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Abundance/Excess: A Contemporary Eye on Still Life gathered works by 10 contemporary artists who drew on the legacy of still life painting in their practice. Still life has a long reputation as a genre for aesthetic experimentation, and the artists in Abundance/Excess continued...
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In the early twentieth century, John Sloan emerged as a key figure of the Ashcan School, a group of artists focused on portraying the unvarnished realities of modern life in New York City...
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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.
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The Brandywine premiered the first ever museum display of a monumental, rediscovered masterwork by the leading Hudson River School artist Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823–1900).
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This exhibition surveys the first decade of contemporary Baltimore artist Jerrell Gibbs’s career and marks his first one-person Museum exhibition.
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While the artistic term trompe l’oeil—meaning “to deceive the eye”—originated in France in 1800, artists have endeavored to create artworks that appear real enough to touch since antiquity.This exhibition explored techniques used by American artists from 1825 to the present to...
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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.
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Created by artists Leah Sobsey (based in Chapel Hill, NC) and Amanda Marchand (based in Brooklyn, NY), "This Earthen Door" was the culmination of a cross-disciplinary inquiry exploring renowned poet Emily Dickinson’s deep connection to the natural world.
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One of the artist Andrew Wyeth’s enduring legacies is his highly original response to the subject of the human body. Alongside his iconic landscapes and visionary responses to buildings, botany, and beyond, his figure paintings and drawings offer particular insight into how this unique creative journey took shape...
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Through photographs, letters, original art and books, this exhibition uncovered and celebrated the life and career of this outstanding cartoonist.
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In 1955, two photographers, Robert Frank and Todd Webb, received separate fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation for U.S. survey projects. Frank’s cross-country trip would result in the landmark book “The Americans.” Webb’s project remains almost entirely unknown.
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This exhibition explored the interdisciplinary creativity of Wharton Esherick (1887-1970), the famed American artist best known as the father of the Studio Furniture Movement.
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Andrew Wyeth’s unique place-based practice was rigorously focused on just two narrowly circumscribed regions across a long and productive career: the immediate environs of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania for the fall and winter and mid-coast Maine in the spring and summer.
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This exhibition was a dynamic retrospective of Frank Stewart’s photography that centers on his sensitive and spontaneous approach to portraying world cultures and Black life in many forms—including music, art, travel, food, and dance.
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Peter Paone (1936–2026) was an acclaimed Philadelphia artist and teacher who has mastered the mediums of painting, drawing, and printmaking over his seven-decade career...
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This exhibition traced a persistent vein of intriguing, often disconcerting imagery over the career of renowned artist Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946). Frequently countered and even hidden by Wyeth’s fuller body of work—particularly his well-known coastal views and farmscapes—the darker and more...
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