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“A State of Wondering”

On November 15th, the Brandywine River Museum had the pleasure of having Richard Meryman come to the museum for a lecture. Meryman, who had been a writer for Life magazine, among many other things, had done numerous interviews with the late Andrew Wyeth and has written books on the artist including his latest one: Andrew Wyeth: A Spoken Self- Portrait.
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Imagine Brandywine: Which is YOUR Favorite?

With each passing day, the temperature seems colder, the trees have less leaves and it gets darker earlier.

This would make a person rather sad and yet I have arrived every day this week with a big smile on my face the moment I enter the Brandywine River Museum.  This...

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Andrew Wyeth: A “Renaissance” Man

I recently finished working on a project so captivating that I didn’t want it to end. As mentioned in my previous blog, the Brandywine Research Center recently acquired several hundred letters written to Andrew Wyeth’s sister, Ann Wyeth McCoy. Twenty two of these letters are from Andrew, primarily from the 1940’s when Andrew was in his twenties and early thirties...
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First Impressions

 I was home from college for a weekend and decided to share the Brandywine River Museum with a couple of friends who had never visited.  

The Brandywine River Museum is home to American art by a number of well-known artists, some of whom lived in and...

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From Chadds Ford to NYC

Before moving to New York City I always had the comfort that there were some Wyeth paintings I could visit when I was homesick.

The Chadds Ford landscape has always been a comfort for me, and I never realized how lucky I was to grow up in such a beautiful environment....

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