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A CLOSER LOOKPortrait ofAndy WarholJamie Wyeth | 1976Oil on panelPortrait of JamieWyeth with TanBackgroundAndy Warhol | 1976Acrylic and silkscreenAndy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh on August 6, 1928. Warhol moved from Pittsburgh to New York inthe 1950s, and quickly became a successful commercial artist, best known for his illustrations of I. Miller shoes. By the1960s, he began to experiment with images of popular culture and mass media, creating large paintings and prints ofrecognizable images such as Campbell‟s soup cans, Marilyn Monroe and Coca-Cola bottles. To this day, he isconsidered one of the most prominent figures of the Pop Art movement.Jamie Wyeth was born on July 6, 1946 in Wilmington, Delaware. Surrounded by a family of artists (his father wasfamous American artist Andrew Wyeth), he left school after sixth grade to be tutored and devote more time to his art.By the time he was 18, his paintings hung in the permanent collections of the Wilmington Society of Art in Wilmington,Delaware, in the William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, and in several private collections.In 1973, he was part of a Wyeth Family exhibition at the Brandywine River Museum, which helped to draw furtherattention to his artwork. This was followed by a retrospective of his work from 1975-1976 at the Joslyn Art Museum inOmaha, Nebraska. In 1976, he met Andy Warhol during a dinner and the two artists decided to create portraits of eachother. They spent two months at “The Factory” (Warhol‟s studio) creating their paintings.ask your studentsPortrait of Leslie Cheek, Sr.Richard Jack (American, 1866-1952)N.D., Oil on canvasPortrait of Mabel CheekRaymond P.R. NeilsonN.D., Oil on canvasThese two portraits are of Leslie and Mabel Cheek, who built and lived at Cheekwood before it became aMuseum of Art. Use the questions below to engage your students in a conversation about portraits.What and who do you see in these portraits?What colors and shapes do you see in these paintings?Why do you think these portraits are located in the foyer of the Museum of Art?What can you learn about the sitters from looking at these portraits?What difficulties do you think the artist would have in painting portraits like these?7PORTRAIT