Andy Warhol, as depicted by Chadds Ford artist Jamie Wyeth, is now available for public viewing in a New York gallery, 50 years after Phylllis Wyeth hid the artwork from view in their Chadds Ford home.
Wyeth met and befriended Warhol in New York City after leaving his parents’ Chadds Ford home in 1965 at age 19, writes Bedatri D. Choudhury for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
In 1975, the artists painted portraits of one another in a face-off.
Wyeth’s wife, Phyllis, stored away at least 11 of Wyeth’s portraits of Warhol in the back of her closet. The box was unopened until 2022, three years after her death in 2019.
There were also portraits of Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer Rudolf Nureyev, Warhol’s manager Frederick W. Hughes, and actress Candy Darling.
Jamie Wyeth found “The Stash” while cleaning his Chadds Ford home. They are now on display at New York’s Schoelkopf Gallery until Oct. 17.
“She stole them from me,” Wyeth said of his wife, with a laugh. “When I was working on those, I was in a frenzy. And I didn’t keep track of where things went, and she was particularly interested in Nureyev.”
Read more about this treasure trove of hidden art in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
