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Jamie Wyeth (b 1946), “Anger (The Seven Deadly Sins), 2005, combined mediums on handwoven toned paper on archival board, 36 by 26 inches.

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Jamie Wyeth (b 1946), “1822 Chadwick House,” 2007, combined mediums on handwoven toned paper on archival board, 24 by 18 inches.

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Flat sided yellowlegs by Elmer Crowell purchased directly from Crowell by the consignor’s father.

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Larger than typical Elmer Crowell miniatures purchased directly from Crowell by the consignor’s father.

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Pair of canvasbacks by Ken Anger, Dunville, Ontario.

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JAMIE WYETH’S ‘SEVEN DEADLY SINS’ AT ADELSON GALLERIES MARCH 14 w/2 cuts

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NEW YORK CITY — For more than 40 years, Jamie Wyeth (b 1946) has attracted attention with his paintings of subjects and places that have mesmerized him: life on his Pennsylvania farm, the surroundings of his island home in Maine the scene around Andy Warhol’s Factory in New York City and elsewhere.

Since 2005, Wyeth has been at work interpreting, among other subjects, time-honored biblical tradition, and the results will be seen in “Seven Deadly Sins: The Recent Work of Jamie Wyeth,” an exhibition and sale of approximately 30 new works, on view March 14–April 18 at Adelson Galleries. As an ensemble, these works create a portrait of the artist today and tap in to today’s culture — with all its frailties and moral ambiguities — in an inescapably uneasy manner.

“Jamie combines an edgy realism and a sense of place with an overarching moral tone that is at once ambiguous and haunting,” said Warren Adelson, president of Adelson Galleries.

In the series of works that comprises “The Seven Deadly Sins,” as in many of his paintings, the artist uses seagulls to represent the human condition. Of these birds he has said, “What I love about gulls is what most people dislike about gulls: I love the fact that they’re scavengers, they’re garbage pickers, they’re pirates…Living on this island, I’m able to completely tune into them.”

In these chilling and graphic works, for instance, two birds can be seen with beaks open in screams of “Anger,” another bird’s throat distends as it tries to consume a fish in “Gluttony” and a grisly spectacle of birds swarming carrion while the foreground bird is sedentary represent “Sloth.”

“Inferno,” the largest painting in the exhibition at 60 by 80 inches, a work on cardboard completed in 2006, depicts an invasion of gulls swarming around burning trash — a scene that seems at odds with the fresh coastal scene — while a local Maine boy stokes the blaze, seemingly unaffected by the attack all around him that appears straight out of a Hitchcock film.

Another works in “Seven Deadly Sins: The Recent Work of Jamie Wyeth” is “Fred Hughes and Andy Warhol,” 2005. This oil on canvas is an homage to the artist, who Wyeth first met in the 1960s (Jamie was one of only two painters working at The Factory Beside Warhol; Jean-Michel Basquiat was the other).

A contemporary realist painter, Jamie Wyeth is also a third-generation artist and member of the famed American artistic dynasty. Though many of his works reflect the eternal beauty of the Maine Landscape or the enduring dignity of domestic animals and wildlife, others are intensely of their time, depicting important individuals and cultural events in the late Twentieth and early Twenty-First Centuries.

Adelson Galleries is at 19 East 82nd Street. For information, 212-439-6800 or www.adelsongalleries.com.