Join us for an exclusive cocktail hour, presentation and Q&A with Victoria Wyeth. The only grandchild of the late Andrew Wyeth and the niece of contemporary realist, Jamie Wyeth, Ms. Wyeth's presentation will include interspersed discussions of subject matter and technique with direct quotes from her grandfather and her uncle. Hors d'oeuvres will be served by Bliss of Setauket. By ticket only. Limited number of tickets available.
Special thanks to Barbara Gottfried and Sam Aronson for sponsoring the exhibition that has inspired this special event.
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Victoria Browning Wyeth, the only grandchild of iconic artist Andrew Wyeth, is the daughter of Nicholas and Jane Wyeth. Her father is a private art dealer, and her mother is an art advisor who was trained as an art historian. Ms. Wyeth is the great-granddaughter of illustrator N.C. Wyeth and the niece of contemporary realist Jamie Wyeth.
Since her first gallery talk in June, 1995, Ms. Wyeth has interspersed discussions of subject matter and technique with direct quotes to her from her grandfather and her uncle. She also, of course, adds many personal memories and family stories. Continue reading below….
Thank you to Ron Hoffman and Bliss of Setauket, NY for Helping to Sponsor this Special Event and Exhibition.
Thank you to John Tsunis and The Holiday Inn Express of Stony Brook, NY for Helping to Sponsor this Special Event.
A 1997 graduate of the Nightingale-Bamford School in New York, Ms. Wyeth earned a B.A. in American Cultural Studies in 2001 from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. She then spent a year as a Visiting Graduate Student at Harvard University, where she studied the History of Science and the History of Medicine. She further pursued her academic studies by attending Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT., earning a Master of Arts degree in the History of Clinical Psychiatry. Her M.A. thesis was titled: Delusions of Body and Soul: Chronicling Delusions at the Connecticut Hospital for the Insane, 1867-1886.
Ms. Wyeth has lectured extensively throughout the United States and abroad. She’s given gallery talks and Power Point lectures at Wyeth museum exhibitions from Tokyo to Paris. Her early morning gallery talks during the 2006 Andrew Wyeth retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum were consistently sold-out.
Standing room only is the norm at Ms. Wyeth’s PowerPoint lectures. In addition to lecturing at museums, she’s lectured on her grandfather’s work at Bonhams Auction House in New York, at the Palm Beach Art Fair, at annual conferences of doctors and travel agents, and to college alumni groups. She’s given innumerable talks across the country to Private Wealth Management clients.
Ms. Wyeth has devoted much of her time to giving pro bono lectures. She’s spoken to students of all ages, and in 2015, Ms. Wyeth delivered a TEDx talk to more than 1,600 junior high school students in Pennsylvania. She’s also spoken at prisons and nursing homes.
Ms. Wyeth is a gifted photographer; the Philadelphia Museum of Art used her photographs of her grandfather for publicity purposes for their 2006 retrospective Andrew Wyeth: Memory and Magic. Moreover, her black and white photographs of the artist were exhibited in conjunction with his exhibitions at the Bates College Museum of Art (2000-2001), the Mississippi Museum of Art (2001), and the High Museum of Art (2005-2006). Two museum shows including Ms. Wyeth's photographs were held in 2017. The first solo museum exhibition of her photographs, Victoria Wyeth: My Andy, was at the Greenville County Museum of Art in Greenville, South Carolina, which has the world’s largest public collection of watercolors by her grandfather.
Learn about Victoria Wyeth in greater depth by visiting her website: www.victoriawyeth.com