Jamie Wyeth

White Leghorns

1981

Wyeth is an American realist painter. He is the son of Andrew Wyeth and grandson of N.C. Wyeth. He was raised in Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania. Wyeth is known for capturing the essence of domestic animals, such as chickens, dogs, pigs, and horses and the texture of animal fur and feathers, the glossiness of its eye, the grass around its feet. Wyeth is also drawn to the subject of trees and has rendered compostitions of tree trunks and their tangled roots. Wyeth's works are included in many public collections, including those of the Terra Museum of American Art, National Gallery of Art, National Portrait Gallery, John F. Kennedy Library, Museum of Modern Art, Joslyn Art Museum, Farnsworth Art Museum, Delaware Art Museum, Brandywine River Museum, Morgan Library and Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Whitney Museum of American Art and Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Wyeth is a participating lender for the United States Department of State, Art in Embassies Program.