TitleSelf-Portrait
Artist
Jamie Wyeth
(American, b. 1946)
Daten.d.
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 24 1/4 × 20 1/8 in.
Framed: 30 1/2 × 26 1/2 × 2 1/4 in.
SignedSigned upper left: "Wyeth"
SubmissionANA diploma presentation, June 21, 1979
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number1979.12
Label TextLike his grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, and his father, Andrew Wyeth before him, Jamie Wyeth was a precocious talent as a painter and he was elected associate member of the National Academy at the young age of twenty-three. Like his forebears, the figure is one of Wyeth's primary subjects and often set within a landscape or clearly defined interior space. "Self-Portrait" is something of an anomalous painting for the artist. Portrayed as a half-length nude against a dark background, the artist has rendered himself in an intense chiaroscuro, a stark juxtaposition of light and shade.Collections
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