Archived - Shows And Events

November 25, 2016 - January 1, 2017 - From the spectacular O-gauge model train display with trains running on nearly 2,000 feet of track, to a collection of rare antique dolls dressed in beautiful period clothing, plus thousands of whimsical Critters (ornaments and decorations handcrafted by Brandywine volunteers from natural materials) displayed on towering trees soaring up through the museum's t...

October 29, 2016 - January 21, 2017 - This exhibition comprised of more than 60 works mainly completed between the World Wars, Rural Modern investigates the incursion and gradual acceptance of modernist tropes in the American provinces. Some of the artists included, such as Georgia O’Keeffe, were firmly entrenched in modernism before leaving the cities behind. Other artists, N.C. Wyeth for example...

July 1, 2016 - October 8, 2016 - This exhibition, organized by the Brandywine River Museum of Art and guest curated by H. Nichols B. Clark, will feature an exciting selection of contemporary paintings and drawings created by eight of the most renowned artists currently working the field. The works reveal the artists’ broad spectrum of working methods and subject matter, as well as the ever-increas...

June 24, 2017 - September 16, 2017 - This exhibition will explore how the artist’s work evolved over the decades and will connect him more fully to traditions in American and European art. His career arc will also be explored, noting the critical responses to his work, as well as his immense public success. New interpretations will be offered on the significance of outside influences on his work, ...

May 28, 2016 - September 4, 2016 - In this exhibition, Leslie B. Grigsby, Winterthur’s Senior Curator of Ceramics & Glass, presents a selection of some of the enormous range of ceramic vases and floral-decorated wares from the Winterthur Museum collection. These eye-catching objects primarily date from the 1700s and 1800s and, variously, were produced in America, Europe and Asia. The high-fashion ...

April 29, 2016 - June 7, 2016 - A special exhibition in memory of the late founder of the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art will be on view, in half of the Andrew Wyeth Gallery, marking the first time paintings by the two artists are displayed together. .George A. "Frolic" Weymouth was a visionary conservationist, philanthropist, highly talented artist and accomplished sportsman. His tireless...

April 8, 2016 - November 5, 2016 - The exhibition showcases paintings by artists that are new to the collection, such as Hudson River School painters Martin Johnson Heade, John Kensett, and Albert Bierstadt, whose luminous, contemplative views of nature influenced the grand tradition of mid-nineteenth-century landscape painting in America. These late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century artists ...

March 19, 2016 - June 4, 2016 - Imagine Brandywine is an exhibition space for the display of multidisciplinary art projects by area students, inspired by the collections and surroundings of the Brandywine River Museum of Art.

March 19 - June 12, 2016 - In this exhibition more than 25 celebrated American artists will be represented. These artists were inspired to explore the landscape by the writers of their time whose stories, essays and poems extolled the pristine, primeval quality and symbolic virtue of America’s natural beauty. Hudson River artists’ powerful interpretations of American scenery are illuminated in the...

Fine antiques including furniture, rugs, porcelain, needlework and more from 30 distinguished dealers.