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EDITOR’S NOTE
Family Ties
With his October 2020 photo shoot in Chadds Ford, Pa.,
Jim Graham has achieved a coveted familial triumvirate
of sorts. He’d already photographed Andrew Wyeth and his son, Jamie. And for this issue, he was able to convince Andrew’s only grandchild to sit for a revelatory set of images taken on Wyeth land. “I’ve known Jamie and Andrew since I was a child,” says The Hunt’s contributing editor. “Jamie would come to Chadds Ford Elementary School and judge art classes and occasionally teach. He taught me art when I was in fourth grade.”
There’s really nothing that embodies our region’s mystique more than the Wyeths. “Our artistic visual legacy is led by them,” Graham says.
Graham considers Jamie a friend, and he crossed paths with Andrew multiple times. “I have wonderful memories of Andy,” he notes. “The couple of times I photographed him were intimidating. I thought, ‘I may never get a shot at this—and I can’t screw it up.’”
As for Victoria, Graham recalls a moment at George A. “Frolic” Weymouth’s home. “She was 22 or 23, and she walked into a party at Frolic’s and every head turned. It was like a ray of sunshine walking into the room,” he says. “I’ve always thought we should do a story about her. She has the oral history of the family. She’s also a very good photographer.”
Even so, Victoria was nervous about the shoot. “We got together to do test shots. She had an idea of how she should look—I had an idea of who she is,” says Graham. “At first, she gave me a deadpan look. She had makeup on; I asked her to take it off. She put her hair back. That was it. That was the real her.”
On that fall day, they focused on the granary, mill and house on her grandfather’s property. “There’s one picture of her sitting on a windowsill in the granary,” Graham says. “She adores that picture—and so do I.”
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