Rural Pennsylvania Artists and American Modernism

<p>Join us on Thursday, April 9th at 6:00 PM for a talk in the 1956 Workshop by the Brandywine Museum of Art’s Senior Curator, and co-curator of The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick, Amanda Burdan. Amanda will be building on WEM’s Spring exhibition, Pennsylvania Modern: Regionalism and the Wharton Esherick Studio by discussing the way that other artists in the region like N.C. Wyeth, Charles Demuth, Ralston Crawford, and Charles Sheeler, painted familiar regional scenes in order to explore novel modernist techniques for American audiences. The talk will highlight the different ways Wharton Esherick and other Pennsylvania artists at the time engaged with the industrial and heritage buildings that dotted the countryside such as bank barns, mills, and farmhouses. </p> <p>After the talk, WEM curators Emily Zilber and Holly Gore will join Amanda for a guided Q&A discussion. Participants are welcome to peruse WEM’s Spring exhibition Pennsylvania Modern: Regionalism and the Wharton Esherick Studio in the Visitor Center at 5:30 PM for the half hour before the program. Light refreshments will be provided.</p>