| The Brandywine River Museum Library includes unique resources related to a variety of American art and artists.
The Library contains approximately 3,500 volumes and approximately 22,000 additional items, including portfolios and scrapbooks, films and video tapes, sound cassettes and phonograph records, historic calendars and posters, exhibition posters and brochures, photographs, ephemera such as clippings, tear sheets, book jackets, and archival materials related to various artists. It also contains the Charles Scribners' Sons' card file regarding the illustrations commissioned by the publisher over many decades.
The reference room features books, exhibition catalogues and other printed materials relating to American art history and the Museum's history.
The Library is open by appointment to researchers, scholars, students, and others interested in using its resources for the study of topics related to American art history.
For information about the Brandywine River Museum Library call (610) 388-2700 or send email to: library@brandywine.org
PUBLICATIONS
BRANDYWINE RIVER MUSEUM
Brandywine River Museum: Catalogue of the Collection,
Various authors, Brandywine Conservancy, Inc., 1991.
Brandywine Critters: Nature Crafts From a Brandywine Christmas,
Edited by Donna A. Gormel and Lucinda C. Laird, Good Books, Inc., 1995.
The Brandywine River Museum,
Fort Church Publishers, 1997.
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OTHER AMERICAN ARTISTS & SUBJECTS
A Child's Garden of Dreams: An Exhibition of Children's Books and Their Original Illustrations from the Betsy B. Shirley Collection,
Essay by Betsy B. Shirley, Brandywine River Museum, 1989.
America's Great Women Illustrators,
Brandywine River Museum, 1985.*
Beyond Necessity: Art in the Folk Art Tradition,
Essays by Elaine Eff and Donald L. Fennimore, Brandywine River Museum and Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, 1977.*
The Art of American Illustration,
Essay by Joan H. Gorman, Brandywine River Museum, 1976.*
Clifford Ashley,
Essay by Elton W. Hall, Brandywine River Museum, 1973.*
A Visual Memoir: Prints and Drawings by Albert Winslow Barker,
Essay by Gillian Greenhil Hannum, Brandywine River Museum, 1993.
The Amanda K. Berls and Ruth A. Yerion Collection,
Essay by William H. Gerdts, Brandywine River Museum, 1980.
The Brandywine Heritage,
Introduction by Robert McLanathan, Brandywine River Museum with the New York Graphics Society, 1971.*
Charles Livingston Bull, Illustrator,
Essay by Peter White, Brandywine River Museum, 1981.*
Jefferson David Chalfant,
Essay by Joan H. Gorman, Brandywine River Museum, 1979.
Portraits and History Paintings of Alonzo Chappel,
Essays by Barbara J. Mitnick and David Meschutt, Brandywine River Museum, 1992.
George Cope,
Essay by Gertrude Grace Sill, Brandywine River Museum, 1978.
W.W. Denslow: The Other Wizard of Oz,
Essay by Michael Patrick Hearn, Brandywine River Museum, 1996.
Harvey Dunn,
Essay by Robert Karolevitz, Brandywine River Museum, 1974.*
Eakins at Avondale,
Various Authors, Brandywine River Museum, 1980.*
Arthur Burdett Frost, 1951-1928,
Essay by Gene E. Harris, Brandywine River Museum, 1985.
Charlotte Harding: An Illustrator in Philadelphia
Essay by Ann Barton Brown, Brandywine River Museum, 1982.
The American Paintings of Herman Herzog,
Essay by Donald J. Lewis, Jr., Brandywine River Museum, 1992.
Peter Hurd,
Essay by Paul Horgan, Brandywine River Museum, 1977.
Arthur I. Keller,
Essay by Gene E. Harris, Brandywine River Museum, 1988.
George Cochran Lambdin,
Essay by Ruth Irwin Weidner, Brandywine River Museum, 1986.
John McCoy: A Retrospective,
Essay by James H. Duff with Reflections by John McCoy, Brandywine River Museum, 1982.
Bird Sculpture in Wood by Grainger McKoy,
Essay by James Kilgo, Brandywine River Museum, 1993.
Franz de Merlier,
Essay by Joan H. Gorman, Brandywine River Museum, 1982.
Thornton Oakley,
Essay by Gene E. Harris, Brandywine River Museum, 1983.
The Art of Rose O'Neill,
Essay by Helen Goodman, Brandywine River Museum, 1989.
Maxfield Parrish: Master of Make-Believe,
Essay by Maxfield Parrish, Jr., Brandywine River Museum, 1974.*
Joseph Pennell, 1857-1926,
Essay by Gene E. Harris, Brandywine River Museum, 1986.
Horace Pippin,
Brandywine River Museum, 1977.*
Henry C. Pitz,
Essay by Patricia Likos, Brandywine River Museum, 1988.
Howard Pyle: A Teacher,
Essay by Ann Barton Brown, Brandywine River Museum, 1980.*
Howard Pyle: The Artist and His Legacy,
Brandywine River Museum and Delaware Art Museum, 1987.*
William Tylee Ranney East of the Mississippi,
Essay by Mark Thistlethwaite, Brandywine River Museum, 1991.
Laussat Richter Rogers,
Essays by Gene E. Harris and Thomas Beckman, Brandywine River Museum, 1986.
Painting in the Grand Manner: The Art of Peter Frederick Rothermel, 1812-1895,
Essay by Mark Thistlethwaite, Brandywine River Museum, 1995.
Barclay Rubincam Close Up,
Essay by Gene E. Harris with Reminiscences by Caroline Rubincam, Brandywine River Museum, 1996.
Walter Elmer Schofield: Bold Impressionist,
Essay by Thomas Folk, Brandywine River Museum, 1984.
Frank Schoonover, Illustrator,
Essay by Ann Barton Brown, Brandywine River Museum, 1979.
William Thomas Smedley, Illustrator,
Essay by Alan M. Pensler, Brandywine River Museum, 1981.
Alice Barber Stephens, A Pioneer Woman Illustrator,
Essay by Ann Barton Brown, Brandywine River Museum, 1984.*
Paul Westcott: Landscape and Marine Painter,
Essay by Stark Whiteley, Brandywine River Museum, 1989.
George A. Weymouth: A Retrospective,
Essay by Richard J. Boyle, Brandywine River Museum, 1991.
Women Artists in the Pyle Tradition,
Brandywine River Museum, 1975.*
OTHER ARTS
A Poor Sort of Heaven, A Good Sort of Earth: The Rose Valley Arts and Crafts Experiment,
Essay by William Ayres, Brandywine River Museum, 1983.
A Time to Mourn,
Brandywine River Museum, 1981.*
Of the Best Sort, But Plain: Quaker Quilts of the Delaware Valley, 1760-1890,
Essay by Patricia Keller, Brandywine River Museum, 1997.
Three Soviet Artists: Ugarov, Salakov, and Bisti,
Essay by Mikhail Nikolaevich Sokolov, Brandywine River Museum, 1988.
ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLICATIONS
A Field Guide to Common Grasses of Southeastern Pennsylvania,
by Elkins Wetherill and Jane Ebert, Brandywine Conservancy, Inc., 1995.
Grow Native Shrubs in Your Garden,
by F.M. Mooberry and Jane Scott. Brandywine Conservancy, Inc., 1980.
Landscaping with Native Plants in the Mid-Atlantic Region,
by Elizabeth N. du Pont, Brandywine Conservancy, Inc., 1978.*
Notes from Turtle Creek: A Collection of Essays,
by Ted Browning, Brandywine Conservancy, Inc., 1991.
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