Brandywine River Museum: Museum Report

Curtis Hess
Museum Experience

The outside activity that I chose to do was to visit a museum. The museum in which I visited was the Brandywine River Museum. This museum is located in Chadds Ford PA, which is right outside of Philadelphia, and like the name says it sits right along the Brandywine River. I went to this fine art museum with my sister who lives in the area and we did not take a guided tour, instead we just walked around on our own time and were able to talk about the paintings with each other and express our likes and dislikes of a certain picture or sculpture. The two major collections in this museum were the Jamie Wyeth collection and the Andrew Wyeth: Lines of Thought collection. There was also a heritage collection. The museum itself was in a very beautiful building and the view of the Brandywine River made the experience at the museum much better because there were some pieces in the museum that were similar to the landscape of the outside, which is thought was nice because you could look at a painting then look outside and they almost looked alike due to the painting being done so well.
In the heritage collection there were many paintings that showed off the country lands and landscape of
Jamie Wyeth was the third generation artist in a family who was known for having artists. There is over 100 pieces done by Jamie in this museum. These pieces contained artwork showing off paintings of others, paintings of the landscape in which Jamie was living at the time and just random object he wanted to paint. Many of his paintings you could see the brushwork, which can be seen as a characteristic of his style of painting. He would paint on almost anything, from canvases to paper. The oddest thing he did a painting on was just regular old cardboard. I find it weird that you could just paint on a piece of cardboard and it becomes famous and is put into a