Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm: The Eye of the Earth

June 22, 2025 - September 28, 2025
Andrew Wyeth, Wolf Moon, 1975. Watercolor on paper, 40 1/8 x 29 in. Collection of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art. © 2024 Wyeth Foundation for American Art/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Andrew Wyeth, First Snow, Study for Groundhog Day, 1959. Drybrush watercolor on paper, 13 3/8 x 21 1/8 in. Collection of the Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Phelps, 1964. 1964-12. © 2024 Wyeth Foundation for American Art/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Andrew Wyeth, Karl, 1948. Egg tempera on panel, 30 ½ x 23 ½ in. Promised gift to the Albuquerque Museum. © 2024 Wyeth Foundation for American Art/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Andrew Wyeth, Snow Hill, 1989. Egg tempera on panel, 48 x 72 in. Collection of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art. © 2024 Wyeth Foundation for American Art/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Over more than six decades, Kuerner Farm in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania inspired nearly 1,000 artworks in a wide variety of genres and media by Andrew Wyeth, including some of his most recognizable creations.

To mark the 25th anniversary of the transition of Kuerner Farm from a family home into a public site visited and sketched by thousands annually, the Brandywine (which owns Kuerner Farm) and Reynolda House Museum of American Art (itself the owner of an important Kuerner watercolor), have joined forces to co-organize Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm: The Eye of the Earth. This exhibition brings together some of the artist’s iconic Kuerner works like the temperas Karl and Snow Hill with masterpieces of the watercolor medium like Wolf Moon and First Snow, and some exciting works that are new to public display from private collections and the remarkable holdings of the Andrew & Betsy Wyeth Collection of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, which is managed by the Brandywine as of 2022.

Kuerner Farm stands a short walk from Andrew Wyeth’s studio. Through many years of immersion in this landscape, walking and sketching and gradually earning the trust of the Kuerner family, the artist gained unusual access to the property, inside and out, and took sustained inspiration from the layers of this landscape, the evocative farmhouse at its heart, and the people who lived and worked there. Through this source material, he honed in on some of the abiding concerns of his life’s work. The exhibition’s title comes from Wyeth’s recollections of this powerful place: “I recalled the marvelous amber color of the rich landscape and the lucid pond looking almost like the eye of the earth reflecting everything in creation.”

The dates and venues are as follows:

  • Reynolda House Museum of American Art: February 15–May 25, 2025
  • Brandywine Museum of Art: June 21–September 28, 2025
  • Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens: October 25, 2025–February 15, 2026

The exhibition is accompanied by a generously illustrated hardcover catalogue published by Rizzoli Electa with essays from William L. Coleman, Ph.D., the Brandywine’s Wyeth Foundation Curator and Director, Andrew & Betsy Wyeth Study Center; Allison Slaby, curator at Reynolda; Karen Baumgartner, Collection Manager in the Brandywine’s Andrew & Betsy Wyeth Study Center; and artist James Welling on the continuing inspiration of the Kuerner Farm. It is available through the Brandywine Museum store with a publication date of February 11th.

This exhibition is organized by the Brandywine Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA, and Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC, in association with the Wyeth Foundation for American Art.

Generous support for the exhibition is provided by Wells Fargo.

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