PHILADELPHIA — The Brandywine River Museum of Art, long associated with Andrew Wyeth, a museum neighbor in Chadds Ford, has received a major gift of nearly 200 artworks by his family and friends, including 40 works by the artist’s father, the famed illustrator, N.C. Wyeth.
The artworks, given to the museum by the Andrew Wyeth Foundation for American Art, includes more than 30 works by Howard Pyle, founder of the so-called Brandywine School of Art and N.C.’s teacher, and paintings and drawings by Daniel Garber, Carolyn Wyeth, Henriette Wyeth Hurd, Peter Hurd, John McCoy, George A. “Frolic” Weymouth, and others.
In addition to the donation of these works, the museum has entered into a collection-sharing arrangement with the foundation and the Farnsworth Art Museum, in Rockland, Maine, where Wyeth and his family spent summers. The agreement covers many works familiar to museumgoers, as well as thousands of pieces never seen in public before, according to Virginia Logan, executive director of the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art.
