Oct. 9, 2002--Members of the University community are invited to attend a ceremony honoring noted artist Jamie Wyeth at 4:30 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 13, in the Multipurpose Room of the Trabant University Center. He will be awarded an honorary doctor of humane letters degree. The event is free and open to the public. Those planning to attend should call 831-2341 or send e-mail to [sdorr@udel.edu].

Jamie (James Browning) Wyeth is the son of artist Andrew Wyeth, (a past recipient of a UD honorary degree) and the grandson of artist and illustrator N.C. Wyeth, who studied under legendary illustrator and teacher Howard Pyle, the founder of the Brandywine School of painting.

An established artist by his 18th birthday, with paintings in the permanent collections of the Wilmington Society of Art and the Farnsworth Art Museum, as well as in private collections, Jamie Wyeth has painted portraits of local and national figures, including former Delaware Gov. Charles L. Terry and President John F. Kennedy.

Wyeth’s painting, “Portrait of Pig,” was one of the highlights of the 1971 inaugural exhibition at the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pa. The show examined the artistic legacy of the Wyeth family.

In 1975-76, the Josyln Museum in Omaha, Neb., held the first full retrospective of Jamie Wyeth’s works, and he achieved further national attention with a show at the Coe-Kerr Gallery in New York City, an exhibit that also featured portraits that he and pop artist Andy Warhol had done of one another.

The artist’s works are included in the collections of several museums, including the National Gallery of Art, the National Portrait Gallery, the John F. Kennedy Library, the Museum of Modern Art, the Delaware Art Museum and the Brandywine River Museum.

Article by Jerry Rhodes