bio

Ellie Wyeth began her career as an artist in New York City, where she took courses at Parson’s School of Design, the Art Student’s League and the School of Visual Arts.  She studied a variety of subjects ranging from anatomy and painting to humorous art, cartooning and illustration.  During this time she designed the posters for The Gathering Place, an actors’ studio and designed seasonal greeting cards on commission.

Since moving to Princeton in 1981 to the present she has worked steadily painting and illustrating.  Her illustrations have been published in:  NEW JERSEY, A Guide to the State, published by Rutgers University Press, IRONS IN THE FIRE, published by Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, and PRINCETON, The First 250 Years, published by Princeton  University Press.  Other clients have included The Eagleton Institute at Rutgers University, Princeton Medical Center, Lawrenceville School, Micawber Books, Nick Hilton Studio, and the YWCA of Princeton among other local businesses.

Ms. Wyeth’s paintings have been exhibited in juried exhibitions at the Phillips Mill Gallery, New Hope, Pa., the Coryell Gallery, Lambertville, NJ,  and the “Celebration of Women in Art” at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.  Other group exhibitions have included the Ann Reid gallery at Princeton Day School and the Ruth Morpeth Gallery.  She has been a member of Transformations for many years, a local fine arts and crafts group in Princeton.

Solo exhibitions have included The Chapin School gallery, Small World in Princeton, and Studio 233 in Lambertville, NJ.  Her work was on view at the Pen and Brush Gallery at 16 East 10 Street in New York in December 2002, which awarded her a solo exhibition in June, 2003.  In April 2004 her work was part of a group exhibit at the annual conference of the Garden Club of America in Washington, D.C.

Ms. Wyeth exhibitied her most recent work at the Prince Street Gallery, 530 West 25 Street in New York City for the month of February 2010. 

Ms. Wyeth has participated in two artist residency programs; in 2000 at the Vermont Studio Center and in 2005 at the International School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, Montecastello di Vibio, Umbria, Italy. 

Ms. Wyeth is currently the Assistant Director of the residency at the International School in Umbria, Italy and spends May and September in Italy.

Ms. Wyeth’s work is characterized by an eclectic use of media and a subject matter that is both whimsical and occasionally unexpected.  In addition to her paintings, which include still lifes, landscapes, animals, birds, horticulture and house portraits in a variety of media, she has her own line of handpainted cards, placemats, canvas floorcloths, fire screens and painted furniture that are available through her studio.