Thursday, September 6, 2018
Artists since antiquity have depicted, and often mimicked, the splendors of nature. Throughout the centuries, such representations have embodied the shifting relationship between humans and their natural surroundings. Nature has thus proved to be...
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By: Amanda C. Burdan, Associate Curator
During the course of planning Rural Modern, before there was a confirmed checklist of paintings that will appear in the exhibition, there was a wish list. Just like Christmas, while you hope to get everything on your wish list, you know inevitably you won’t....
Continue ReadingFriday, September 30, 2016
By: Liesl Reimann, Assistant Educator
There is a common misconception that a museum is not a place to bring a toddler. Here at the Brandywine River Museum of Art, we want to reassure you that not only is it appropriate to bring your little one to the museum, a museum visit has many benefits.
Continue ReadingFriday, September 23, 2016
By: Amanda C. Burdan, Associate Curator
Visitors to the N. C. Wyeth or Andrew Wyeth studios know just what a powerful experience it can be to stand in the place where a work of art was created. This applies not just to the artists’ studios, but to other places in the world where an artist set up an easel and...
Continue ReadingFriday, August 12, 2016
August is a special month at the Brandywine. Our gardens are painted purple and gold with an ongoing parade of butterflies of every species. The bubbling river is filled with laughing families in canoes. Trees planted on local farms last fall are beginning to peek over their protective shells....
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By: Christine B. Podmaniczky, Curator, N.C. Wyeth Collections and Historic Properties
From about mid-summer to mid-October, it’s common in the farm-centric Delaware and Chester counties of Pennsylvania to see haying going on...
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