Details

Description

xx, 237 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 22 cm

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part One: Artists of the Brandywine Tradition. Chapter 1. Celebrating the Colonial Brandywine: Howard Pyle to N. C. Wyeth -- Chapter 2. The Walking Painter -- Chapter 3. Andrew Wyeth: A New Interpretation -- Part Two: Exploring Wyeth Country. Tour 1. "An Illustrators' Haven": Brandywine Battlefield Park -- Tour 2. Harvey Run Trail -- Tour 3. Trail to the Wyeth Studios at Rocky Hill -- Tour 4. Brandywine River Trail to the John Chads House -- Tour 5. "The Most Famous Farm in the World": Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner's -- Tour 6. Archie's Corner to the Brandywine.

Summary

"A history of the Wyeth family artists, those who influenced them, and the environs in which they worked, combined with six walking and driving tours that allow readers to visit the places that the Wyeths painted in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania"-- Provided by publisher.

Subject

Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009 -- Homes and haunts.

Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 -- Homes and haunts.

Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945 -- Homes and haunts.

Artists -- Brandywine Creek Valley (Pa. and Del.)

Chadds Ford (Pa.) -- Guidebooks.

Brandywine Creek Valley (Pa. and Del.) -- Guidebooks.

Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911.

Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009.

Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945.

Artists.

Homes.

Pennsylvania -- Chadds Ford.

United States -- Brandywine Creek Valley.

Genre/Form

Guidebooks.

Guidebooks.

ISBN

9781439920701 paperback

1439920702 paperback