Wyeth family biography questions

The first time I saw Andrew Wyeth’s work was at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was around the time of the country’s Bicentennial, and the Met made a wise decision to showcase Wyeth’s realism at a time when modern abstractionism seemed to rule the world.

For me, that show was a gateway into the collective work of one of America’s great artist families as I began to notice the work of his son, Jamie, and his powerful profiles of JFK, and in joining my own father in his lifelong hero worship of Andrew’s father N.C.

Wyeth and his glorious illustrations.

Jamie is still working in his studio in Maine, but as his niece, Victoria, pointed out on the phone with me last week, there will be no next generation of Wyeth artists to keep this remarkable family tradition going.

As Andrew’s only grandchild, she has chosen to work and write in the world of psychology, and she