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Kuerner Farm

Guest blogger Jessica Allen enjoys exploring the fields and forests of Pennsylvania with her artist-husband and their eleven-year-old son. 

A Sunday in early fall Jessica Allen attended a Brandywine River Museum of Art's...

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Ahoy! Pirate Adventure Day Is Almost Here

At the Brandywine River Museum of Art, there are few things we love quite the way we love pirates. The subjects of some of N.C. Wyeth’s most famous paintings, pirates are a special and exciting part of our history and we look forward to celebrating them every fall.
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Serendipity

Sometimes you come across something and all the puzzle pieces come together. Years ago, when compiling the complete catalogue of N. C. Wyeth’s work, I studied a painting titled The Lovers...
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First Signs of War

For a few months now, I’ve been fascinated with how World War I influenced the work of both N. C. Wyeth and Andrew Wyeth. Not too long ago, I visited a private collection to look closely at an extraordinary painting by N. C. Wyeth that raises interesting issues faced by many illustrators during...

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