SELECTED CHRONOLOGY OF JAMES WYETH

1946 Paints portraits of Ballet 6 July. James Browning Wyeth born in founder and family friend, . Wilmington, to Andrew Newell Meets other artists with whom he will later Wyeth (b.1917) and Betsy James Wyeth (b. work, including . 1921). James, known as Jamie, has one Completes: Portrait of Lincoln Kirstein brother, Nicholas (b. 1943). (National Portrait Gallery, gift of Lincoln Kirstein), Draft Age (Brandywine River 1959 Museum). Leaves school in seventh grade, against the wishes of the School Board, to 1966 devote himself to . He is tutored in First one-man show, James Wyeth academic subjects in the mornings and , Knoedler Gallery, New York spends afternoons in formal study of City. (Lincoln Kirstein writes foreword to drawing with , his aunt. exhibition catalogue.) Declines commission from Kennedy family 1961 for portrait of President John F. Kennedy. Completes first oil of a friend, Jimmy Decides to complete portrait on his own. Lynch, The Soldier (Stuart Kingston Befriends Jacqueline and other members of Galleries, Delaware). Works primarily on family. Sketches brothers, Robert and watercolor landscapes of Brandywine Valley Edward, as reference for final portrait. and , where family spends summers. Completes: Portrait of Jeffrey (private Completes: Luke (private collection). collection), The Squall (private collection), Portrait of Governor Charles L. Terry, Jr. 1963 (Bureau of Museums, State of Delaware - Explores portraiture in oil. completed as part of his duty for Delaware First acquisition by a museum, The Capstan, Air National Guard), Bronze Age 1963, (). (Farnsworth Art Museum). Completes: Shorty (Collection of Mr. and Mrs. ), Lester (private 1967 collection), Portrait of Helen Taussig (John Exhibits works at , Hopkins University - commissioned by the Washington, D.C.; participating artist in the University), Mushroom Picker (private "Eyewitness to Space" program sponsored collection). by NASA (other participants included , Peter Hurd, Robert 1964 Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol). Family friend, actor Robert Montgomery, Completes: Portrait of John F. Kennedy commissions portrait. (private collection). Completes: The Axe (private collection), Record Player (private collection), 1968 Halloween (private collection), Portrait of Purchases home built by artist Rockwell Deo duPont Weymouth (private collection), Kent on Monhegan Island, Maine, and Portrait of Hamelainen (private collection). begins spending summers there. Focuses on landscapes of island, 1965 11 December. Marries Phyllis Mills Enlists in the Delaware Air National Guard, Completes: Portrait of Lady (private attending boot camp in Amarillo, Texas. collection), Island Roses (Collection of Mr. Studies with Russian anatomist at morgue in and Mrs. Andrew Wyeth). New York City for two months, dissecting and drawing cadavers. 1969 1975 11 July - 8 September. First one-man Invited by the Soviet government's Union of museum show, Oils, Watercolors and Artists and Writers to visit U.S.S.R. art Drawings by James Wyeth, Farnsworth Art centers and speak to members. Museum, Rockland, Maine. Awarded honorary Doctor of Letters from Elected Associate of the National Academy Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, of Design, one of youngest in institution's Pennsylvania . history. Completes: And Then Into the Deep Gorge Completes: Portrait of Andrew Wyeth (private collection), Portrait of Thomas (Collection of the Artist), Apollo 11--One, Jefferson (private collection), The Islander Two, Three (National Air and Space (Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Museum, Smithsonian Institution), Wide Wyeth). Load (National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution), Median Strip 1976 (private collection). Invited by Andy Warhol to paint in Warhol's Broadway studio known as "The Factory." 1970 The two artists paint portraits of each other. Completes: Portrait of Pig (Brandywine Exhibition, Portraits of Each Other, River Museum), Sea of Storms (private organized by Coe Kerr Gallery, New York collection), Gull Rock (MBNA America). City. Travels to Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York; Tennessee Botanical 1972 Gardens and Fine Arts Center at Appointed council member National Cheekwood, Nashville, Tennessee; Endowment for the Arts. Brandywine River Museum, Chadds, Ford, Completes: Pumpkins at Sea (private Pennsylvania; and Hotel de Paris, Monaco. collection), Newfoundland (private Exhibition, James Wyeth , organized by Coe collection), Kent House (Brandywine River Kerr Gallery, New York City, travels to Museum), The Red House (Collection of the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska. (Art Artist), Portrait of Jean Kennedy Smith Historian Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., writes (private collection), Pumpkinhead - Self essay for exhibition catalogue.) Portrait of Portrait (private collection). Thomas Jefferson appears in Time, (July 4, Bicentennial issue). Completed portrait of 1973 President-Elect published on Completes: Portrait of Paul Mellon (private cover of Time (January 1977), when Carter collection - commissioned by sitter). is named "Man of the Year." Associated pencil studies appear in The New Republic , 1974 22 January 1977. James Wyeth Recent Paintings, first Completes: Portrait of Andy Warhol exhibition at Coe Kerr Gallery, New York (Tennessee Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood), City, which represents him until it closes, Jimmy Carter (National Portrait Gallery, gift 1993. of Time), Man from Boston (private Commissioned by Harper's Magazine to be collection). court artist for Watergate trials. Sketches published throughout special issue, "American Character: Trial and Triumph" Harper's Magazine, 249, no. 1493 (October 1974). First meets Nureyev. Asks dancer to pose for portrait. Nureyev declines. Completes: Shark (private collection), Scavenger (private collection), Angus (private collection), Grackles and Angus (private collection).

1977 Completes: 10W30 (Collection of Mr. and Meets Nureyev again. Dancer agrees to Mrs. Andrew Wyeth), 30 Dozen (private pose for portrait. Watches rehearsals from collection), Leghorns, (private collection). the wings at Uris Theater, New York City. Completes series of over thirty portrait 1982 studies and one large oil. Lincoln Kirstein Completes: Coast Guard Anchor purchases a study. (Farnsworth Art Museum), A Couple of Completes: Portrait of Chairs Sitting Around the Coast of Maine (private collection), Portrait of Arnold (private collection), Feeding Ledge (private Schwarzenegger (private collection - collection), Mallard (private collection), completed in "The Factory"), Giant Clam Tide (private collection), Coast Guard Issue (private collection), The Rookery (Pepsico, (MBNA America), Island Geese (private Inc.). collection).

1978 1983 Completes: Monhegan Bell (MBNA Awarded honorary Doctor of Letters from America), Runaway Pig (private collection), Dickinson School of Law, Dickinson Looking South (private collection), Whale College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. (private collection). Exhibition of recent work, in Alaska, organized by Coe Kerr Gallery, New 1979 York City. Travels to Anchorage Fine Arts Illustrates children's book, The Stray, written Museum, Fairbanks; and Alaska State by Betsy James Wyeth, based on life and Museum, Juneau. people in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Completes: The Summer in Maine Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. (Collection of Leslie S. Turchin), Night Comple tes: Angeload (private collection), Chickens (private collection), Chadds Ford Automaton (Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Inn Pumpkin Carve (private collection), Fall Frank E. Fowler), Wicker (Collection of Mr. Roses (private collection). and Mrs. Andrew Wyeth), pen and ink drawings for The Stray (Collection of the 1984 Artist). Second commission by the Reagans, Christmas Morning at the , 1980 reproduced as White House Christmas card. First major retrospective, Jamie Wyeth , Exhibition, Jamie Wyeth: An American organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of View, organized by , the Fine Arts. Travels to Greenville County Portland, Maine. Travels to Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina; and to Museum, Columbia, South Carolina, and Amon Carter Museum of Art, Fort Worth, The Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City. Texas. Accompanying book published by Completes: Breakfast at Sea (private Houghton Mifflin. collection), Wolfbane (Brandywine River Experiments with etching and lithography. Museum), Kleberg (Terra Museum of Completes: Raven (Brandywine River American Art). Museum), A Very Small Dog (MBNA America), series of etchings called The 1985 Farm, lithographs To Sail Against the Wind, Completes: Sea Star (Terra Museum of and A Sea Pumpkin. American Art), New Year's Calling (private collection). 1981 Commissioned by President and Mrs. Reagan to paint Christmas Eve at the White House, reproduced as White House Christmas card.

1986 1991 Exhibition, An American View: Three Completes: Portrait of Richard Paul Mills Generations of Wyeth Art, organized by the (private collection), Buoy Tree (private Brandywine River Museum, and includes collection), Connemara Four (Cawley works by Andrew and N. C. Wyeth. Family Collection). Exhibition travels over the next two years to Washington, D.C., Dallas, Texas, Chicago, 1992 Illinois, as well as Italy, England, Japan, and Completes: Bi-Coastal (private collection), Russia. Michael, 21st Earl of Suffolk and the 14th (Lincoln Kirstein writes essay for exhibition Earl of Berkshire (private collection), The catalogue published by Bullfinch Press.) Mainland (private collection), The Completes: Newt of Monhegan (private Wanderer (private collection), Light Station collection), Kalounna in Frogtown (Terra (MBNA America). Museum of American Art), Southern Light (private collection). 1993 Exhibition, Jamie Wyeth: Islands, works 1987 completed on Maine islands, organized by Completes: Scotia Prince (private the Farnsworth Art Museum. collection), Connemara (private collection), 6 January. Nureyev dies in Paris. Giulianna and the Sunflowers (Brandywine Three-Quarter Figure, Study for Portrait of River Museum), The Influence Rose (private Rudolf Nureyev, Study #91 (Collection of collection). Albert, Kathlene, and Catharine Parnell) exhibited at Russian Embassy, Washington, 1988 D.C., during memorial service for Nureyev. Awarded honorary doctoral degree from White Highlights, Three-Quarter Figure, University of Vermont, Burlington. Nureyev, Study #15 (Collection of the Artist) Completes: Gull's Egg (Collection of the exhibited in Ambassador's residence in Paris Artist), Russians Off the Coast of Maine from 1993 to 1997. (MBNA America), Sable (private Awarded honorary Doctor of Letters from collection), Fog Bound Island (private Westbrook College, Portland, Maine. collection). Completes: Lighthouse (private collection), Iris at Sea (private collection), Meteor 1989 Shower (Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Begins painting Monhegan Island teenager, Wyeth), Black Background, Three-Quarter Orca Bates, who figures prominently in his Figure, Nureyev, (Collection of Artist), work of the early 1990s. White Highlights, Three-Quarter Figure, Completes: Sesquicentennial (Collection of Nureyev (Collection of the Artist), Nude, Mr. Daniel K. Thorne), Love the Giver Three-Quarter Figure, Nureyev (Collection (private collection), Door Wolf (private of the Artist), Yellow Leotard, Three- collection), Squirrelling (Collection of the Quarter Figure, Nureyev (private Artist), Portrait of Orca Bates (Farnsworth collection). Art Museum). 1994 1990 Receives commission to create portrait of Jefferson (private collection), mixed media for 1995 Special portrait of the president, on long-term loan Olympics World Summer Games at Monticello. Commemorative Coin (May 1995, Moves to lightkeeper's house on Southern Philadelphia Mint). Island, off Tenants Harbor, Maine. Completes: Cat and Mouse (private Completes: Russian Circus Bear (private collection), Screen Door to the Sea collection), Islanders (private collection), (Farnsworth Art Museum), Black Spruce Orca Bates (private collection), Orca in (Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art). Winter (private collection).

1995 Cat Museum, Monhegan Island (Cawley Completes: Cat Bates of Monhegan (private Family Collection). collection),Other Voices (private collection), Dome Room (Warner Collection), Sunset, 2000 Southern Island (private collection). Exhibition of political theme paintings, One Nation: Patriots and Pirates Portrayed by 1996 N. C. Wyeth and James Wyeth, organized by 5 January. Lincoln Kirstein dies. the Farnsworth Art Museum. Travels to Completes: Vice President's House (private Russell Rotunda at the Capitol, Washington, collection), Nine is a Secret (private D.C. (coincides with inauguration of George collection), If Once You Have Slept on an W. Bush, January 2001). Additional venues Island (private collection), The Thief include: New Britain Museum of American (MBNA America), Sophmore at Bowdoin Art, Connecticut; Brandywine River (private collection), paintings for Cabbages Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania; and and Kings (Collection of the Artist). Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida. Completes: Dawn, The White House, 2000 1997 (The White House Historical Association), Illustrates children's book, Cabbages and Fogbank (MBNA America), Hillgirt Farm Kings, published by Viking, text by (Brandywine River Museum), Final Elizabeth Seabrook. Approach Into Philadelphia (MBNA Exhibition, N. C. Wyeth and his Grandson: America), The Island's Schoolteacher A Legacy, organized by the Terra Museum (Collection of Bebe and Crosby Kemper). of American Art, Chicago, Illinois. Travels to Brandywine River Museum, Chadds 2001 Ford, Pennsylvania. Awarded honorary Doctor of Letters from Completes: Saltwater Ice (private the University of Maine, Orono. collection), Comet (MBNA America), Completes: The Raven and the Girl (private Wolfgang of Monhegan (private collection), collection), Iceberg (private collection), Lighthouse Dandelions (MBNA America). Portrait of Nureyev (Collection of Jim and Jocelyn Stewart), Nureyev - Purple Scarf 1998 (Collection of the Artist), Nureyev - Don Wyeth Center opens, Farnsworth Art Quixote - Yellow Background (Collection of Museum. Includes gallery spaces, archive the Artist), Nureyev - Don Quixote - White storage, and research library. Inaugural Background (Collection of the Artist), exhibition, Wondrous Strange, also features Nureyev - Swan Lake (Collection of the works by , N. C., and Andrew Artist), Mort de Noureev (Collection of the Wyeth. Exhibition travels to Delaware Art Artist), Curtain Call (Collection of the Museum, Wilmington. Artist). Completes: Ice Storm, Maine (private collection), Katie on Southern (private collection), Maine Coon Cat (MBNA America), Harbor, Monhegan (MBNA America).

1999 Exhibition, Dead Cat Museum, Monhegan Island, organized by James Graham and Sons, New York City. Completes: Drink (Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Wyeth), Eat (Farnsworth Art Museum), The Church (MBNA America), The Wind (private collection), The Tempest, a Triptych (MBNA America), Julia on the Swing (Cawley Family Collection), Dead