Monday, December 17, 2018
Both children and adults alike have treasured memories of those favorite, delightfully illustrated stories we take off the bookshelves at special times of the year.
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By: Tamanya Garza, Marketing and Social Media Specialist
At the Brandywine River Museum of Art, there are few things we love quite the way we love pirates. The subjects of some of N.C. Wyeth’s most famous paintings, pirates are a special and exciting part of our history and we look forward to celebrating them every fall.
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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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