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FRIDAY APRIL 5, 2024 • VOL. 54, NO. 14
Brandywine Museum Of Art To Present “Jamie Wyeth: Unsettled” Chadds Ford, Pa., Will Be The First Of Four Stops For Exhibition Running now until June 9 at the Brandywine Museum of Art, “Jamie Wyeth: Unsettled” will trace a persistent vein of intriguing, often disconcerting imagery over the career of renowned artist Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946). This major exhibition, organized by the Brandywine and five years in the making, will feature more than 50 works drawn from museum and private collections across the country that focus on the artist’s arresting, visceral imagery, revealing fascinating insight into Wyeth and the art of visual storytelling. “Unsettled” will be on view at Brandywine in Chadds Ford, Pa., before traveling to four additional art museums around the United States.
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experience that both engages and upsets visual and emotional equilibrium.” A celebrated figure in contemporary art and fiercely independent in the face of prevailing art world trends, Jamie Wyeth stands apart in a shadowy and strange world of his own creation. While frequently countered and even hidden by the artist’s fuller body of work, particularly his well-known coastal views, farmscapes, and portraits, a consistent thread of darker, more troubling imagery has been a constant in the artist’s work over the past 60 years. His work has evolved from the ultra-realistic visions and virtuoso brushwork of his youth
By Karl Pass Shirk’s Auction Gallery at 659 North State Route 934, Annville, Pa., is holding a 400-plus lot online sale of antique firearms, military rifles and militaria, Saturday, April 6. The sale will begin closing at noon. A preview is scheduled for Friday, April 5, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Shirk’s Gallery. The auction house is FFL licensed and will process all registrations for local buyers onsite at the gallery. Among the standout lots are a U.S. Springfield Armory 1903 rifle, a U.S. M1 Guam Garand rifle, a Sturm, Ruger and Co. No. 1 rifle, a U.S. Smith Corona rifle 03-A3 unissued, and a U.S. M1 Navy Match rifle. There is a U.S. Springfield 1878 trapdoor, a U.S. Springfield Armory Continued on page 11
Locati Sells Asian Antiques At Monthly Online Auction The work by Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946), “A Midsummer Night’s Dusk,” 2022, oil, enamel, and acrylic, 39-by-29 inches, from the Phyllis and Jamie Wyeth Collection, is courtesy Jamie Wyeth / Artists Rights Society (ARS), N.Y. Jamie Wyeth’s (b. 1946) “Bean Boots,” from 1985, is an oil-on-panel, 37by-50 inches, from the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, a gift of the Cawley Family, 2001.29.1, courtesy of Jamie Wyeth / Artists Rights Society (ARS), N.Y. “Jamie Wyeth is a renowned American painter who has created his own legacy and redefined what it means to be a Wyeth. This exhibition takes a fresh look at the artist’s oeuvre and with remarkable nuance plumbs a rich vein of the uncanny throughout Wyeth’s six-decade career,” said Thomas Padon, the James H. Duff Director of the Brandywine Museum of Art. “As the title suggests, ‘Unsettled’ focuses on a single through line in Wyeth’s work, one in which ominous stillness, postapocalyptic skies, frightening shifts in scale, and strange vantage points seem to highlight the vulnerability of the human condition. With his startling compositions and a masterful use of media, color and texture, Wyeth creates an immersive, synesthetic
i n t o a m a t u re e x p re s s i o n ism in which intense color and dramatic paint handling electrify his canvases. As this exhibition will reveal, in each of these stages of his career Wyeth is at home with uneasy subjects and a master of the unsettled mood. “Across the decades, Wyeth has honed his attention onto unnerving phenomena, zeroed in on uncanny experiences, and delved into a world of unsettling imagery,” said Amanda C. Burdan, Ph.D., senior curator at Brandywine and curator of the exhibition. “With consummate skill, marshaling a wide range of disconcerting elements, subjects, compositional approaches and techniques, within his works, Wyeth has developed skillful, cinematic evocations that can
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Jamie Wyeth’s (b. 1946) “Roots, Revisited,” from 2019, is an acrylic, oil, and enamel on panel, 48-by-96 inches, from the Phyllis and Jamie Wyeth Collection, courtesy of Jamie Wyeth / Artists Rights Society (ARS), N.Y. induce anxiety in the viewer.” “Unsettled” begins with a presentation of eccentric portraits that illustrate Wyeth’s most powerful means of evoking disquieting moods, like the subjects in “Bean Boots” (1985), or the figures left partially hidden, such as in “Record Player” (1964) and “Other Voices, Study #1” (1995). The
exhibition continues by immersing viewers into natural and supernatural worlds, from works inspired by the artist’s time spent in Maine, which frequently acknowledge the power of the sea and its fearsome ability to render humans helpless, to forest-based works from Pennsylvania that delve Continued on page 11
Asian antiques dominated Locati LLC’s monthly online sale in February, held from Feb. 4 to 18, ending with live session on Feb. 18. Locati is located in Pineville, Pa. The following are a few highlights. Prices include buyer’s premium. A large Korean blue and white jar from Joseon Dynasty realized $6,400, while a large Chinese silver, enamel, and cinnabar plaque went for $3,625. A group of Japanese Continued on page 8
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