Scribner's Magazine:

The Early Years in Illustration

on view through May 20

The exhibition will introduce visitors to the importance of the illustrated magazine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and emphasize the primacy of Scribner’s Magazine during the “golden age of illustration.”  Scribner’s art editors hired the best artists and illustrators, and the exhibition will feature the works of many of these artists, among them Robert Blum, Charles Dana Gibson, Thornton Oakely, Rose O’Neill, Maxfield Parrish, Howard Pyle, Frank Schoonover, John H. Twachtman and N. C. Wyeth.  Scribner’s also kept pace with technological developments in printing, and the exhibition will show the effects of radical changes in printing techniques that occurred between 1887 and 1912.  The earliest illustrations in the magazine were reproduced as wood engravings.  By January 1912, the magazine routinely printed four color reproductions.

N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945), On the October Trail, For: Scribner’s (October 1908), oil on canvas, 1907, Brandywine River Museum,  Museum purchase

A Painter's View:

The Andrew Wyeth Studio

on view through October 28

This exhibition features the artist's own view of his studio in paintings and drawings lent from private collections. These works, created between 1943 and 2005, reflect Wyeth's interest in the building's spare and aged interior and reveal informal moments with individuals who often posed there. Of the approximately 20 paintings on display, half have never before been on view to the public. The gallery also includes many of the artist’s major works painted in the studio over his 70-year career.  For a list of works on display, please click here.  To purchase items related to the eshibition, please visit the online Museum Shop.

Pierced, Punched, Painted:

Decorative Tinware from Winterthur

May 26 through July 15

Long before the Tin Man character danced in The Wizard of Oz, the profession of tinsmith was an essential one in urban and rural America.  Craftsmen who worked the metal made a wide range of useful household items, including food containers and dining wares, baking tins and cookie cutters, candle holders and lanterns, bathing tubs, toys and whimsical ornaments.  Enormous quantities of plain, shiny tinware produced by manufacturers were used, worn out, and thrown away.  Most of the antique tinware that survives was cherished and preserved because it had lively painting or surface decoration.  This display of decorated tinware selected from the Winterthur Museum collection demonstrates how such humble material might appeal to every taste and delight its users.

Coffee pot, attributed to Harvey Filley workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1830−53, Courtesy Winterthur, bequest of Henry Francis du Pont (1959.2072).  Photo:  Laszlo Bodo.

Summer Sojourns: Art on Holiday

June 9 through September 3

This summer, visitors to the galleries will enjoy a visual journey to rocky sea coasts and sandy shores, tropical settings and mountainous vistas. They will also enjoy depictions of pastoral landscapes, European cities and villages, Middle-Eastern markets, Asian rice paddies, and bamboo forests. These scenes and more appear in the exhibition Summer Sojourns: Art on Holiday, which offers nearly 100 paintings, drawings, and prints from the collection.