativity inspired him.
GINA MINICHINO: Playing with Food
Gina Minichino started her journey in visual arts because of Charles Schulz. \"He was my earliest influence for drawing and the reason I wanted to be a cartoonist,\" she says.
Island Light
The Cuttyhunk Island Artists' Residency is held in a sprawling, 100-year-old house on an island off the southern coast of Massachusetts.
Solitary Forms
Hogan Brown has been working with Arcadia Contemporary for two and half years and is excited to be featured in his first solo show at the gallery. He doesn't take for granted the many talented figurative painters Arcadia represents and is thrilled to be among them.
Living the Dream
Counterintuitively, David Gluck was a painter before taking up tattooing little more than a decade ago. While skin is a completely different substrate and ink a far cry from oil paint, the skills must be transferrable to some degree because there is a wait-time of nine months to get an appointment with him.
