Brandywine River Museum - N. C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, Jamie Wyeth, Wyeth, American illustration

Exhibiting American art in a 19th-century grist mill, the Brandywine River Museum is internationally known for its unparalleled collection of works by three generations of Wyeths and its fine collection of American illustration, still life and landscape painting.

EXHIBITIONS:

Comic Catharsis:

A Gift of Cartoons by William Steig

on view through

March 11

Brandywine Heritage Galleries
Paintings and drawings from the museum's collection, including works by Howard Pyle, his students, and other distinguished American artists such as Jasper Cropsey, William Trost Richards, Maxfield Parrish, Harvey Dunn and Jessie Willcox Smith.

Andrew Wyeth Gallery
Approximately 40 watercolor, dry brush and tempera paintings by Andrew Wyeth from various stages of his career, including some not on public view for decades.
Portrait and Still Life Gallery
Paintings by still life artists, including William Harnett and Severin Rosen, and portraits by Bass Otis, Gilbert Stuart and others.

Scribner's Magazine: The Early Years

in Illustration

March 17 through

May 20

Bayard and Mary Sharp Gallery
Paintings by Jamie Wyeth, Carolyn Wyeth, Henriette Wyeth, Peter Hurd, John McCoy and George A. Weymouth.

N.C. Wyeth Gallery

Approximately 40 paintings and illustrations by N.C. Wyeth including works for Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Last of the Mohicans.

The Brandywine Conservancy is committed to the belief that preservation and wise use of natural and cultural resources provides health, education, beauty, and increased quality of life for individuals and communities. The Conservancy assures present and future generations of open space, dependable water supplies, historical sites, and important works of American art, and also provides an understanding of the meaning and potential of these things, both separately and in relation to each other. The Conservancy preserves, protects, interprets, utilizes and displays these resources through its Brandywine River Museum and Environmental Management Center.

TOURS & EVENTS:

Read-Aloud Tours,

Thursdays, starting

February 2

Art and the Environment Lecture Series,

March 14, 21 & 28

Free admission on

Sunday mornings

9:30 a.m. to noon

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