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American Treaures
Padon, Thomas; Podmaniczky, Christine
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Description for American Treaures
The first book to celebrate the dramatic Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, setting and renowned art collection of the Brandywine River Museum of Art and its historic homes, studios, and sites relating to three generations of the Wyeth family. Num Pages: 128 pages, 100 Colour Photographs. BIC Classification: AB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 203. Weight in Grams: 567.
The Brandywine River Museum of Art is home to one of the country s renowned collections of American art. This stunning book reveals the beauty of the museum s remarkable holdings, housed in a renovated nineteenth-century mill building with a steel- and-glass addition overlooking the Brandywine River, and of its three historic properties the N. C. Wyeth home and studio, the Andrew Wyeth studio, and the Kuerner Farm, which inspired over 1,000 works by Andrew Wyeth all National Historic Landmarks. This volume features fifty of the museum s most beloved paintings, by artists such as John Kensett, Martin Johnson Heade, ... Read more
The Brandywine River Museum of Art is home to one of the country s renowned collections of American art. This stunning book reveals the beauty of the museum s remarkable holdings, housed in a renovated nineteenth-century mill building with a steel- and-glass addition overlooking the Brandywine River, and of its three historic properties the N. C. Wyeth home and studio, the Andrew Wyeth studio, and the Kuerner Farm, which inspired over 1,000 works by Andrew Wyeth all National Historic Landmarks. This volume features fifty of the museum s most beloved paintings, by artists such as John Kensett, Martin Johnson Heade, ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Rizzoli International Publications United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
136
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780847859610
SKU
V9780847859610
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Ref
99-15
About Padon, Thomas; Podmaniczky, Christine
Thomas Padon is director of the Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA. Christine Podmaniczky is curator of N. C. Wyeth Collections and Historic Properties at the Brandywine River Museum of Art and author of N. C. Wyeth: Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings.
Reviews for American Treaures
"...features 50 paintings from the renowned art collection of the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, Pa., and celebrates the beauty of the actual museum as well as its holdings; with a foreword by Thomas Padon, the museum’s director." —Publishers Weekly, Spring 2017 Announcements