#Brandywine Museum of Art

[arthistoryanimalia]

#Caturday :

Andrew Wyeth (PA, USA, 1917-2009)

Miss Olson, 1952

Tempera on panel

Private Collection, currently on display at Brandywine Museum of Art

“Four years after Andrew Wyeth made Christina Olson iconic in Christina's World (MOMA), he created this tender portrait of her. With extraordinary sensitivity to a seemingly straightforward subject—a woman and a cat in the corner of a worn room—he invites us to reflect on the stories this person and place could tell.”

[noctem-novelle]

IG: @noctem.novelle

[aisling-saoirse]

The Brandywine River Museum - September 26th 2022

[winged-vigilante]

Brandywine art museum trip pt.2

[noperopesaredope]

Fandom and fan-culture (particularly on Tumblr) has cursed me to describe how much I like things in a very weird way.

The other day, I was at an art exhibit, and there was this collection by a painter named Joseph Stella. For some reason, multiple of his paintings just enraptured me (I’m very into art, but I’m not much of a painter). Seeing images of paintings is one thing, but seeing them in person can feel breathtaking. And some of these paintings just- I can’t even.

And I was trying to describe to my mom and her friend about how some of the paintings made me feel, and I just:

“I want to go back in time to when he had just finished painting this, and while it’s still drying, I want to stick my hands on it and get the paint all over me like a child who went ham on a birthday cake and now they’re covered in frosting.”

“I want to roll it up into a burrito shape and eat it.”

“I want to jump into it like in that one scene in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, and roll around like I’m in a field of grass.”

“I want to tattoo it onto me, absorb its essence into my skin.”

“I want to turn this into perfume and spray it all over myself.”

*Goes on a whole monologue about how this oil painting of a piece of bark has changed my life and worldview forever*

“I cry every time I look at this. I’m so happy, I want to stab myself in the chest and maybe die. But not like, in a suicidal way. Kinda the opposite, actually. This is so wonderful to me, I can’t handle how it makes me feel. This is the worst thing that’s ever happened to me. This is the best thing that’s ever happened to me. I’m gonna steal this.”

Tumblr really gave me the phrase “I want to put him in a microwave” and now I can’t stop using similar terminology. I hate this.

[book-historia]

Went to the Brandywine Museum of Art today and I am absolutely obsessed with this beast

[midatlanticwasp]

Eight Bells - c 1932 - N.C. Wyeth. Brandywine Museum of Art.

[eddy25960]

N. C. Wyeth (American, 1882–1945)

"In the Crystal Depths", 1906.

Oil on Canvas Painting.

Collections of the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania in the United States.

[olympic-paris]

N.C. Wyeth (American, 1882-1945) On the Hay Load, 1944 Oil on hardboard Brandywine River Museum of Art

[rolloroberson]

Pumpkin March

1974

Jamie Wyeth

Watercolor on paper

32 1/2 x 40 1/2 in.

Collection of the Brandywine River Museum of art

[arthistoryanimalia]

Andrew Wyeth (PA, USA, 1917-2009)

Night Sleeper, 1979

Tempera on panel

Collection of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, currently on display at Brandywine Museum of Art

“This monumental work is a portrait both of the Wyeth's dog, Nell, and of Brinton's Mill, the eighteenth-century industrial site that Betsy James Wyeth restored and repurposed into a timeless family home in a landscape rich in associations with the Revolutionary War. Like so many of Wyeth's works, the view is visionary rather than photographic, combining views of multiple sites in Chadds Ford with memories of childhood trips to Maine summers on overnight trains.”

[museumelina]

jamie wyeth (1946-), pumpkinhead (self-portrait), 1972, oil on canvas, chadds ford (pennsylvania), brandywine river museum.

is there a work of art that’s any more october than this?

i have loved this portrait ever since laying eyes on it for the first time in 2014, at a retrospective exhibition for the artist hosted at the museum of fine art in boston.

i especially love what jamie wyeth had to say about his self-portrait:

“i sent [the national academy], pumpkinhead and they didn’t want it. They said ‘no, we want a portrait of you’. And I kept saying, ‘well, that is me’.”

[skleznev]

Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009)

“747″, 1980

Tempera painting at Brandywine Museum of Art

[gracehosborn]

What's the itinerary? 👀

Hi, Anon! Happy to share.

My dream American Revolution trip itinerary, just including my must-sees, and a rough idea of transportation (still working on food stops and slipping in other points of interest):

Day 1:

Early morning flight to Boston, MA

Stay in Boston for 3 nights, 4 days

Rental car for Day 2 and 3

Boston Massacre Site

Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum

Bunker Hill Museum and Monument

Old North Church & Historic Site

Day 2:

Paul Revere House

Lexington Battle Green Tour, Lexington MA

Drive from Boston

Old North Bridge, Concord MA

Drive from Lexington

Day 3:

Adams National Historic Park, Quincy MA

Drive from Boston

General Nathaniel Greene Homestead, Coventry RI

Drive from Adams NHP

Day 4:

Early morning train/bus to Albany, NY

Stay in Albany 2 nights, 3 days

Rental car for Day 4 and 5

Saratoga National Historical Park, Stillwater NY

Drive from Albany

Fort Ticonderoga, Ticonderoga NY

Drive from Saratoga NHP

Day 5:

Schuyler Mansion tour

Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site, Newbrugh NY

Drive from Albany

John Jay Homestead, Katonah NY

Drive from Washington Headquarters Newbrugh

Day 6:

Early morning train from Albany to New York City, NY

Stay in New York City for 4 nights, 5 days

Hamilton Grange National Memorial

Morris-Jumel Mansion

Day 7:

City Hall Park

Federal Hall

Fraunces Tavern Museum

Trinity Church & Cemetary

Day 8:

Museum of the City of New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Day 9:

Van Cortlandt House Museum

Central Park

New York Historical Society Museum & Library

Weehawken Dueling Grounds/Hamilton Park, Weehawken, NJ

Take ferry to and from

Day 10:

Train/bus to Princeton, NJ

Stay in Princeton 2 nights, 3 days

Rental car for Day 11

Princeton Battlefield State Park

Day 11:

Monmouth Battlefield State Park, Manalapan, NJ

Drive from Princeton

Morristown National Historical Park, Morristown NJ (Includes: Ford Mansion/Washington’s Headquarters, Schuyler-Hamilton House, Jockey Hollow)

Drive from Monmouth Battlefield Park

Day 12:

Early train/bus to Trenton, NJ

Old Barracks Museum

Washington Crossing Park, Washington Crossing, PA

Train/bus from Trenton

Train/Bus from Washington Crossing to Philadelphia PA

Stay in Philadelphia 3 nights, 4 days

Rental car for Day 15 and 16

Day 13:

Independence Hall

Liberty Bell Center

First Bank of the United States

Carpenter’s Hall

Day 14:

Museum of the American Revolution

Elfreth’s Alley Museum

Day 15:

Valley Forge National Historical Park

Drive from Philadelphia

Moland House (Washington Headquarters), Warwick Township PA

Drive from Valley Forge NHP

Peter Wentz Farmstead (Washington Headquarters), Lansdale PA

Drive from Moland House

Day 16:

Cliveden of the National Trust (Chew House)

Drive from Philadelphia

Brandywine Battlefield (park), Chadds Ford PA

Drive from Cliveden

Afternoon or evening train from Philadelphia to Alexandria, VA

Stay in Alexandria for 2 nights, 3 days

Rental car for Day 18

Day 17:

George Washington’s Mount Vernon

Train/bus from Alexandria, VA

National Archives Museum, Washington DC

Train/bus from Alexandria, VA

Day 18:

James Madison’s Montpelier, Montpelier Station, VA

Drive from Alexandria, VA

Evening train from Alexandria to Williamsburg, VA

Stay in Williamsburg 2 nights

Day 19:

Colonial Williamsburg

Day 20:

Yorktown Battlefield

American Revolution Museum at Yorktown

Train/bus/taxi from Williamsburg

Day 21:

Fly from Williamsburg to Charleston, SC

Stay in Charleston for 4 nights, 5 days

Rental car for Days 22-24

South Carolina Historical Society Museum

Day 22:

Savannah History Museum, Savannah GA

Battlefield Park Heritage Center, Savannah GA

Drive from Charleston

Day 23:

Cowpens National Battlefield, Cowpens SC

Drive from Charleston

Eutaw Springs Battlefield Park, Eutawville SC

Drive from Cowpens

Day 24:

Magnolia Plantation and Gardens

Mempkin Abbey (site of Laurens family graves)

Day 25:

Fly home from Charleston SC

[winged-vigilante]

Brandywine art museum trip pt.1

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle (1876-1936) "The Immigrants" (1899) Oil on canvas Located in the Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, United States This painting was created for Paul Leicester Ford’s novel "Janice Meredith: A Story of the Revolution," an historical romance novel set during the American Revolution.