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: Tamanya Garza, Marketing and Social Media Specialist
One of the most exciting and fulfilling parts of working at the Brandywine River Museum of Art is getting to see the impact we have on the children who visit. Through our Education Department we get to see children rise through the ranks from wee little sprouts at our Read-Aloud programs, to...
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By: Christine B. Podmaniczky, Curator, N.C. Wyeth Collections and Historic Properties
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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By: Christine B. Podmaniczky, Curator, N.C. Wyeth Collections and Historic Properties
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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By: Virginia H. O’Hara, Curator of Collections & Coordinator of Curatorial Affairs
It is late July. An exciting shipment of watercolor paintings by Andrew Wyeth, being lent from the Wyeth Center in Rockland, Maine, have just arrived. The excitement stems from the fact that the works are from Mrs. Andrew Wyeth’s private collection at the Center and seldom leave Maine. They have rarely been shown in Chadds Ford.
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By: Stephen Ruszkowski, Preparator
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 Photographs...
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