The Brandywine Museum of Art is a museum of regional and American art located on U.S. Route 1 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania on the banks of the Brandywine Creek. The museum showcases the work of Andrew Wyeth, a major American realist painter, and his family: his father N.C. Wyeth, illustrator of many children's classics; his sister Ann Wyeth McCoy, a composer and painter; and his son Jamie Wyeth, a contemporary American realist painter.[1]
History
The museum is a program of the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art. It opened in 1971 through the efforts of "Frolic" Weymouth, who also served on its board.[2]
In September 2021, the museum's lower level was flooded due to the remnants of Hurricane Ida with mechanical systems, lecture rooms, classrooms and office spaces damaged and estimates around $6 million.[3] The museum still opened for the holiday season in limited capacity later in the year.[4]
Location
The museum, sometimes referred to as the Wyeth Museum,[5][6] is housed in a converted nineteenth-century mill overlooking the banks of the Brandywine Creek. The glass-walled lobby overlooks the river and countryside that inspired the Brandywine School earlier in the early 20th century.[2]