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🎉 Exciting news! Today the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art announced an approximately $100 million project that will result in a transformation and expansion of the organization’s 15-acre campus. The project includes construction of a 40,000 square-foot new museum building designed by Kengo Kuma & Associates (@kkaa_official)—the architect’s first museum building in the U.S.—in association with @schwartzsilver Architects Inc., along with significant renovations to the Brandywine Museum of Art’s beloved historic Mill building.

Landscape design for the expanded campus will be led by @fieldoperations and will include a remarkable expansion of the current Chadds Ford campus into a 325-acre public preserve and garden featuring ten miles of trails bookended by the two museum buildings. When completed, the new trails will create a loop through the changing landscape between both museum buildings, as well as the original studios of N.C. Wyeth and Andrew Wyeth.

We invite you to learn more about this exciting expansion project on our website at www.brandywine.org/campus-expansion or clicking our 🔗 link in our bio. You can also check out exclusive articles shared today in @theartnewspaper.official and @phillyinquirer.

At the completion of this transformative project, Brandywine will be one Museum with two buildings, connected by a beautiful 325-acre public preserve and gardens with trails and outdoor spaces where guests can learn and find inspiration as they walk in the footsteps of great American artists. Visitors will also have a more immersive understanding of the Brandywine Conservancy’s activities through a new interactive exhibit in the Mill building and by learning opportunities along the campus preserve and trails.

🎨: First four renderings courtesy of Kengo Kuma & Associates and Field Operations. Last rendering courtesy of Vibsu.

🎉 Exciting news! Today the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art announced an approximately $100 million project that will result in a transformation and expansion of the organization’s 15-acre campus. The project includes construction of a 40,000 square-foot new museum building designed by Kengo Kuma & Associates (@kkaa_official)—the architect’s first museum building in the U.S.—in association with @schwartzsilver Architects Inc., along with significant renovations to the Brandywine Museum of Art’s beloved historic Mill building.

Landscape design for the expanded campus will be led by @fieldoperations and will include a remarkable expansion of the current Chadds Ford campus into a 325-acre public preserve and garden featuring ten miles of trails bookended by the two museum buildings. When completed, the new trails will create a loop through the changing landscape between both museum buildings, as well as the original studios of N.C. Wyeth and Andrew Wyeth.

We invite you to learn more about this exciting expansion project on our website at www.brandywine.org/campus-expansion or clicking our 🔗 link in our bio. You can also check out exclusive articles shared today in @theartnewspaper.official and @phillyinquirer.

At the completion of this transformative project, Brandywine will be one Museum with two buildings, connected by a beautiful 325-acre public preserve and gardens with trails and outdoor spaces where guests can learn and find inspiration as they walk in the footsteps of great American artists. Visitors will also have a more immersive understanding of the Brandywine Conservancy’s activities through a new interactive exhibit in the Mill building and by learning opportunities along the campus preserve and trails.

🎨: First four renderings courtesy of Kengo Kuma & Associates and Field Operations. Last rendering courtesy of Vibsu.

🎉 Exciting news! Today the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art announced an approximately $100 million project that will result in a transformation and expansion of the organization’s 15-acre campus. The project includes construction of a 40,000 square-foot new museum building designed by Kengo Kuma & Associates (@kkaa_official)—the architect’s first museum building in the U.S.—in association with @schwartzsilver Architects Inc., along with significant renovations to the Brandywine Museum of Art’s beloved historic Mill building.

Landscape design for the expanded campus will be led by @fieldoperations and will include a remarkable expansion of the current Chadds Ford campus into a 325-acre public preserve and garden featuring ten miles of trails bookended by the two museum buildings. When completed, the new trails will create a loop through the changing landscape between both museum buildings, as well as the original studios of N.C. Wyeth and Andrew Wyeth.

We invite you to learn more about this exciting expansion project on our website at www.brandywine.org/campus-expansion or clicking our 🔗 link in our bio. You can also check out exclusive articles shared today in @theartnewspaper.official and @phillyinquirer.

At the completion of this transformative project, Brandywine will be one Museum with two buildings, connected by a beautiful 325-acre public preserve and gardens with trails and outdoor spaces where guests can learn and find inspiration as they walk in the footsteps of great American artists. Visitors will also have a more immersive understanding of the Brandywine Conservancy’s activities through a new interactive exhibit in the Mill building and by learning opportunities along the campus preserve and trails.

🎨: First four renderings courtesy of Kengo Kuma & Associates and Field Operations. Last rendering courtesy of Vibsu.

🎉 Exciting news! Today the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art announced an approximately $100 million project that will result in a transformation and expansion of the organization’s 15-acre campus. The project includes construction of a 40,000 square-foot new museum building designed by Kengo Kuma & Associates (@kkaa_official)—the architect’s first museum building in the U.S.—in association with @schwartzsilver Architects Inc., along with significant renovations to the Brandywine Museum of Art’s beloved historic Mill building.

Landscape design for the expanded campus will be led by @fieldoperations and will include a remarkable expansion of the current Chadds Ford campus into a 325-acre public preserve and garden featuring ten miles of trails bookended by the two museum buildings. When completed, the new trails will create a loop through the changing landscape between both museum buildings, as well as the original studios of N.C. Wyeth and Andrew Wyeth.

We invite you to learn more about this exciting expansion project on our website at www.brandywine.org/campus-expansion or clicking our 🔗 link in our bio. You can also check out exclusive articles shared today in @theartnewspaper.official and @phillyinquirer.

At the completion of this transformative project, Brandywine will be one Museum with two buildings, connected by a beautiful 325-acre public preserve and gardens with trails and outdoor spaces where guests can learn and find inspiration as they walk in the footsteps of great American artists. Visitors will also have a more immersive understanding of the Brandywine Conservancy’s activities through a new interactive exhibit in the Mill building and by learning opportunities along the campus preserve and trails.

🎨: First four renderings courtesy of Kengo Kuma & Associates and Field Operations. Last rendering courtesy of Vibsu.

🎉 Exciting news! Today the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art announced an approximately $100 million project that will result in a transformation and expansion of the organization’s 15-acre campus. The project includes construction of a 40,000 square-foot new museum building designed by Kengo Kuma & Associates (@kkaa_official)—the architect’s first museum building in the U.S.—in association with @schwartzsilver Architects Inc., along with significant renovations to the Brandywine Museum of Art’s beloved historic Mill building.

Landscape design for the expanded campus will be led by @fieldoperations and will include a remarkable expansion of the current Chadds Ford campus into a 325-acre public preserve and garden featuring ten miles of trails bookended by the two museum buildings. When completed, the new trails will create a loop through the changing landscape between both museum buildings, as well as the original studios of N.C. Wyeth and Andrew Wyeth.

We invite you to learn more about this exciting expansion project on our website at www.brandywine.org/campus-expansion or clicking our 🔗 link in our bio. You can also check out exclusive articles shared today in @theartnewspaper.official and @phillyinquirer.

At the completion of this transformative project, Brandywine will be one Museum with two buildings, connected by a beautiful 325-acre public preserve and gardens with trails and outdoor spaces where guests can learn and find inspiration as they walk in the footsteps of great American artists. Visitors will also have a more immersive understanding of the Brandywine Conservancy’s activities through a new interactive exhibit in the Mill building and by learning opportunities along the campus preserve and trails.

🎨: First four renderings courtesy of Kengo Kuma & Associates and Field Operations. Last rendering courtesy of Vibsu.

Taking a moment to pause, reflect and remember all those who bravely served and sacrificed on this Memorial Day.⁣

Titled “Memorial Day,” this painting is by artist Barclay Rubincam, a Chester County, PA native. During World War II, Rubincam served with an engineering unit in the South Pacific but was reassigned to produce illustrations, murals and posters for the Army’s Information Education Section. After his military service he established a studio in West Chester, PA, and began his career in portraits, landscape painting, murals and graphic design.

#DailyArtFix #MemorialDay #BarclayRubincam #DailyArt #BrandywineMuseumOfArt #Chesco

🎨: Barclay Rubincam (1920 - 1978), Memorial Day, 1951, oil on gesso panel. collections.brandywine.org

A little morning magic to start the day. ✨

Time is running out to see our special exhibition,"Cropsey, Wyeth, and the American Landscape Tradition," before it closes NEXT SUNDAY (5/31). This exhibition marks the global museum debut of a monumental, rediscovered masterwork by the leading Hudson River School artist Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823–1900), which is now on public view for the first time since 1873. Additional works by Cropsey, Alfred Thompson Bricher, Albert Bierstadt, William Trost Richards, and more survey the nineteenth-century boom in landscape painting in the United States before tracing a clear line of descent to the further development of American landscape art, via Homer, Bellows, N.C. Wyeth, and Andrew Wyeth.

Click our 🔗 link in bio to learn more or visit: brandywine.org/cropsey-wyeth

#Cropsey #AndrewWyeth #JasperCropsey #ChaddsFord #BrandywineMuseumOfArt #PaulWeber #Sunrise #Morning #Mountains #Alleghenies #DailyArtFix
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🎨: Paul Weber (1823 - 1916), Sunrise in the Alleghenies, ca. 1853, oil on canvas. collections.brandywine.org

Gloomy skies, happy eyes. Here's to spending the weekend with your favorite mud buddies. 🐾

Love this painting? In collaboration with the artist, high-quality archival prints of Jamie Wyeth's "Dog Under Lilacs in a Downpour" are available for purchase from our Museum Shop online at: bitly.com/wyeth-lilacs
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#JamieWyeth #Wyeth #Dog #DailyArtFix #Rainy #RainyDay #Springtime #BrandywineMuseumOfArt #MuseumFromHome #BrandywineAtHome⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
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🎨: Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946), Dog Under Lilacs in a Downpour, 2018, acrylic and oil on claybord panel. © 2026 Jamie Wyeth / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Why wait for the weekend? "Treasures from the Family: The Gift of Betsy James Wyeth" is NOW ON VIEW at the Brandywine 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 our 🔗 link in bio to learn more or visit www.brandywine.org.

#TreasuresFromTheFamily #Treasures #WyethFamily #Archives #ArtFamily #ArtHistory #BetsyJamesWyeth #BetsyWyeth #NCWyeth #WyethArt #OnView #Chesco #Delco #BrandywineMuseumOfArt

Umbrellas up for a dreary day. ☂️
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#JosephPennell #Rain #Rainy #RainyDay #MuseumMomentOfZen #DailyArt #BrandywineMuseumOfArt #DailyArtFix
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🎨: Joseph Pennell (1857 - 1926), West Front of St. Paul's from Ludgate Hill (detail), 1887, gouache en grisaille on paper laid down on board. collections.brandywine.org

Take a closer look at artist sTo Len’s fascinating "gomitaku" scroll, now on view in our special exhibition, "Abundance/Excess: A Contemporary Eye on Still Life."

Adapted from gyotaku—a 19th-century Japanese fish-printing technique traditionally used by fishermen to record their catches—the artist replaces fish with debris and plastic waste collected from the river he played beside as a child. Many of the monoprints are made from fragments of polystyrene, best known by its patented name, “Styrofoam,” which Len dips in sumi ink before pressing onto a long, vertical fabric scroll.

The resulting work forms a stark visual language that highlights environmental degradation, creating a gomitaku, or “trash impression.” The flowing, wave-like form of the hanging scroll further evokes the movement of the waterways from which the debris was sourced.

"Abundance/Excess" brings together a selection of works by 10 contemporary artists across a variety of mediums, ranging from paintings to sculptures to mixed media and video. The featured artists include Kate Abercrombie, Sungho Bae, Katie Butler, Ilana Harris-Babou, artist collaborators Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib, King Cobra, Tamara Kostianovsky, sTo Len, Cara Romero, and Misha Wyllie. Still life has a long reputation as a genre for aesthetic experimentation, and the artists in "Abundance/Excess" continue in this tradition of exploration and play while also incorporating still life’s thematic emphasis on time, impermanence, and the politics of bounty. Click our 🔗 link in bio to learn more or visit www.brandywine.org/abundance.

#sToLen #AbundanceExcess #ContemporaryArt #StillLife #Gyotaku #Gomitaku #BrandywineMuseumOfArt #MyBrandywine #Chesco #Delco

🎨: sTo Len (b. 1978), Impressions for Coastal Constellation Alignment: Potomac River, Virginia, 2020, gomitaku monoprint on fabric, sumi ink. Courtesy of the artist

Taking a break from the heat to cool off by the coast.

#DailyArtFix #WalterElmerSchofield #MaineSeascape #Maine #Sea #Seascape #BlueSky #MuseumMomentOfZen #DailyArt #BrandywineMuseumOfArt

🎨: Walter Elmer Schofield (1867 - 1944), Maine Seascape, ca. 1919-1921, oil on canvas. collections.brandywine.org

Celebrating International Museum Day with a whirl around our third-floor illustration gallery.

Featuring works by the legendary Howard Pyle—who founded the Brandywine School—alongside prominent students N.C. Wyeth, Jessie Willcox Smith, Sarah Stilwell Weber, Frank Schoonover and more, the Brandywine Museum of Art's collection vividly captures the spirit of the “Golden Age of American Illustration.”

#InternationalMuseumDay #MuseumDay #AmericanIllustration #Illustration #GoldenAgeOfAmericanIllustration #BrandywineSchool #NCWyeth #HowardPyle #BrandywineMuseumOfArt

Time for a Sunday spin around our special exhibition, "Cropsey, Wyeth and the American Landscape Tradition" before it closes later this month on May 31!

This exhibition marks the global museum debut of a monumental, rediscovered masterwork by the leading Hudson River School artist Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823–1900), which is now on public view for the first time since 1873. Additional works by Cropsey, Alfred Thompson Bricher, Albert Bierstadt, William Trost Richards, and more survey the nineteenth-century boom in landscape painting in the United States before tracing a clear line of descent to the further development of American landscape art, via Homer, Bellows, N.C. Wyeth, and Andrew Wyeth.

Click our 🔗 link in bio to learn more or visit: brandywine.org/cropsey-wyeth

#Cropsey #Wyeth #LandscapePainting #AmericanLandscape #BrandywineMuseumOfArt #ArtHistory

In honor of Armed Forces Day, the @neaarts Blue Star Museums program officially launches today, May 16! The @brandywinemuseum is a proud participant of this program, which offers FREE admission to active-duty military personnel—including the National Guard and Reserves—and up to five family members, now through Labor Day. ⁣
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In addition to this program, the Brandywine also offers $5 off adult admission to veterans, plus complimentary admission to active-duty personnel throughout the year. To receive these admission offers, please bring your military or veteran ID to the Brandywine during your next visit. ⁣
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@bluestarfamilies #ArmedForcesDay #BlueStarMuseums #BlueStarFamilies #MilitaryDiscount #VeteranDiscount #Military #Veterans #MilitaryFamilies #MilitaryCommunity #Army #Navy #USAF #MarineCorps #CoastGuard #ArmyNationalGuard #MilKids #DailyArtFix #BrandywineMuseumOfArt

🎨: N.C. Wyeth (1882 - 1945), It was after this attack that the High Command published to the German army: "The moral effect of our own gunfire can not seriously impede the advance of the American Infantry," 1930, oil on canvas. © Redbook Magazine, 1930. collections.brandywine.org

With great sadness, Brandywine mourns the loss of our dear friend Peter Paone, one of the most intriguing artists in the Museum's collection.

Born in 1936 in South Philadelphia, Peter studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art (now the University of the Arts), and then worked in New York and London before returning permanently to Philadelphia in 1975. Working within and expanding the figurative tradition, Peter created paintings that were suspended between the real and surreal. ⁣He had over 60 solo exhibitions internationally over the course of his career and is represented in major museums throughout the U.S.⁣

"Peter was an artist and teacher of inexhaustible creativity and drew upon his formidable knowledge of history, literature, mythology, art, and fashion to create a remarkable body of work over ​seven decades,” said Thomas Padon, the James H. Duff Director of the Brandywine Museum of Art. "In two exhibitions @brandywinemuseum in 2019 and 2024, our visitors were introduced to and captivated by his paintings and printmaking. He will be dearly missed by us all."

#PeterPaone #BrandywineMuseumOfArt

🎨: Peter Paone (b. 1936), Self-Portrait, 2012, acrylic on panel. © Peter Paone. collections.brandywine.org