#james wyeth

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James Wyeth - The Warning

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Firing Room, Apollo 11, watercolor on paper by James Wyeth, July 1969. Courtesy of the National Air and Space Museum.

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Over a period of several years, beginning in 1977, James Wyeth filled his sketchbooks and canvases with portraits of Rudolf Nureyev. There were hundreds of them, more of Nureyev than of any other subject.

This was, Mr. Wyeth said in a recent interview in his Manhattan apartment, one of the most demanding and fascinating assignments he had ever undertaken. He wanted to capture ''this phantom figure,'' he said, a goal that was complicated by Nureyev's obsessiveness about his art and himself.

''I've never worked with anybody who was that concerned with how I was doing him,'' Mr. Wyeth said. ''He wanted to see everything. That finished me with doing portrait paintings for a while, because he was the first person I ever painted whose visage was his world, his life.'' He said Nureyev would look at a drawing in progress and say -- Mr. Wyeth imitated Nureyev's accent -- ''My foot more beautiful than that.'' [+]

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James Wyeth - Maine Coon Cat

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James (Jamie) Wyeth (American b. 1946), Andy Warhol, 1976 

Gouache, watercolor, and pencil on board

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"T Minus 3 Hours 30 Minutes and Counting." Apollo 11 on the launch pad, 1969, painted by James Wyeth for the NASA Art Program.

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Self-Portrait by James Wyeth, 1979