Thursday, July 9, 2020
By: Liesl Mahoney, Associate Educator for School & Family Programs
Scratchboard is a great drawing surface that allows artists to draw while paying close attention to the types of lines they are using. The results vary from high contrast black and white, random rainbow effects or even looks that are more...
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By: Laura Westmoreland, Associate Educator
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...
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By: Tamanya Garza, Marketing & Social Media Specialist
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...
Continue ReadingMonday, May 8, 2017
By: Christine B. Podmaniczky, Curator, N.C. Wyeth Collections and Historic Properties
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...
Continue ReadingWednesday, April 19, 2017
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.Celebrating 50 YearsIn the mid-1960’s, Chadds...
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By: Christine B. Podmaniczky Curator, N.C. Wyeth Collections & Historic Properties
In the Brandywine River Museum of Art’s archives is the black and red ledger book that N. C. Wyeth used to document the purchase of his Chadds Ford property and the construction of his house, studio and barn. The first date on the ledger? March 1, 1911.
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