Brandywine River Museum, Wyeth Museum, Chadds Ford, PA, The Brandywine Valley

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Brandywine River Museum

U.S. Rt. 1 | Chadds Ford, PA | 610.388.2700

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Brandywine River Museum
Hours of Operation: Daily 9:30am - 4:30pm. Closed Christmas Day.
General Admission: $10 adults; $6 seniors (65+), students & children ages 6-12; Under 6 admitted free. Parking is free. Individual audio tours can be rented for $3. Group rates are available with advance reservations.
Handicap Accessible: Display areas are accessible.
Camera Policy: Photography inside the museum is not permitted.
The Museum Shop: Open during museum hours, the shop offers a selection of books, gifts, posters and reproductions relating to the museum's collections.
Restaurant: Open daily 10am - 3pm. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays from January through March.
Directions: The Brandywine River Museum is located on U.S. Route 1 in Chadds Ford, PA, near the junction with PA Route 100. (Creek Road).

Overview

Often called the "Wyeth Museum" for its extensive collection of works by the internationally acclaimed Wyeth family - grandfather N.C., father Andrew and son Jamie - the Brandywine River Museum is housed in a converted 19th-century grist mill on the banks of the Brandywine in Chadds Ford, Pa.

The Collection

Works by Brandywine school founder Howard Pyle and students including Maxfield Parrish, as well as paintings by

American illustrators Charles Dana Gibson, Rockwell Kent and others. Other works include 19th-century landscapes, still lifes and interior scenes by artists including Jasper Cropsey, George Cope and Jefferson David Chalfant.

Tour N.C. Wyeth House & Studio

April through November

The house where N.C. Wyeth raised his extraordinarily creative children and the studio in which he painted many of his memorable works of art have been restored to reflect their character in 1945, the year of the artist's death. Educational tours departing from the museum are offered at timed intervals. Wednesday through Sunday; $5 per person in addition to museum admission.

Kuerner Farm Tours

April through November

For more than 70 years, the historic Kuerner Farm has been a major source of inspiration to Andrew Wyeth. Since his earliest painting of the farm in 1932 at the age of 15, Wyeth has found subjects in its people, animals, buildings and landscapes for more than 1,000 works of art. Educational tours departing from the museum are offered at timed intervals. Wednesday through Sunday. $5 per person in addition to museum admission. Due to uneven walking surfaces, the Kuerner Farm is not accessible to disabled individuals.

Many of Wyeth's best-known works of art have emerged from his long fascination with the farm, including Winter 1946 (1946), Groundhog Day (1959), Evening at Kuerners (1970), Young Bull (1960), Spring Fed (1967), and Overflow (1978). Reproductions of these works are viewed on the tour, along with parts of the house, barn and property to demonstrate how Wyeth alters the physical details of a site in order to communicate a particular idea.

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