Brandywine Museum of Art

Brandywine Museum of Art Discover Wyeth and American art on view in our galleries and tour the N.C. Wyeth House & Studio, Andrew Wyeth Studio and more. www.brandywine.org/museum

Wishing you and yours a peaceful and relaxing Labor Day!🎨: Herman Herzog (1832 - 1932), The Sanctuary -- Adams Brook, ca...
09/07/2026

Wishing you and yours a peaceful and relaxing Labor Day!

🎨: Herman Herzog (1832 - 1932), The Sanctuary -- Adams Brook, ca. 1880, oil on canvas mounted on board. collections.brandywine.org

It's time for another Sunday Funday at the Brandywine! Join us today (9/6) for "Free First Sunday at Brandywine" and enj...
09/06/2026

It's time for another Sunday Funday at the Brandywine! Join us today (9/6) for "Free First Sunday at Brandywine" and enjoy free all-day admission to our galleries—including our special exhibition, "By Design: The Worlds of Betsy James Wyeth."

The Museum is open from 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. ⁣today. Please note that this month's event will not feature any family art activities.⁣ "Free First Sunday at Brandywine" is made possible by PECO.⁣⁣

Born on this day in 1906 in St. Catherines, Canada, Ralston Crawford was a painter, lithographer, photographer, and educ...
09/05/2026

Born on this day in 1906 in St. Catherines, Canada, Ralston Crawford was a painter, lithographer, photographer, and educator whose geometric, abstracted works capture the United States in a period of rapid transformation and industrialization.

Growing up in Buffalo, NY, he began his career as a seaman on commercial steamers, traveling to the Caribbean and Central America before settling in Los Angeles in 1927. After studying for two years at the Otis Art Institute (during which time he also worked as an illustrator at Walt Disney Studios), he relocated to Pennsylvania to pursue training in fine art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Barnes Foundation. There, and on a year-long trip to Europe in 1932-3, he encountered the work of European modernists, whose explorations of abstraction would heavily influence his emerging style.

By the end of the 1930s, Crawford had begun incorporating the hard-edged geometric forms, flat planes of color, and crisp lines that were coming to define the emerging Precisionist movement. Influenced by Charles Demuth and Charles Sheeler, Crawford created works that expressed the promise of an industrial, post-Depression America through abstracted depictions of factories, grain elevators, bridges, and other commercial architecture.

During World War II, Crawford enlisted in the Air Force and was appointed Chief of the Visual Presentation Unit of the Weather Division, responsible for creating representations of weather patterns. Although originally for military use, these maps garnered Crawford several commercial commissions, including with "Fortune." He would go on to illustrate several covers for the magazine and was also commissioned to depict the first nuclear bomb tests.

Later in his career, he would move further towards abstraction and explore other media such as photography and lithography. His works are held in many public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Museum of Modern Art.

🎨: Ralston Crawford (1906- 1978) Barn with Red Gable, 1937, oil on canvas © 2025 Estate of Ralston Crawford / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

POV: You left work in time to beat the traffic.📍Now on view, see this work in our third floor Andrew Wyeth Gallery.As a ...
09/04/2026

POV: You left work in time to beat the traffic.

📍Now on view, see this work in our third floor Andrew Wyeth Gallery.

As a special treat this weekend (September 5 & 6), all active Bank of America cardholders can enjoy FREE general admission to the Brandywine as part of the "Museums on Us" program. This program offers active Bank of America cardholders free general admission to the Brandywine and more than 225 cultural institutions across the U.S. during the first full weekend of every month! The Museum is open from 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. all weekend long.

🎨: Andrew Wyeth (1917 - 2009), Renfield Study, 1995, watercolor on paper © Wyeth Foundation for American Art/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Setting the scene.📍Now on view, see this work by Carolyn Wyeth in our second floor mill gallery.🎨: Carolyn Wyeth (1909 -...
09/03/2026

Setting the scene.

📍Now on view, see this work by Carolyn Wyeth in our second floor mill gallery.

🎨: Carolyn Wyeth (1909 - 1994), Mask of Keats, ca. 1940, oil on canvas. © artist, artist's estate, or other rights holders

09/02/2026

Step inside the worlds of Betsy Wyeth with the fully illustrated catalogue for "By Design." ✨

Click here to purchase your copy today: bit.ly/4vmuEGS

Now on view at the Brandywine through January 10, this exhibition centers the indomitable collaborator, muse, and wife of Andrew Wyeth, and her lasting creative impact on American art. Betsy herself created the world around her through architectural and interior design, decorative arts objects, documents, and paintings by her husband—which were largely shaped by Betsy and the worlds she created. "By Design" is co-organized by Brandywine Museum of Art, Colby College Museum of Art, and Farnsworth Art Museum Farnsworth Museum of Art. It is being presented simultaneously at the three museums with each exploring distinct pieces of this rich story.

Published by Rizzoli New York, this hardcover catalogue features stunning photography of key sites that define Betsy's creative vision, as well as essays from the curators and over a dozen insiders and experts on Betsy Wyeth’s design legacy, including personal reflections from her sons, artist Jamie Wyeth and Nicholas Wyeth.

When the "-ber" months finally hit. 🎃👻🧙‍♀️🎨: Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle (1876 - 1936) Cover for "Everybody's Magazine,"...
09/01/2026

When the "-ber" months finally hit. 🎃👻🧙‍♀️

🎨: Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle (1876 - 1936) Cover for "Everybody's Magazine," ca. 1923, oil on illustration board. collections.brandywine.org

Drinking in the starlight.📍Now on view, see this work by N.C. Wyeth in our second floor mill gallery.🎨: N.C. Wyeth (1882...
08/31/2026

Drinking in the starlight.

📍Now on view, see this work by N.C. Wyeth in our second floor mill gallery.

🎨: N.C. Wyeth (1882 - 1945), And putting their mouths to the level of a starry pool, they drank their fill, 1916, oil on canvas. collections.brandywine.org

08/30/2026

Celebrating National Beach Day with a few serene moments spent on the coast. 🌊



🎨: William Trost Richards (1833 - 1905), The Yellow Cairn, Kynance Cove, Cornwall, England, 1905, oil on canvas. collections.brandywine.org

Soaring straight into the weekend.🎨: John W. McCoy (1910 - 1989), Gulls, n.d., mixed media (watercolor and gouache) on p...
08/29/2026

Soaring straight into the weekend.

🎨: John W. McCoy (1910 - 1989), Gulls, n.d., mixed media (watercolor and gouache) on paper. © artist, artist's estate, or other rights holders. collections.brandywine.org

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Wednesday 9:30am - 4:30pm
Thursday 9:30am - 4:30pm
Friday 9:30am - 4:30pm
Saturday 9:30am - 4:30pm
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