“Jamie Wyeth and the Unflinching Eye” depicts the life and work of Jamie Wyeth, heir to a three-generation dynasty of painters, who has carved out a singular path in the art world. His subjects include John F. Kennedy, Andy Warhol, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rudolf Nureyev, animals on his farm and on the islands of Maine, all through his unique, and sometimes unsettling, lens.
“Jamie Wyeth and the Unflinching Eye” is the first feature length documentary that embraces the full scope of the American artist’s life and work.
The filmmaking team had unprecedented access to the artist, his personal archives as well those of his distinguished artist family members. The film is rich in archival footage that creates a sense of time and place. It is packed with sketches, drawings and paintings from the artist’s oeuvre, to illustrate the breadth and depth of his work to date. Layers of complexity in the art are revealed and celebrated by family members and some of the most preeminent scholars of American art.
Like his father, and his father before him, Jamie Wyeth’s early works show a clear individual talent. The film asks “What does it mean to be born a Wyeth? How do you move forward as an artist to create your own voice with such a strong and beloved family lineage?
“Jamie Wyeth and the Unflinching Eye” answers those questions by placing Jamie Wyeth in his own artistic heritage as well as in the wider field of American art.