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 MoreFor 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...
It is July 8, 2015 and contemporary photographer James Welling is making one of his final site visits to the Brandywine Museum of Art. He is here working on a project developed for the Museum as a part of his exhibition Things Beyond Resemblance: James Welling...
Just before my arrival at Brandywine Museum of Art I was working in Connecticut at the Florence Griswold Museum, where I had just mounted a major exhibition on the photographer
West Chester, Pennsylvania is an unusual place.
Even with a growing population of nearly 19,000 the borough has retained a unique character, something that becomes apparent when you first visit. Architecturally, many of the historic downtown buildings stand intact,...