"The Schoelkopf Gallery has unveiled a landmark exhibition that brings to light a body of work unseen for nearly five decades. Jamie Wyeth: Portraits of Andy Warhol and Rudolf Nureyev presents the artist's strikingly intimate studies of two cultural giants of the 20th century. Opening September 12 and running through October 17, 2025, the show revisits Wyeth's silken realism and offers a rare glimpse into his artistic dialogue with Pop Art's enfant terrible Andy Warhol and ballet's electrifying star Rudolf Nureyev."
"In 1976, Jamie Wyeth and Andy Warhol sat for one another, resulting in portraits that reflected their sharply different artistic sensibilities. Warhol's silkscreen of Wyeth radiated the gloss of celebrity culture, saturated in Pop Art's fascination with fame and repetition. By contrast, Wyeth's rendering of Warhol cut through the glamour to capture his subject's fragile humanity. It was a portrait less about the icon and more about the man - his wonder, his introspection, and his contradictions."
Schoelkopf Gallery presents Jamie Wyeth: Portraits of Andy Warhol and Rudolf Nureyev, a landmark exhibition of works unseen for nearly five decades. The show opens September 12 and runs through October 17, 2025, and focuses on Wyeth's silken realism and intimate studies of Warhol and Nureyev. The paintings were kept by Wyeth's late wife, Phyllis Mills Wyeth, after their 1976 debut at Coe Kerr Gallery's Portraits of Each Other. Warhol's silkscreen captured celebrity gloss and Pop Art repetition, while Wyeth's portraits emphasized fragile humanity, introspection, and contradiction. Schoelkopf frames these works as essential contributions to the history of portraiture.
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