Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm: The Eye of the Earth
February 15, 2025 — May 25, 2025
Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing Gallery
One of the most popular and celebrated American artists of the twentieth century, Andrew Wyeth spent seven decades painting a particular farm in his hometown of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. “Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm: The Eye of the Earth” will be the first comprehensive examination of this defining subject in his work in fifty years. This exhibition tells the story of the connection between artist and place—one of the most enduring connections in American art.
Co-organized by Reynolda House Museum of American Art and the Brandywine Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, the exhibition makes its national debut at Reynolda in February 2025 before traveling to the Brandywine in the summer months. It will conclude its tour at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens in Jacksonville, Florida, where it runs from late 2025 to early 2026.
Andrew Wyeth painted nearly 1,000 depictions of Kuerner Farm, including some of his most iconic masterworks in tempera and watercolor. He spoke often of the inspiration he found at Kuerner Farm, including one instance in which he called the charismatic pond reflecting the house “the eye of the earth,” giving us our title. In addition to a wide variety of loans from public and private collections, many of the artworks on view are drawn from Andrew and Betsy Wyeth’s private collection, including some that have never been exhibited before.
Reynolda House is grateful to the exhibition’s national sponsor, the Wells Fargo Foundation, for its immense support. Local presenting sponsors in Winston-Salem currently include the Cathleen and Ray McKinney Exhibition Fund and Reynolds American.
This exhibition will be accompanied by a substantial catalogue published by Rizzoli Electa, with support from the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, with essays by the co-curators: Dr. William L. Coleman, Wyeth Foundation curator and director, Andrew & Betsy Wyeth Study Center at the Brandywine Museum and Allison C. Slaby, curator at Reynolda House.
The dates and venues are as follows:
- Reynolda House Museum of American Art: February 15 – May 25, 2025
- Brandywine Museum of Art: June 21 – September 28, 2025
- Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens: October 25, 2025 – February 15, 2026
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Header Image:
Andrew Wyeth, SnowHill, 1989 Tempera on panel, 48 x 72 in. Collection of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art © 2024 Wyeth Foundation for American Art/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY