点评:The Brandywine Museum of Art is housed in a 19th-century mill enhanced with a steel and glass addition with wide circulation windows on each of the three floors that overlook Brandywine Creek, which today after heavy rains had become a racing brown river. We were lucky that three major exhibitions overlapped this week. "Tell me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund"
Features photographs, letters, and original art of one of the first women cartoonists to work forThe New Yorker after its launch in 1925, where she she created nine covers and contributed hundreds of cartoons for the magazine. Her documenting of the social norms and life of the country between the two world wars was spot on. A second exhibition, This Earthen Door: Nature as Muse and Material, artists Leah Sobsey and Amanda Marchand took inspiration from Emily Dickinson’s deep connection to the natural world abd created a vibrant series of plant-based artworks. Emily Dickinson, in her early years, was interested in botany, and flowers and natural colors inspired her poetry and became the source of natural dyes featured in the prints. The Wyeth family inspires much in the collections at the Brandywine, and the third exhibit focused on "Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm: The Eye of the Earth." Both the Wyeth family home and the neighboring farm are a short distance from the museum. Even during the middle of the week, these exhibits attracted a large number of patrons. This is an important cultural resource for southeast Pennsylvania and surrounding states.
翻译:布兰迪万艺术博物馆坐落在一座19世纪的磨坊内,该磨坊增建了钢和玻璃幕墙,三层楼的每一层都设有宽敞的循环窗户,可以俯瞰布兰迪万溪。如今,大雨过后,布兰迪万溪变成了一条湍急的棕色河流。我们很幸运,本周有三个大型展览同期举办。“告诉我一个坏女孩获胜的故事:芭芭拉·舍蒙德的人生与艺术”
展出了照片、信件和原创作品,她是1925年《纽约客》创刊后首批为该杂志工作的女性漫画家之一。她创作了九幅封面,并贡献了数百幅漫画。她对两次世界大战期间美国社会规范和生活的记录堪称一流。第二个展览是“这扇土门:作为缪斯和材料的自然”,艺术家利亚·索布西和阿曼达·马尔尚从艾米莉·狄金森与自然世界的深厚联系中汲取灵感,创作了一系列充满活力的植物艺术作品。艾米莉·狄金森早年对植物学很感兴趣,花卉和自然色彩激发了她的诗歌创作,并成为版画中天然染料的来源。怀斯家族的藏品为布兰迪万博物馆的藏品提供了许多灵感,第三场展览的主题是“安德鲁·怀斯在库尔纳农场:地球之眼”。怀斯家族的住宅和邻近的农场距离博物馆都很近。即使在周中,这些展览也吸引了大批参观者。这对宾夕法尼亚州东南部及周边各州来说是一个重要的文化资源。