TheBrandywine.com- Brandywine Valley Newsletter for November 2011
Brandywine Valley November 2011
This November come and enjoy everything the Brandywine has on offer from antiques to art, good food and more. To receive this newletters by email, click here.
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Events
| Winterthur’s Delaware Antiques Show (November 4-6, 2011)Riverfront Center, Wilmington DE | (302) 425-3929 (888) 862-ARTS One of the nation’s most highly acclaimed and anticipated antiques shows with a spectacular showcase of art, antiques, and design. Featuring the finest offerings from more than 60 of the country’s most distinguished dealers, the Delaware Antiques Show highlights American antiques and decorative arts, including furniture, paintings, rugs, ceramics, silver, jewelry, and more. Proceeds benefit Winterthur’s education programs. Admission $12; members, $9. |
| Annual Artisans Show (November 11, 12 & 13)Center for the Creative Arts, Yorklyn, DE | (302) 239-2434 Find unique, original fine crafts for holiday gifts or yourself. Something for the whole family. Preview Reception & Wine Tasting, Friday November 11th 6:00 – 8:00 pm. |
| Patriots Day at Brandywine Battlefield Park (November 26, 2011 10AM-4PM) Chadds Ford, PA | Battlefield Park | more info The Battlefield will come alive with military and civilian living historians. Step back in time to a small British outpost and see Redcoats & Royal Artillery encamped during the winter of 1777. Infantry & Artillery Firing Demos, 18th Century Baker with fresh Breads & Cookies, Military Fife & Drum Music, 18th Century Sutlers/Merchants, Open Fire Cooking, and a Military Medical Display & Demonstration. Tour the two Historic Quarters of Lafayette & Washington, see the Museum & Film. Chadds Ford Rotary will provide food & refreshments. Everyone will receive a 10% discount in our Annual Museum Shop Holiday Sale starting Patriot’s Day & continuing until Christmas Eve. |
| Yuletide at Winterthur (Nov. 19, 2011-Jan. 8, 2012)Winterthur, 5105 Kennett Pike, Wilmington, DE 19735 | 800.448.3883 Take a magical tour that will transport you to Christmases of old. Experience Winterthur’s most beloved holiday displays from past Yuletides, and discover holiday traditions of Americans from the colonial period through World War II, including the introduction of the first Christmas trees decorated with goodies for children by Pennsylvania Germans in the 1800s. Enjoy special displays recalling du Pont family holiday traditions and winter festivities. Be inspired and amazed by an array of fanciful decorated trees throughout the tour-including the magnificent dried-flower tree. For the first time, the Yuletide tour is free to Winterthur Members and is included in general admission for nonmembers! |
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On Exhibit @ Attractions
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November 6, 13, 20
Brandywine River Museum
Free Sunday Mornings9:30 to noon
Brandywine River Museum
Kuerner Farm Tours For more than 70 years, the historic Kuerner Farm was a major source of inspiration to Andrew Wyeth. Since his earliest painting of the farm in 1932 at the age of 15, Wyeth found subjects in its people, animals, buildings and landscapes for nearly 1,000 works of art. Due to uneven walking surfaces, the Kuerner Farm is not accessible to disabled individuals. Tours depart from the museum at timed intervals, Thursday through Sunday. Admission: $5 per person in addition to museum admission.
Brandywine River Museum
N.C. Wyeth House and Studio Tours 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. Tours depart from the museum at timed intervals, Thoursday through Sunday. Admission: $5 per person in addition to museum admission. Through November 20
Brandywine River Museum
N. C. Wyeth’s Treasure Island, Classic Illustrations for a Classic Tale 2011 is the 100th anniversary of the publication of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island with illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. The famous edition was a critical and popular success, established Wyeth among the period’s foremost illustrators, and became the iconic Treasure Island for generations of readers. To mark the anniversary, all 16 dramatic paintings created by Wyeth will be on display together for the first time since they left the artist’s studio a century ago. Through November 17
Brandywine River Museum
Honoring Howard Pyle: Major Works from the Collections The imaginative and fluent work of Howard Pyle (1853-1911) has thrilled readers and inspired generations of artists. This exhibition, drawn from the museum’s collection, will present a selection of vivid paintings and decorative drawings featuring pirates, Arthurian legends, fairy tales, events in American history and allegorical figures that made Pyle the most famous illustrator of his generation. Through November 17
Brandywine River Museum
Inspiring Minds: Howard Pyle as Teacher As a teacher of illustration from 1894 to 1905, Howard Pyle inspired the careers of both young and seasoned illustrators. This exhibition examines Pyle’s teaching methods that honed the skills of Jessie Willcox Smith, Thornton Oakley, Frank Schoonover, N.C Wyeth and many others. It includes examples of students’ class assignments as well as of their mature work. Period photographs that document activities of Pyle’s classes are also presented. Through January 29, 2012
Brandywine River Museum
Masterpieces by Andrew Wyeth from the Collections The museum’s superlative collection of works by Andrew Wyeth demonstrates a range of styles and subject matter representing the artist’s 75-year career. These works record the artist’s view of the landscape and his experiences with people and places. In addition, a selection of studies for these paintings is lent from the Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Collection. These seldom-seen works in pencil and watercolor demonstrate the artist’s close observation of form and his exploration of color and mood. Through November 20
Brandywine River Museum
Celebrating Four Decades of Collecting In celebration of its 40th anniversary, the museum’s galleries are filled to reflect the collection’s diverse landscapes, still life and genre painting, illustrations, as well as the work of N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, Jamie Wyeth, and the Wyeth family.
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Through January 8, 2012
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
Paint, Pattern & People
Furniture of Soutern Pennsylvania 1725-1850
This exhibition explores the furniture of southeastern Pennsylvania and the people who made, owned, inherited, and collected it. Delving into the cultures and creativity of the area’s inhabitants, primarily those of British and Germanic heritage, this comprehensive show features nearly 200 objects, including unique and colorful furniture, fraktur, needlework, paintings, and other items related to the history of the region.
Paint, Pattern & People sheds new light on distinctive local variations of furniture, presenting rare examples for which the maker or family history is known. The exhibition will be accompanied by a complementary video and special house tours as well as a fully illustrated, 304-page publication and a major symposium on the furniture of southeastern Pennsylvania. Join us for an in-depth exploration of this diverse region and its various creative expressions.
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Through November 20
Longwood Gardens
Chrysanthemum Festival
See the largest chrysanthemum in North America, the Thousand Bloom Mum, with more than 1,000 blooms. November 23 through January 8, 2012
Garden Railway Display
This year’s display features Thomas the Train along with new bridges and new water features. The Garden Railway will operate 9:00 am to 5:00 pm from September 3 through November 23 and then transform into the Christmas Railway from November 24 through January 8, 2012.
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Through November 6
Delaware Museum of Natural History
Nature-Inspired Art
Developed by the Museum and the Delaware College of Art and Design (DCAD), this collaborative exhibit features works of art by DCAD students who draw inspiration from the natural world. The works of art will be offered for sale to the general public with proceeds shared between the students, Museum and DCAD. Through November 27
Eat Like a Bird
Finding food in a wetland can be a challenge, but several bird species are uniquely adapted to take advantage of the bounty found in this habitat. This special exhibit features photographs by Harold Davis and interpretation by Jean Woods, Ph.D., the Museum’s Curator of Birds. Through December 22
Nikon’s Small World
Celebrate photography through the microscope at Nikon’s Small World on display near the mineral collection for a limited time. Extraordinary images of tiny subjects are displayed magnified up to hundreds of times to reveal surprising colors, textures, and shapes.
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Through November 17, 2011
Delaware Art Museum
Honoring Howard Pyle: Major Works from the Collection and Inspiring Minds: Howard Pyle as Teacher
The Brandywine River Museum (Centennial Partner Event) The Brandywine River Museum’s two exhibitions, Honoring Howard Pyle: Major Works from the Collection and Inspiring Minds: Howard Pyle as Teacher, are drawn largely from the rich collections of this Chadds Ford institution. Included are approximately 60 well-known drawings and paintings by Pyle depicting American history, pirates, medieval and mystical subjects, as well as folk and fairy tales. Through January 8, 2012
Delaware Art Museum
Anne Truitt: Luminosities
Drawn primarily from the Museum’s permanent collection, this exhibition features sculpture and works on paper by the artist Anne Truitt. Most closely aligned with Minimalism and the Washington, D.C.-based Color Field painters, the artist is considered an important figure of American abstraction and was the subject of a major exhibition in 2009 at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Truitt’s work explores the subtleties of light and color through abstract two- and three-dimensional forms and the artist’s desire to make light “visible for its own sake.” Through January 15, 2012
Delaware Art Museum
Escape to Adventure: Focus on Arthur E. Becher
German émigré artist Arthur Ernst Becher (1877-1960) studied in Milwaukee and Munich before joining Howard Pyle’s school of illustration in 1902. He went on to a long career, publishing illustrations for diversionary fiction that gave readers a generation of armchair adventures – ranging from thrilling historical exploits to contemporary crises of family and workplace. This exhibition also includes a number of works in the same vein by other illustrators. Escape to Adventure replaces the On Assignment: American Illustration exhibition in the Brock Vinton Galleries, which ends February 20, 2011.