Jamie Wyeth’s Intimate Portraits of Andy Warhol and Rudolf Nureyev To Display at Schoelkopf Gallery
The exhibition opens this week.
Summary
- First major solo show unveiling hidden 1976–77 portraits of Andy Warhol and Rudolf Nureyev by Jamie Wyeth
- The exhibition runs from September 12 to October 17, 2025 at Schoelkopf Gallery in New York City
Jamie Wyeth‘s Portraits of Andy Warhol and Rudolf Nureyev marks Schoelkopf Gallery’s first major solo exhibition of the artist’s portraiture. Nearly fifty years after his late wife Phyllis Mills Wyeth tucked these works away following the 1976 Portraits of Each Other show, this remarkable cache of silken realist renderings emerges for the first time. On display are Wyeth’s intimate studies of two 20th-century luminaries: Pop Art pioneer Andy Warhol and ballet icon Rudolf Nureyev — each revealing the painter’s profound kinship with his subjects.
The exhibition revisits Wyeth’s exchange with Warhol during the heyday of the Factory era. In 1976, the two artists painted each other for a raucous opening at New York’s Coe Kerr Gallery, where crowds stretched from 82nd Street around to Madison Avenue — prompting The New York Times to quip, “At Gallery, The Crowd Was Ogling Itself.” While Warhol’s silkscreen portrait of Wyeth brimmed with celebrity sheen, Wyeth’s unflinching realism captured Warhol’s wonder-struck humanity, underscoring their mutual respect and artistic dialogue.
In 1977, Wyeth turned his gaze to Rudolf Nureyev, forging an unlikely friendship when the dancer stayed at Wyeth’s Maine farmhouse. Describing Nureyev’s off-stage magnetism as “having a panther in the house,” Wyeth produced some of his most dynamic, energetically charged canvases. Accompanied by key works from across his career and scholarly contributions by Patricia Junker, this exhibition offers a rare window into Wyeth’s enduring fascination with the personal narratives – “ghosts”- of those he painted.
The Jamie Wyeth: Portraits of Andy Warhol and Rudolf Nureyev exhibition is opening on September 12 and will remain on view through October 17, 2025.
Schoelkopf Gallery
390 Broadway 3rd floor, New York,
NY 10013, United States
