Over more than six decades, Kuerner Farm in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania inspired nearly 1,000 artworks in a wide variety of genres and media by Andrew Wyeth, including some of his most recognizable creations.

To mark the 25th anniversary of the transition of Kuerner Farm from a family home into a public site visited and sketched by thousands annually, the Brandywine (which owns Kuerner Farm) and Reynolda House Museum of American Art (itself the owner of an important Kuerner watercolor), have joined forces to co-organize Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm: The Eye of the Earth. 

This exhibition, which will open on June 21 and extend through Sept. 28, brings together some of the artist’s iconic Kuerner works like the temperas Karl and Snow Hill with masterpieces of the watercolor medium like Wolf Moon and First Snow, and some exciting works that are new to public display from private collections and the remarkable holdings of the Andrew & Betsy Wyeth Collection of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, which is managed by the Brandywine as of 2022.

Kuerner Farm, a short walk from Andrew Wyeth’s studio, served as a place of immersion for the artist, who after earning the trust of the Kuerner family, gained access to the property and became familiar with the farm’s landscape. There, he took sustained inspiration from the evocative farmhouse at its heart, as well as the people who lived and worked there. Through this source material, Wyeth honed in on some of the abiding concerns of his life’s work. 

The exhibition’s title comes from Wyeth’s recollections of this powerful place: “I recalled the marvelous amber color of the rich landscape and the lucid pond looking almost like the eye of the earth reflecting everything in creation.”

This exhibition is organized by the Brandywine Museum of Art and Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem, N.C., in association with the Wyeth Foundation for American Art. William L. Coleman, Ph.D. (Brandywine Museum of Art) and Allison Slaby (Reynolda House Museum of American Art) are the curators of the exhibition, which has received generous support from Wells Fargo. To learn more about the exhibition, visit https://www.brandywine.org/museum.