An Evening with Victoria Wyeth

An Evening with Victoria Wyeth

Lecture Series | This program is completed

All levels and ages are welcome.

9/28/2016-9/29/2016

7:00 PM-9:00 PM CDT on Wed

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$60.00

Andrew Wyeth's only grandchild explores the mystique and methods behind one of the great painters in American history... an intimate look at an American icon.

Andrew Wyeth (1917 - 2009) spent over seven decades creating some of the most important works in American artistic history. From Christina's World (MOMA) to the Helga series and memorable portraits and images from rural Maine and Pennsylvania, Andrew Wyeth's work can be found in important museums and private collections throughout the world. More importantly, his many powerful, yet haunting images have registered with the worldwide public as few others have.

His only grandchild Victoria, daughter of Nicholas Wyeth and niece of artist Jamie Wyeth, and a serious photographer in her own right, spent many hours as a “sidekick” to her grandfather during the latter years of his productive life.

She now offers us rare insight into the creative process and inner thoughts of this iconic man. Victoria will reveal the stories behind the paintings. She will offer the many anecdotes that she and Andrew shared, and present it all in an audio/visual presentation featuring many of her own photos of Andrew and images (many not seen before) of his work.

Andrew Wyeth's many museum retrospectives, publications, awards and recognitions (including being the first artist to be awarded The Presidential Medal of Freedom, this country's highest civilian award) are worldwide and too numerous to mention. He was a celebrity in his own right whose life and work have been analyzed over and over again.

Yet Victoria brings this great artist down to earth as basically a man who had a great talent and the creative drive to go with it and just wanted to use his ability to interpret in tempera and watercolor the inner essence of his life and that of his subjects.

A memorable evening awaits!

  • There will be a meet and greet with Victoria from 6 - 6:45 pm at the Palette & Chisel.
  • The event will take place at the Ruth Page Center located at 1016 N. Dearborn. It is directly north of the Palette & Chisel
Wyeth, Victoria

Victoria Browning Wyeth, the only grandchild of iconic artist Andrew Wyeth, is the daughter of Nicholas and Jane Wyeth. Her father is a private art dealer, and her mother is an art advisor who was trained as an art historian. Ms. Wyeth is the great-granddaughter of illustrator N.C. Wyeth and the niece of contemporary realist Jamie Wyeth. A 1997 graduate of the Nightingale-Bamford School in New York, Ms. Wyeth earned a B.A. in American Cultural Studies in 2001 from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. During her senior year there, she organized and curated her first museum exhibition. The exhibition, at the Bates College Museum of Art and titled Andrew Wyeth: Her Room, demonstrated, from initial preparatory sketches to the final 1963 tempera, Her Room, how the artist made a painting. The catalogue's introductory essays were written by Thomas Hoving, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and by author Richard Meryman. A docent of Wyeth art since the summer after her sophomore year in high school, Ms. Wyeth began giving gallery talks at the Farnsworth Art Museum, near her parents' summer home in Maine, when she was 16. From 2004 until 2011, Ms. Wyeth conducted gallery talks twice a day, five days a week, at the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Ms. Wyeth intersperses her discussions of subject matter and technique with quotes to her from the artists. To her personal memories and family stories, she adds insights gained through years of conversations with her grandfather and her uncle about their work, making Ms. Wyeth's talks unique.