Wondrous Strange: The Wyeths

Art lecturer Bob Potter will present Wondrous Strange – The Wyeths: N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth and Jamie Wyeth and the legacy of three generations of this famous family of American artists through examples of their paintings, personal accounts of their lives, and videos of the artists explaining their work.

Beginning with the swashbuckling illustrations by N.C. Wyeth for Robert Lewis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, Kidnapped and other classics, followed by his son Andrew Wyeth’s evocative paintings of the people and landscapes of rural Pennsylvania and the seacoast of Maine, and continuing with Jamie Wyeth whose portraits capture the wondrous strange of his father and grandfather’s works in his own unique vision and mastery of painting.

Art Lecture Presenter Bob Potter is a graduate of Syracuse University’s School of Visual and Performing Arts. He started his career as an art director at Scholastic Magazines and later marketing executive for Time Warner, National Geographic and as a corporate development officer for the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. He helped create an innovative art therapy program for Save The Children, launched a professional development program for art students at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts and continues as a docent at the Yale Center for British Art. He and his wife Jeanne, who is a master watercolor artist and teacher, live in Old Lyme, Connecticut.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.