Saturday, December 28, 2019
A balmy winter day, great for a trip to the
Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, PA.
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The former Hoffman's Mill (1864) was renovated in 1971 for the
Brandywine River Museum of Art, as part of the Brandywine Conservancy |
The renovation project was designed by architect James R Grieves, who was also involved in a 1984 addition, and the 2004 expansion. The sculpture of
Boy with Hawk (1971) is by Charles Parks.
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A Brandywine Christmas features trees decorated
with Critter ornaments, handmade from natural materials |
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| A fish Critter (KSS) |
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| A human Critter? (KSS) |
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| Alien flowers and is that the Frog Prince? |
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| Dried hydrangea blossoms and corn husk dolls |
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| On the third level is a panoramic view of Brandywine River |
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The Nicholas Wyeth Train Display, commissioned in 1976 for
the older son of Andrew Wyeth; it was designed to fit in his
Manhattan apartment and to run his 1920s Lionel train |
The train display was donated to the museum in 2014, and enhanced with reproductions of vintage monorail and race cars.
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| A nearly three-story tree |
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| One tree was decorated only with bear Critters |
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| A Noah's Ark of Critters |
Volunteers take all year to create the Critters, of which hundreds are also for sale. No two alike!
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| Part of an eleven-room dollhouse (c 1900) |
A Brandywine Christmas also features an O-gauge model train display in a darkened room, the better to see lighted buildings, train cars, the movie at the drive-in theater, etc..
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An endless freight train enters a tunnel,
as a UFO hovers over the mountain |
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| At least five trains are constantly on the go |
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| There are some concessions to modern times |
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| The train yard is behind the oil refinery |
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| Panning right to the residential area (KSS) |
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| From residential to commercial (KSS) |
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| The control board |
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| Katrina, Kyle, Tamiko, and Kent pose with Helen |
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Then the spouse of the photo-taker grabbed the camera
for some non-posed pictures... |
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Helen (1989) by André Harvey; is a
portrait of a pig personally known to Mr Harvey |
Next: The Art of Brandywine River Museum of Art.
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