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Chadds Ford / Stati Uniti d'America

Chadds Ford è una piccola cittadina situata nella contea di Delaware, trenta chilometri a sud di Philadelphia. Secondo il censimento del 2000 conta 3.170 abitanti. Prima del 1996 la città era conosciuta come Birmingham Township ma poi il nome fu cambiato per permettere ad essa di non essere confusa con l'omonimo Census-designated place e per evidenziare il suo ruolo nella battaglia di Brandywine. A Chadds Ford vissero N. C. Wyeth, il figlio Andrew e il nipote Jamie, famosi artisti statunitensi. Il campo di battaglia di Brandywine è situato nel territorio della cittadina, come il Brandywine River Museum, che ospita la maggior parte delle opere dei Wyeth. Dalla fondazione della Chaddsford Winery nel 1982 la città è diventata centro di viticoltura e di produzione vinicola.

Brandywine River Museum of Art

Chadds Ford / Stati Uniti d'America

The Brandywine River 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 art of Andrew Wyeth, a major American realist painter, and his family: his father N.C. Wyeth, illustrator of many children’s classics, and his son Jamie Wyeth, a contemporary American realist painter.The museum is housed in a converted nineteenth century mill with a dramatic steel and glass addition overlooking the banks of the Brandywine River . The museum's permanent collection features American illustration, still life works, and landscape painting by Jasper Francis Cropsey, Harvey Dunn, Peter Hurd, Maxfield Parrish, Howard Pyle, William Trost Richards, and Jessie Willcox Smith. The glass-wall lobby overlooks the river and rolling countryside that inspired the Brandywine School earlier in the early 20th century.The museum also owns and operates tours of three nearby National Historic Landmarks: the N. C. Wyeth House and Studio, the Kuerner Farm, inspiration for nearly 1,000 works of art by Andrew Wyeth for more than 70 years, and the Andrew Wyeth Studio, where the artist painted from 1940 until just before his death. The building also served as his home; he and his wife Betsy moved in as newlyweds and lived here until the early 1960s, raising their two sons. Outside the museum are beautifully maintained wildflower and native plant gardens.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.