The Brandywine Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania

The Brandywine

 Museum of Art

This renovated 19th-century

Mill sits next to...

the Brandywine Creek.

This fertile valley is the heart of gardening in Southeastern Pennsylvania and has inspired many artists. 

The Wyeth family: N.C. Wyeth and his son, Andrew Wyeth, and Andrew's son, Jamie Wyeth made Chadds Ford their home and painted here.

N.C. Wyeth is best known

for his illustrations.

Brandywine Valley Farmers

on the cover of Country

Gentleman Magazine, 1944.

The endpapers of Robert

Lewis Stevenson's

Treasure Island, 1911.  

The Boy's King Arthur,

1917.

Andrew Wyeth's painting style is very different from his father's.  His Water Color and Tempra paintings are described as realistic, with hidden metaphors alluding to memory, nostalgia, and loss.

The Children's Doctor

depicts Dr. Margaret

Handy deep in thought

& dressed in her coat,

carrying her medical 

to see patients.

1949

Nogeeshuk

A member of the Ojibwe of

Walpole Island First Nation

in Ontario

1972

Andrew's son, Jamie continues the family's artistic legacy as a painter.

Frolic honors George A.

"Frolic" Weymouth, a

close friend & a founding

member of the Brandywine

Museum of Art.

2016

Portrait of a Pig

Den Den listened to

Classical Music while

Jamie painted her.

1970 

Currently on Exhibition:

Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins: 

The Life and Art of Barbara Shurmand 

Barbara Shermund, born in 1899, attended the California School and Fine Arts before moving to New York City and becoming one of the first female Cartoonists at The New Yorker in 1925. 

"How do I look, Grandpa?"

"Very nice, dear."

"NICE."

Shermund's sly humor depicts Female Power (first-wave feminism) in the early to mid-20th century.

"Evelyn, speak respectfully

to your father!"

"Oh Mother, don't be so

pre-war!"

"Don't sigh with relief yet -

I'm not finished!"

"Don't bother to introduce us -

we'll just mill around."

But wait, there's more...  N.C. Wyeth and Andrew Wyeth's homes and studios are nearby and available for tours.