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Crafting A Creative Collaboration
Take a peek behind the scenes of an exciting new exhibition in the making with Brandywine’s Senior Curator, Amanda C. Burdan, Ph.D.
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Ahoy! Pirate Adventure Day Is Almost Here
At the Brandywine River Museum of Art, there are few things we love quite the way we love pirates. The subjects of some of N.C. Wyeth’s most famous paintings, pirates are a special and exciting part of our history and we look forward to celebrating them every fall.
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From Sprout to Spider: Local Artist Gets Her Start at the Brandywine River Museum of Art
One of the most exciting and fulfilling parts of working at the Brandywine River Museum of Art is getting to see the impact we have on the children who visit. Through our Education Department we get to see children rise through the ranks from wee little sprouts at our Read-Aloud programs, to...
Serendipity
Sometimes you come across something and all the puzzle pieces come together. Years ago, when compiling the complete catalogue of N. C. Wyeth’s work, I studied a painting titled The Lovers...
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First Signs of War
For a few months now, I’ve been fascinated with how World War I influenced the work of both N. C. Wyeth and Andrew Wyeth. Not too long ago, I visited a private collection to look closely at an extraordinary painting by N. C. Wyeth that raises interesting issues faced by many illustrators during...
Bringing “Natural Selections” Together
It is late July. An exciting shipment of watercolor paintings by Andrew Wyeth, being lent from the Wyeth Center in Rockland, Maine, have just arrived. The excitement stems from the fact that the works are from Mrs. Andrew Wyeth’s private collection at the Center and seldom leave Maine. They have rarely been shown in Chadds Ford.
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