On view in Brandywine's Strawbridge Family Gallery, this exhibition was a celebration of what connects us during the holiday season—opportunities to gather under one roof and the sharing of warm messages from afar.
Tiny Treasures
Home for the Holidays featured a selection of Brandywine's dollhouses, including two rooms from a nine-foot dollhouse designed by Ann Wyeth McCoy and built by her husband, artist John McCoy. Filled with handmade furnishings and miniature paintings contributed by Wyeth McCoy's famously artistic siblings and in-laws, these dollhouse rooms were a communal, family endeavor that paid tribute to the Wyeths' close-knit holiday gatherings. These two rooms were accompanied by the debut of the Peters-Herdeg dollhouse, a detailed replica of an eighteenth-century Brandywine Valley house and a recent addition to the Museum's collection.
From Mailbox to Museum
The exhibition also featured original artworks created as designs for holiday cards by members of the Wyeth family of artists, as well as those by other prominent American illustrators, all drawn from the collections of the Brandywine Museum of Art and the Wyeth Foundation for American Art.