01 Marine Art, James Browning Wyeth's Surf Watchers, with Footnotes #308

Jamie Wyeth, b.1946

Surf Watchers, c. 1976

Watercolor on paper

26½ by 40 in., 67.3 by 101.6 cm.

Private collection

Sold for 151,200 USD in May 2022

Surf Watchers depicts the artist’s wife, Phyllis Mills Wyeth, leaning out of the Dutch door at the front of their house on Monhegan Island in Maine, where the work was painted. More on this painting

James Browning Wyeth (born July 6, 1946) is a contemporary American realist painter, son of Andrew Wyeth, and grandson of N.C. Wyeth. He was raised in Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania, and is artistic heir to the Brandywine School tradition.

Early on, Wyeth became interested in oil painting. What inspired Wyeth most was not the subject matter or technique of his grandfather, but Jamie adopted a wider palette of colors.

Wyeth excels in drawing, lithography, etching, egg tempera, watercolor, and mixed media. Though grounded in this family’s artist tradition and subjects, and bound by the same solitude of his art, his wider travels and experiences have shaped a more rounded artist. In travels to Europe, he studied the Flemish and Dutch masters, and learned the intricate and exacting process of lithography, producing a substantial amount of graphic work.

Since the 1970s, Wyeth has often painted on corrugated cardboard, and now uses "archival" versions of the surface. He likes the rough striated effect it gives to his paintings, and he has also portrayed the material with great fidelity in depictions on conventional canvas. More on James Browning Wyeth

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