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Abstract Flash: Unseen Andrew Wyeth greets the viewer with a 1965 quotation by the artist: “My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash—like something you caught out of the corner of your eye.” Conceived and curated by Karen Baumgartner, the show follows Wyeth’s dedication to this “abstract flash” in sixty watercolors painted between 1939 and 1996. The show, drawn entirely from the trove of over seven thousand Wyeth paintings and drawings in the new Andrew and Be...

The a href= http://brandywine.org target= _blank Brandywine Museum of Art /a is now opening the first major museum exhibition dedicated to the exq

Joseph Stella — famed for his Brooklyn Bridge portraits — was mad about tropical plants. Now, the Norton Museum is spotlighting his forgotten botanical works.

On view at the a href= http://www.brandywine.org target= _blank Brandywine River Museum of Art /a this fall, Fragile Earth: The Naturalist Impulse

a href= http://www.brandywine.org target= _blank The Brandywine River Museum of Art /a announced today the appointment of William L. Coleman, Ph.D

The a href= http://www.brandywine.org target= _blank Brandywine River Museum of Art /a recntly opened Dawoud Bey: Night Coming Tenderly, Black. Th

a href= http://www.wyethfoundationforamericanart.com/ target= _blank The Wyeth Foundation for American Art /a has announced that it has establishe

The Brandywine River Museum will oversee the display of nearly 7,000 works, the most never seen publicly.

A partnership between the artist’s foundation and two museums will enable much of his art to be viewed for the first time.

Coming to the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, Penn., this May, Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America will celebrate two dozen early-twentieth century painters who fundamentally changed the art world. These artists, all without formal training, diversified the field across lines of race, ethnicity, class, gender and ability. Featuring more than 60 works, this exhibition examines how self-taught artists “crashed the gates” of the elite art world after Worl...