Arts Playlist: “Every Leaf & Twig” at the Brandywine Museum of Art

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Andrew Wyeth, Untitled, 2000, watercolor on paper, B3 937v, unframed: 21 ½ x 27 ½ in.

Collection of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art

A new exhibition, “Every Leaf & Twig: Andrew Wyeth’s Botanical Imagination,” is officially open to the public at the Brandywine Museum of Art.

The exhibit centers on Andrew Wyeth’s unique interest in plant life and most of the 40 watercolors and drawings on view have never been exhibited before.

In this edition of Arts Playlist, Delaware Public Media’s Karl Lengel is joined by William Coleman – the Brandywine’s Wyeth Foundation Curator and Director of the Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Study Center – to learn more about “Every Leaf & Twig.”

Brandywine curator William Coleman previews the “Every Leaf & Twig" exhibit with Delaware Public Media’s Karl Lengel

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The Brandywine River Museum of Arts’ "Every Leaf and Twig" exhibition explores Andrew Wyeth’s take on his natural surroundings.

The Wyeth Foundation for American Art is the source of 40 watercolors and drawings, many of which have never been exhibited before.

Will Coleman is the museum’s Wyeth Foundation Curator and Director of the Andrew & Betsy Wyeth Study Center.

Coleman says the exhibit notices Wyeth’s attention to compelling forms, colors, and stories unfolding in the painter’s daily walks.

"Beautiful botanical watercolors, zooming in rather than zooming out, as he walked around this fairly narrowly circumscribed region - just about a two-mile radius around Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania."

"Every Leaf & Twig" at The Brandywine is the second part of a larger exhibition, following a presentation of related Maine works wrapping up this month at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Maine.

Coleman says Wyeth has a flair for very small, and intricate subjects.

"They seem to come out of his fundamentally pedestrian practice: walking this landscape, coming to know it deeply, coming to know the trees and the plants of the regions over the cycles of the natural world."

"Every Leaf & Twig" at The Brandywine runs through September 15th.

Delaware Public Media's arts coverage is made possible, in part, by support from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.