Area student work to share space with masters

Brandywine River Museum to debut new rotating exhibition The Brandywine River Museum will debut a new display of area student works on Nov. 10. “Imagine Brandywine,” a new exhibition space at the Brandywine River Museum for the display of creative art projects by area school students, will debut on Nov.10. The inaugural display – inspired by the museum’s collection and landscape – will...

For tourism marketing, south of France hits home

New  campaign will capitalize on county’s cosmopolitan flair By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times Blair Mahoney, executive director of the Chester County Conference and Visitors Bureau, explained the importance of boosting tourism in the region. It wasn’t exactly an identity crisis, but the folks entrusted with promoting the area as a tourist destination have agonized for some...

Free family workshop to focus on Horace Pippin

Brandywine River Museum to host story-reading, book-signing and art activities A book by Chester County author Jen Bryant will be the focus of a free family workshop at the Brandywine River Museum. The fascinating and challenging life of West Chester artist Horace Pippin will be the focus of a family workshop, author’s talk and book-signing at The Brandywine River Museum on Sunday, Feb. 24, from...

Iconic paintings to offer window into their era

Upcoming Brandywine River Museum lecture series will focus on five works The Brandywine River Museum is hosting a five-part lecture series on American art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that starts Friday at 10 a.m. Five iconic works at the Brandywine River Museum promise insight about the times in which they took shape, courtesy of an upcoming lecture series. Starting this Friday at 10...