Nicholas Wyeth Train Display

Two weeks only!

See Nicholas Wyeth’s historic tinplate train layout in the Museum atrium. 

Commissioned in 1976 as a Christmas gift for Nicholas Wyeth (b. 1943), older son of Andrew Wyeth, the 8x12' standard gauge layout was designed and built for the living room of his Manhattan apartment. 

In 2014, Nicholas Wyeth, who has a lifelong interest in modeling and continues to build and fly model airplanes, donated the train layout to the Brandywine River Museum of Art, where it has been recently enhanced with reproductions of a monorail and vintage racers. Standard gauge trains were introduced in 1906 by the Lionel Corporation, and the Wyeth train was made by Lionel in the 1920's.