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Father & Son Artists On Display Together In Wyeth Exhibit

DENVER (CBS4)- A new exhibit at the Denver Art Museum is putting a father and son together for a unique experience.

"To mix in with my father's work is very unique," said artist Jamie Wyeth.

For the first time ever, father and son, Andrew and Jamie Wyeth's art is hanging side by side in a museum.

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"I think he'd be thrilled with it because it's unique, particularly with his work showing in this vein," said Jamie Wyeth.

"These two artists were quite complex and in having a really fine, precise artistic sensibility but also a great messiness ," said Dr. Timothy J. Standring, Gates Foundation Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Denver Arts Museum.

The "Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in the Studio" exhibit unfolds like a movie with each room telling a different story.

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"After they see these paintings, and just go, 'Oh and ahh' and have the richest dinner conversations about this exhibition," said Standring. "Shock and awe for visual arts of these two extraordinary artists."

They share the same name and similar inspirations but displayed together each artist stands alone.

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CBS4's Lauren Whitney interviews artist Jamie Wyeth (credit: CBS)

"I love his work. I think we're quite different as painters, we have a quite different approach, different mediums, different compositions and so forth, there is a thread through it all," said Jamie Wyeth.

Visitors will find the traditional style of both artists, while also seeing Jamie taking on new themes and mediums.

"That's the excitement and the obsession. It is an opiate for me," said Jamie Wyeth.

Ten decades of work from two artists, more than contemporaries... father and son.

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Andrew and Jamie Wyeth (credit: CBS)

"So you've got farm animals, you have landscapes, you've got portraits, but it's not simply slavish imitation of those, but a real poetic response to those objects they were depicting the two places where they were painting, mostly Pennsylvania as well as Maine," said Standring.

The Denver Art Museum is one of 14 museums participating in Denver Arts Week.

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