Jamie Wyeth on view at San Antonio Museum of Art April 25 through July 5, 2015

The San Antonio Museum of Art will present Jamie Wyeth, on view April 25 through July 5, 2015. Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and accompanied by an illustrated catalogue, Jamie Wyeth examines the artist’s imaginative approach to realism over the course of six decades in the first comprehensive retrospective of the artist. The exhibition will include approximately 100 paintings, works on paper, illustrations, and assemblages created by the artist—many in a range of “combined mediums,” Wyeth’s preferred term for the distinctive technique he brings to his compositions.

The exhibition features Wyeth’s portraits of subjects such as his wife, Phyllis Wyeth; John F. Kennedy (commissioned by family members after his death); Helen Taussig, MD; Rudolf Nureyev; and Andy Warhol, which will be shown alongside a selection of preparatory drawings and studies that offers a window into the artist’s immersive approach to portraiture. The exhibition also features landscapes of the worlds Wyeth inhabits in the Brandywine River Valley (between Pennsylvania and Delaware) and the Midcoast of Maine; still lifes of pumpkins (a fascination from his youth); and portraits of the many animals and birds that are part of his surroundings.