Portrait of President John F. Kennedy
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Signed by James (Jamie) Wyeth, this limited edition piece 4 of 100 is in pristine condition. Framed: 30"X41" Print: 20"X32" (approximately) Born in 1946, James Browning Wyeth came of age when themeaning of patriotism was clouded by the traumas of the Vietnam War and thescandals of Watergate. Working in an era of turmoil and questioning of governmental authority, his art encompassed both marching off to war and marching in protest. In 1967, Wyeth painstakingly composed a haunting, posthumous "Portrait of President John F. Kennedy" that seems to catch the martyred Chief Executive in a moment of agonized indecision. As Wyeth Center curator Lauren Raye Smith points out, Wyeth "did not deify the slain president, [but] on the contrary made him seem almost too human." Based on hours of study and sketching of JFK's brothers Robert and Edward - documented by insightful studies in the exhibition - the final, pensive portrait seemed too realistic to family members and friends. "His brother Robert," writes Smith in the exhibition catalogue, "reportedly felt uneasy about this depiction, and said it reminded him of the President during the Bay of Pigs invasion." In spite of these misgivings, James's JFK likeness has been reproduced frequently. The poignancy, appeal and perceptiveness of this portrait, painted when the youngest Wyeth was 21
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