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06/24/2026

Sending you a sprinkling of pixie dust on this International Fairy Day. ✨

Sarah Stilwell Weber painted this work for Edith B. Sturgis’s poem "The Fairy Godmother" (1907). Weber was among artist Howard Pyle’s most successful students, attending his classes at the Drexel Institute and his summer school in Chadds Ford, PA.

Weber specialized in images of children, as did many women illustrators of the period. Her artwork was highly sought after and appeared in leading publications including Scribner’s, Vogue, The Century Magazine, and The Saturday Evening Post—for which she created over 50 cover illustrations.

See this work, now on view in our third floor Sharp Gallery.



🎨: Sarah S. Stilwell Weber (1877 - 1939), Fairy Godmother, ca. 1907, oil on canvas. collections.brandywine.org

In case you missed it—Brandywine published an initial 1,200 artworks by Andrew Wyeth from the Wyeth Foundation’s collect...
06/23/2026

In case you missed it—Brandywine published an initial 1,200 artworks by Andrew Wyeth from the Wyeth Foundation’s collection to the public web for the first time ever earlier this month.

This new, searchable collections online platform allows you to browse through a broad representation of Wyeth's temperas and watercolors, some iconic—like the work seen here, titled "Pentecost"—and some rarely seen before. More works will be added in regular batches in coming months as we work in close partnership with the Wyeth Foundation for American Art to make this definitive collection that was formed and documented by Betsy Wyeth more widely known and available.

We invite you to explore this exciting new resource at collections.brandywine.org/wyethfoundation

🎨: Andrew Wyeth, Pentecost, 1989, egg tempera and pencil, 20 ¾ x 30 5/8 in. Collection of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art © 2025 Wyeth Foundation for American Art / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Ready for whatever this week thinks it's bringing.Now on view, see this work in our special exhibition, "Treasures from ...
06/22/2026

Ready for whatever this week thinks it's bringing.

Now on view, see this work in our special exhibition, "Treasures from the Family: The Gift of Betsy James Wyeth," through November 8.

This exhibition spotlights Betsy’s role as the curator and archivist of the Wyeth family’s rich history and collection, and features art and archival material from the major bequest she left to the Brandywine upon her death in 2020. "Treasures" not only represents Betsy’s research on her family history, but also her understanding that both the paintings and the archives work in tandem to create a fuller, more contextual story of the Wyeths—not only as a remarkable group of artists, but as a family. Through her generosity, Betsy Wyeth has entrusted Brandywine with the care of art works and her collected family history, which will now be publicly accessible for both enjoyment and scholarship in perpetuity.

Click here to learn more: bit.ly/4wL0xJN

🎨: N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945), Self-portrait with Palette, ca. 1909-1912, oil on canvas. collections.brandywine.org

Born on this day in 1903 in St. Louis, Missouri, Al Hirschfeld was an illustrator and caricaturist known for his drawing...
06/21/2026

Born on this day in 1903 in St. Louis, Missouri, Al Hirschfeld was an illustrator and caricaturist known for his drawings of Broadway stars and other celebrities.

Beginning his artistic training at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design in New York, he later traveled to Europe to study art in the early 1920s. He began to gain popular acclaim when a caricature drawn on a theater Playbill in 1925 was reproduced by The New York Herald Tribune, eventually leading to a 75-year relationship with The New York Times that would last until his death in 2003.

Hirschfield described himself as a “characterist,” using his signature linear drawing style to reinvent people and characters from the stage and translate them to the page. As playwright Terrence McNally wrote, "No one 'writes' more accurately of the performing arts than Al Hirschfeld. He accomplishes on a blank page with his pen and ink in a few strokes what many of us need a lifetime of words to say." Hirschfeld’s caricatures and illustrations appeared in many popular publications including Life, TV Guide, Look, Seventeen, and more, and he also illustrated several books. He was declared a Living Landmark by the New York City Landmarks Commission in 1996 and as a Living Legend by the Library of Congress in 2000.

🎨: Al Hirschfeld (1903 - 2003), Bob Hope, 1940s, pen and ink on paper. © The Al Hirschfeld Foundation. www.AlHirschfeldFoundation.org. Purchased with Museum funds, 2010

Here's to making a splash on the first day of summer. Happy summer solstice, friends!⁣🎨: Edward Henry Potthast I (1857 -...
06/21/2026

Here's to making a splash on the first day of summer. Happy summer solstice, friends!
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🎨: Edward Henry Potthast I (1857 - 1927), Beach Scene, Coney Island, 1915-1918, oil on wood panel. collections.brandywine.org

06/20/2026

Just ONE MORE WEEK until our special exhibition, "By Design: The Worlds of Betsy James Wyeth," opens at the Brandywine on June 27.

Betsy James Wyeth (1921–2020) was a designer of complex environments whose lasting legacy in visual art and landscape will be explored for the first time in this exhibition. Her practice extended to the restoration and adaptive reuse of dozens of historical buildings; the architectural design of new structures; an eclectic collecting practice that shaped highly original interior spaces; and the creation of large-format immersive environmental designs in the service of a consistent vision across two states and decades of practice.

"By Design: The Worlds of Betsy James Wyeth" tells the story of these astonishingly created worlds across hundreds of acres. Co-organized by the Brandywine Museum of Art, Colby College Museum of Art (Waterville, ME), and the Farnsworth Art Museum (Rockland, ME), this multi-venue exhibition will be presented simultaneously at all three locations.

Learn more at www.brandywine.org/by-design

In observance of Juneteenth—also called “Freedom Day,” commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S.—we're sharing a rece...
06/19/2026

In observance of Juneteenth—also called “Freedom Day,” commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S.—we're sharing a recent acquisition from an artist regarded as one of the most important photographers working today, Dawoud Bey.

This large scale photograph is one in Bey's critically acclaimed series "Night Coming Tenderly, Black" that imagines the flight of enslaved African American fugitives, in the mid-19th century, traveling along the last part of an Underground Railroad network. The images present a powerful sensation of moving covertly through an unknown nocturnal landscape.⁣

In "Untitled #24 (At Lake Erie)", the artist offers a distant glimpse of an enormous body of water. Shrouded by thick foliage, the Lake—the final obstacle on the route to freedom—is revealed. Bey described the location as one where he felt a visceral and spiritual connection to the past.
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📸: Dawoud Bey (b. 1953), Night Coming Tenderly, Black: Untitled #24 (At Lake Erie), gelatin silver print, 44 x 55 in. Purchased with Museum funds, 2022. © Dawoud Bey, courtesy of Rena Bransten Gallery

Good morning from the garden.Now on view, see this work in our second floor mill gallery.Titled "Fog," prints of this wo...
06/18/2026

Good morning from the garden.

Now on view, see this work in our second floor mill gallery.

Titled "Fog," prints of this work by Jamie Wyeth are now available online from our Museum Shop. Click here to learn more and shop: bit.ly/44gD0Dn

🎨: Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946), Fog, 2000, oil on canvas. © Jamie Wyeth / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Gift of Margaret Hamilton Duprey, 2025

Dreaming of this cozy coastal oasis.⁣This painting by N.C. Wyeth of his family’s home in Port Clyde, Maine, offers a vie...
06/16/2026

Dreaming of this cozy coastal oasis.
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This painting by N.C. Wyeth of his family’s home in Port Clyde, Maine, offers a view into the other world of the Wyeths: the fishing communities of Mid-Coast Maine. Some of N.C.’s most experimental work came from summers spent along the shore here. ⁣
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The house itself is notably named “Eight Bells” after one of the best-known paintings by another Mainer and an artist much admired by Wyeth, Winslow Homer. The phrase “eight bells” refers to a ship’s watch-keeping system, in which a bell is rung every half hour to track time at sea.⁣

Love this work by N.C. Wyeth? Prints are now available online in our Museum Shop at bit.ly/4vjBtbG
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🎨: N.C. Wyeth (1882 - 1945), Untitled (view of Eight Bells), ca. 1932, oil on canvas. collections.brandywine.org

We're less than TWO WEEKS away from our upcoming special exhibition, "By Design: The Worlds of Betsy James Wyeth," openi...
06/14/2026

We're less than TWO WEEKS away from our upcoming special exhibition, "By Design: The Worlds of Betsy James Wyeth," opening at the Brandywine on June 27.

Betsy James Wyeth (1921–2020) was a designer of complex environments whose lasting legacy in visual art and landscape will be explored for the first time in this exhibition. Her practice extended to the restoration and adaptive reuse of dozens of historical buildings; the architectural design of new structures; an eclectic collecting practice that shaped highly original interior spaces; and the creation of large-format immersive environmental designs in the service of a consistent vision across two states and decades of practice.

"By Design: The Worlds of Betsy James Wyeth" tells the story of these astonishingly created worlds across hundreds of acres. Co-organized by the Brandywine Museum of Art, Colby College Museum of Art (Waterville, ME), and the Farnsworth Art Museum (Rockland, ME), this multi-venue exhibition will be presented simultaneously at all three locations.

Learn more at www.brandywine.org/by-design

🎨: Andrew Wyeth, Maga's Daughter, 1966, egg tempera on panel, 26 1/2 x 30 1/4 in. Collection of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art. © 2026 Wyeth Foundation for American Art / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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