Teels Island, 1954 drybrush on paper
Major Programs and Grants
The Wyeth Foundation for American Art has provided major support for the following projects:
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Wyeth Predoctoral Fellowship
The Wyeth Foundation supports the Wyeth Predoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM). This one-year fellowship is awarded for the advancement and completion of a doctoral dissertation in American art and may carry with it a subvention that helps underwrite the publication of a book based on the Wyeth Fellow's dissertation.
Click here for more information related to the SAAM Wyeth Predoctoral Fellowship program.
The National Gallery of Art: Wyeth Predoctoral Fellowship
The Wyeth Foundation supports the Wyeth Predoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art. One fellowship is awarded annually for 24 months. The fellowship is intended for the advancement and completion of a doctoral dissertation that concerns aspects of art of the United States, including native and pre-Revolutionary America. The Wyeth Fellow is expected to spend one year of the fellowship period on dissertation research in the United States or abroad, and one year at the Center to complete the dissertation. In conjunction with the Fellowship, the Wyeth Foundation may also provide a publication subvention for first-time authors.
Click here for more information on the Wyeth Predoctoral Fellowship program at the National Gallery of Art.
National Gallery of Art: Wyeth Lectures and Symposia in American Art
Since 2003, the Wyeth Foundation has provided financial support to the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. by sponsoring scholarly gatherings in the form of an annual lecture or symposium (in alternating years) related to important topics in American art.
Hosted by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, descriptions (as well as video recordings in many cases) of recent lectures and symposia can be found on CASVA's website.
Released December 3, 2021, Dr. Patricia Marroquin Norby (Purépecha), associate curator of Native American art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, delivered the 2021 Wyeth Lecture in American Art and shared her vision for and approaches to collecting, presenting, and interpreting Native American art at the Met and beyond. A video of Dr. Norby's lecture is available on the National Gallery's Youtube channel.
College Art Association: Wyeth Publication Grant
Since 2005, the Wyeth Foundation has provided financial support to the College Art Association (CAA) for Publication Grants to help scholars publish books about American art (defined as art created in the United States, Canada, and Mexico). These books have been accepted by a publisher on their merits, but cannot be published in their most desirable form without a subsidy. The annual application deadline is September 15th.
The College Art Association recently announced the 2021 Wyeth Foundation Publication Grant award winners. CAA also makes available a list of all Wyeth Foundation Publication Grant award winners from 2005 to the present here.
Click here for more information about the Wyeth Publication Grant administered by the CAA.
N. C. Wyeth Catalogue Raisonné
The Wyeth Foundation provided major financial support to the Brandywine River Museum to publish the N. C. Wyeth Catalogue Raisonné in print and to maintain the online version.
Researched and written by Christine B. Podmaniczky, the Museum's Curator for N. C. Wyeth Collections and Historic Properties, the printed catalogue documents 1,922 paintings by Newell Convers Wyeth with references to resources available through the summer of 2007. The publication is divided into chronological groups of paintings--illustrations, murals and architectural decoration, advertising images, landscapes, still lifes, and personal work, with works listed chronologically within each group. A detailed entry for each painting includes a reproduction of the work, a physical description, exhibition history, provenance (the history of ownership), and other information of particular interest to scholars, collectors, and admirers of N. C. Wyeth's work.
Click here to visit the Brandywine River Museum website where you can find more information on this project including the online version of the Catalogue Raisonné.
Recent Illustrative Grants
David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland, College Park - the Foundation awarded a $5,000 grant to support the conservation of the 1889 work "Landscape with Two People Walking" by Edward Mitchell Bannister.
Gettysburg College - the Foundation awarded an $8,000 grant to support the catalogue for the upcoming traveling exhibition Across the West and Toward the North: Norwegian and American Landscape Photography.
Greenwich Historical Society - the Foundation awarded an $18,500 grant to support the catalogue for the upcoming exhibition Life and Art: The Paintings of John Henry Twachtman.
Krannert Art Museum (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) - the Foundation awarded a $5,800 grant to support the print and online brochure for the upcoming exhibition Pressing Issues: Printmaking as Social Justice in 1930s United States.
Penobscot Marine Museum - the Foundation awarded a $25,000 to support the Kosti Comes Home: The Work of Maine's Legendary Photographer Rediscovered project.
Princeton University Art Museum - the Foundation awarded a $12,500 grant to support the catalogue for the upcoming exhibition The Power of LIFE: Life Magazine and American Photography, 1936-1972.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - the Foundation awarded a $20,000 grant to support the catalogue for the upcoming exhibition Joan Mitchell: Fierce Beauty.
University of California Press - the Foundation awarded a $5,000 grant to support the publication of The Fruits of Empire: Art, Food, and the Politics of Race in the Age of American Expansion, a scholarly monograph by former pre-doctoral Wyeth Fellow Shana Klein, Ph.D.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts - the Foundation awarded a $25,000 grant to support the catalogue for the exhibition Edward Hopper and the American Hotel.
Whitney Museum of American Art - the Foundation awarded a $15,000 grant to support the catalogue for the upcoming exhibition Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Reshape American Art, 1925-1945.