Both museums will display a rotating, year-round selection of Wyeth’s work, including paintings, watercolors, sketches, sketchbooks and other materials. To manage the jointly located collection, the BRMA is hiring a new curator, a position funded by the foundation, to lead research, create exhibitions and loan the pieces to other institutions. The statement adds that the formerly unseen drawings, which make up the bulk of the collection, “will provide a vast trove of information that Wyeth’s thought process and experimentation with how to stage or represent different scenes.” The collection is “deeply personal and gives significant insight into Wyeth’s artistic and career trajectory,” per the release. Both museums are in regions where Wyeth lived and worked. The Wyeth Foundation for American Art is turning over its collection of nearly 7,000 Wyeth pieces to the Brandywine River Museum of Art (BRMA) in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and the Farnsworth Art Museum (FAM) in Rockland, Maine, per a joint statement. Now, thousands of Wyeth's works-many never shown publicly before-are available to museums, researchers and the public, thanks to a collections-sharing arrangement orchestrated by the late artist’s foundation. For seven decades, realist painter Andrew Wyeth crafted haunting scenes of American life, from the harsh, wintry landscapes of Maine to the struggles of Black Americans living in Pennsylvania in the mid-20th century.
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