The Wyeths Across Texas

The El Paso Museum of Art is proud to be the single touring venue for an exhibition organized and first displayed at the Tyler Museum of Art, which presents 31 works in Texas collections by the most beloved and famous family of American artists-N. C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, and Jamie Wyeth. The exhibition includes the EPMA's own bold watercolor by Andrew, Trout Stream, which the artist painted in Maine in 1948. Trout Stream entered the Museum's collections in 1983 as a gift of the EPMA Association Members' Guild.

The Wyeths Across Texas also features a distinguished oil portrait of Andrew by his sister and fellow artist, Henriette Wyeth, which complements Andrew's own touching portrayal of Henriette in profile gazing out an open window (both works loaned by the San Antonio Museum of Art). Henriette Wyeth is also represented by the inclusion of two of her works from the EPMA: the still like Mixed Flowers and the portrait Peter Wyeth Hurd, which represents an "all-American" portrayal of her young son not long after she followed her husband Peter Hurd to his native New Mexico. Just a few of the numerous lenders to the exhibition are the Brownsville Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Amon Carter Museum of Art in Fort Worth, the El Paso Museum of Art, and several private Texas lenders with a passion for collecting the Wyeths' art.

N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945) became a leading American illustrator; in turn, his son Andrew (1917-2009), who received rigorous early training from his father, became the most celebrated American realist of his generation. Andrew's sister Henriette (1907-1997) also became an important artist specializing in portraits and still lifes. Andrew`s son Jamie (born 1946), followed in his grandfather's and father's footsteps, and he continues to work in a realist vein in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and Monhegan, Maine.

Jamie's handful of works in the exhibition range from a detailed "portrait" of the back-ends of three corpulent pigs-Woolworth, Russell and Fowler-to a more loosely executed existential portrayal of the famous American Pop artist Andy Warhol-Andy Without His Glasses. Wyeth patriarch N. C. (Newell Covers) Wyeth is represented by the greatest number of works in the exhibition, including several pictures of Western cowboys. The realism of these colorful works testifies to Wyeth's close observation of the countryside, cowboys, and Native American tribes during his early trips out West.

Admission

• Non-member adults age 13+ $10
• EPMA member adults age 13+ $5
• Children age 12 and under FREE
• Active Military personnel and their family with ID FREE

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