Tucked away on the second floor of the Museum, the Walter & Leonore Annenberg Research Center is a treasure trove of scholarship, books, and special collections. The collection includes unique resources related to a variety of American art and artists, with special emphasis on illustration,...
Read MoreAround this time each year at the Brandywine River Museum of Art, we take an opportunity to help local families “fall” in love with reading and spending time at the Museum through our Children’s...
Most new education programs at Brandywine develop from ideas inspired by participant feedback from past events or conversations between staff and museum visitors. Others ideas develop simply by knowing, relating to, and understanding the interests and needs of those who are frequent visitors to...
Pianist and composer Catherine Marie Charlton spent years immersing herself in the history and art of the Wyeth family, and maintaining a daily practice of "Wyeth Walks" in the scenic Pennsylvania Brandywine Valley, where Andrew Wyeth also...
In early May, 1917, less than a month after the United States entered World War I, N. C. Wyeth wrote to his family in Needham that “the publicity Department of the U. S. Navy has asked for work--it must be rushed to be of service....Today I completed a large mural poster, 6 x 10 feet, of the...
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art this year, a number of collectible art reproductions, which have been kept safely in storage, are reappearing again for the first time in five decades.
In the mid-1960’s, Chadds...