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The Brandywine River Museum of Art
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The Brandywine River Museum of Art is home to one of the country s renowned collections of American art. This stunning book reveals the beauty of the museum s remarkable holdings, housed in a renovated nineteenth-century mill building with a steel- and-glass addition overlooking the Brandywine River, and of its three historic properties the N. C. Wyeth home and studio, the Andrew Wyeth studio, and the Kuerner Farm, which inspired over 1,000 works by Andrew Wyeth all National Historic Landmarks. This volume features fifty of the museum s most beloved paintings, by artists such as John Kensett, Martin Johnson Heade, William Trost Richards, Horace Pippin, and Andrew Wyeth, along with immersive photographs of the 300-acre landscape surrounding the museum and historic structures. The introduction by curator Christine Podmaniczky includes a brief history of this unique institution, its art collection, and the intimate places where the Wyeth family lived and painted. This handsome volume will appeal not only to museum visitors but also to art lovers everywhere.

Author Biography:

Thomas Padon is director of the Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA. Christine Podmaniczky is curator of N. C. Wyeth Collections and Historic Properties at the Brandywine River Museum of Art and author of N. C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings.
Release date NZ
April 25th, 2017
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Contributors
  • Foreword by Thomas Padon
  • Text by Christine Podmaniczky
Illustrations
100 color illustrations
Pages
136
Dimensions
211x262x18
ISBN-13
9780847859610
Product ID
25941648

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