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Jamie Wyeth American, b. 1946 Treasure Island Signed and inscribed For Lincoln/From One Pirate to Another/Jamie Watercolor and ink on paper laid to board 9 x 13 1/2 inches Provenance: Gift of the artist to Lincoln Kirstein Thence by descent to the present owner At the suggestion of his friend, Andrew Wyeth, the impresario Lincoln Kirstein commissioned the artist's sixteen-year-old son, Jamie Wyeth, to paint his portrait, now included in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. While Kirstein's greatest legacy is in the field of dance, he maintained a lifelong interest in twentieth century art. Indeed, he wrote extensively about the visual arts, preparing monographs, essays and books on artists as diverse as Pavel Tchiletchew, Elie Nadelman, Gaston Lachaise, Walker Evans, Henri Cartier-Bresson, W. Eugene Smith, George Tooker, Paul Cadmus, and Jamie Wyeth. Kirstein and the younger Wyeth remained friends. Indeed, the initial inspiration for Wyeth's recent series, The Seven Deadly Sins derives from a series of paintings exploring the same theme by Kirstein's brother-in-law, Paul Cadmus, which he had seen many years earlier in the hallway of Kirstein's Manhattan home. The present works were the gift of Jamie Wyeth to the great impresario. Several are painted on the title pages of books illustrated by Jamie's grandfather, Newell Convers Wyeth, each inspired by the theme of the volume from which the page is drawn. Thus, they constitute a charming tribute to both the great Wyeth legacy and a lasting friendship.