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Past Exhibitions

Past Exhibitions

Royal Lacey Scoville (ca. 1871- 1938), Untitled (ca. 1915), water- color and ink on illustration board, Collection of the Brandywine River Museum, gift of Jonathan Godfrey Wells, III, and Peter Scoville Wells, Sr., 2005.

The Imaginary Beasts of Royal Lacey Scoville

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This special exhibition presented 38 whimsical watercolors that form an original narrative written and illustrated by Royal Lacey Scoville for his daughter Eleanore. Based on the style of Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, and Peter Newell, Scoville tells the story of the Lazy Tom...

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Robert C. Jackson: Target the Artist, 2009 Oil on linen, 40 x 30 inches. Collection of the artist

Reality Check: Contemporary American Trompe l'Oeil

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The Brandywine River Museum of Art's collection includes numerous examples of the realist tradition known as "trompe l'oeil." A French term meaning "to fool the eye," trompe l'oeil applies to art that cleverly fools viewers into thinking they are looking at actual objects rather than...

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