January 27, 2018 to June 3, 2018
In addition to his roles as founder and board chairman of the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art, a philanthropist, and a land and cultural conservationist, George A. "Frolic" Weymouth (1936-2016) was a highly talented artist.This landmark exhibition of approximately sixty-five of...
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October 7, 2017 to January 7, 2018
This year, the Brandywine River Museum of Art celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, acknowledging a period of extraordinary innovation and growth. Capping the anniversary year is this survey of recent additions to the permanent collection. Recent Acquisitions includes works of art...
Read More![Ana Vizcarra Rankin, World Map [extraordinary rendition], 2014, collage packing tape, 11x17in (framed)](https://www.brandywine.org/sites/default/files/styles/block_img_sm/public/images/exhibitions/AV%20Rankin_World%20map%20%5Bextraordinary%20rendition%5D.jpg?itok=pnaxOGJ3 "Ana Vizcarra Rankin, World Map [extraordinary rendition], 2014, collage packing tape, 11x17in (framed)")
October 7, 2017 to November 5, 2017
time/scale is the first solo museum exhibition of new and recent works by Uruguayan-American artist Ana Vizcarra Rankin (b. 1977, Maldonado), presented by Philadelphia Contemporary and hosted by the Brandywine River Museum of Art. In large-scale paintings and hand-crafted collages of...
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October 7, 2017 to January 7, 2018
Dylan Gauthier: highwatermarks, the first US solo museum project by the Brooklyn-based artist Dylan Gauthier (b. 1979, Los Angeles), centers on an immersive video and audio installation that was planned, filmed, and edited during the artist’s year-long residency at the Brandywine River...
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June 24, 2017 to September 17, 2017
To mark the 100th anniversary of Andrew Wyeth’s birth, the Brandywine River Museum of Art and the Seattle Art Museum organized an exhibition of over one hundred of his finest paintings and works on papers selected from major museums and private collections.
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May 6, 2017 to May 29, 2017
Drawn from the collection of Wilbur Chocolate, of Lititz, Pennsylvania, this exhibition showcases the art of consuming chocolate in its many forms.
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February 25, 2017 to May 21, 2017
This exhibition celebrates the rich diversity of styles created by masters of the modern movement in American art in this exhibition of fifty-four paintings made between 1870 and 1950.
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October 29, 2016 to January 22, 2017
Rural Modern explores the adaptation of modernist styles to subject matter associated with the American countryside.Treatments of coastal New England, small-town Pennsylvania, Midwestern farms, and other rural regions of the country illustrate the dispersal of canonical modernist...
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July 1, 2016 to October 9, 2016
From the sublime to the ridiculous, with remarkable creativity and wit, children’s picture book art appeals to young and old alike...
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May 28, 2016 to September 8, 2016
Since antiquity, humans have been fascinated by the beauty of flowers. They created special containers to hold the blooms, reproduced flat images of flora on surfaces or, alternatively, modeled flowers in three dimensions...
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April 8, 2016 to September 10, 2017
This exhibition presents over twenty-five important works of American art from Richard M. Scaife, a Pittsburgh philanthropist and former trustee of the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art.
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March 19, 2016 to June 12, 2016
Masterworks by Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, John F. Kensett, William T. Richards, William L. Sonntag, and other giants of the Hudson River School...
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August 29, 2015 to February 7, 2016
Throughout his seven-decade career, Andrew Wyeth was constantly inspired by two regions—Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, where he had lived since birth, and Cushing, Maine, where he had spent each summer...
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August 8, 2015 to November 15, 2015
In conjunction with the exhibition Things Beyond Resemblance: James Welling Photographs, the Brandywine River Museum of Art commissioned Welling to create a site-specific installation that explores the intersection of photography and sculpture...
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August 8, 2015 to November 15, 2015
In 2010, Los Angeles-based artist James Welling (b. 1951) initiated a series of color photographs inspired by the painter Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009).Welling began the Wyeth series as an examination of Andrew Wyeth’s formative influence on Welling’s career, from his earliest...
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May 23, 2015 to August 16, 2015
During the Age of Exploration, the motto “Plus Ultra” reflected the belief that there was “more beyond” the known realm...
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