Jamie Wyeth: unsettled / edited by Amanda C. Burdan ; with essays by Jennifer Margaret Barker, Amanda C. Burdan, Rena Butler, Michael Kiley, and John Rusk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wyeth, Jamie, 1946- artist.

Contributor:

Burdan, Amanda C. (Amanda Cathryne), 1973- editor, writer of supplementary textual content.

Barker, Jennifer Margaret, writer of supplementary textual content.

Butler, Rena, writer of supplementary textual content.

Kiley, Michael, writer of supplementary textual content.

Rusk, John (Motion picture producers and directors), writer of supplementary textual content.

Padon, Thomas, writer of foreword.

Brandywine Museum of Art, host institution, publisher.

Class of 1953 Fund.

Farnsworth Art Museum, host institution.

Greenville County Museum of Art, host institution.

Dayton Art Institute, host institution.

Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wyeth, Jamie, 1946---Exhibitions.

Wyeth, Jamie.

Realism in art--Exhibitions.

Realism in art.

Painting, American--20th century--Exhibitions.

Painting, American.

Wyeth, Jamie, 1946-.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

192 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Other Title:

Unsettled

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Rizzoli Electa ; Chadds Ford, PA : Brandywine Museum of Art, 2024.

Summary:

"A major monograph of the American realist artist, descendant of one of America's most revered artistic families, and painter of dark and uneasy subjects. This book traces a persistent vein of intriguing, often disconcerting, imagery over the career of renowned artist Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946), famous for his hyperrealist paintings of farm animals and Maine lighthouses. The focus in this volume is on the chilling thread that runs through his work, present but not overwhelming, and ever-evolving with his style and subjects. Whether he is introducing curious characters or surveying strange landscapes, Wyeth is at home with uneasy subjects and a master of the unsettled mood. Like his father, Andrew Wyeth, and grandfather N. C. Wyeth before him, Jamie Wyeth splits his time between the Brandywine River Valley of Pennsylvania and Delaware and the mid-coast of Maine. In these two locales Wyeth has passed through many "obsessions," as he calls his favored subjects: farm tools brimming with the potential for violence, eccentric portraits and unnerving figure studies, haunted places, and possessed plants and animals. In addition to the main essay, contributors explore the creation of similarly unsettling moods in film, dance, sound artistry, and classical music" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Director's foreword / Thomas Padon

Acknowledgments / Amanda C. Burdan

The unsettling, uncanny, unnerving world of Jamie Wyeth / Amanda C. Burdan

Invisible anxiety / Michael Kiley

A bomb under the table : masters of suspense and tension in cinema / John Rusk

Sourcing the crux / Rena Butler

Painting with sound / Jennifer Margaret Barker

Plates

Checklist of the exhibition

Contributors

Image credits.

Notes:

Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name, held at Brandywine Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA, March 16-June 9, 2024; Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME, July 4-September 29, 2024; Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC, November 27, 2024-February 16, 2025; Dayton Art Institute, OH, March 15-June 8, 2025; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, July 2-October 4, 2025.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gemmill fund bookplate.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.

ISBN:

9780847899562

084789956X

OCLC:

1393242596