New NC Wyeth Paintings Come To Chester County

Chester County Art Association is pleased to present the Founders Exhibition. Seventeen paintings by illustrious

artist and CCAA Founder N.C. Wyeth will be exhibited in CCAA’s Allinson Gallery this Fall from October 10‐ 18,
9AM‐ 8PM (11AM‐ 6PM on Sundays). Sixteen of these works make up a unique and stunning set which is on loan
from The Hill School in Pottstown Pennsylvania, and and one very beloved NC Wyeth painting, The Giant, is on
loan from the Westtown School, Westtown, Pennsylvania.

Each of The Hill School’s sixteen paintings illustrates a literary work by an American poet, such as Walt Whitman
and Henry Longfellow, and depicts a momentous event in our history. Images of Washington Serving Liberty,
Nathan Hale (September 2, 1776), Paul Revere’s Ride, and Warren’s Address (June 17, 1775) will grace the gallery.
N.C. Wyeth’s The Giant can be found front‐and‐center in the cafeteria of the Westtown School. As the largest
painting in the Founders Exhibition, CCAA will enjoy the privilege of including it with the same central billing.

N.C. Wyeth was a pre‐eminent early 20th century painter who helped to establish the “Brandywine tradition” of
painting. Also included in the exhibition will be publications by art critic and CCAA founder Christian Brinton, early
letters from original CCAA art director William Palmer Lear, and paintings by CCAA charter‐member George Gillett
Whitney. Four paintings by George Whitney will travel from Westtown School along with The Giant.

The Founders Exhibition will mark the 84th anniversary of the founding of CCAA by Newel Convers Wyeth and his colleagues Dr. Christian Brinton and William Palmer Lear. The Art Association plans to celebrate this exhibition with several ticketed events and lectures from esteemed art experts, including Victoria Wyeth, great granddaughter of N.C. Wyeth. For tickets to the exhibition and more information please go to the CCAA website www.chestercountyarts.org or call 610‐696‐5600.

In the charter to the Chester County Art Association, N.C. Wyeth’s colleague Christian Brinton wrote, “The
Association merely wishes to acknowledge a sense of sincere obligation upon assuming the task of making Chester
County more actively, and courageously, art conscious..,” and since that founding Charter of 1931, CCAA has
actively engaged the Chester County art community with classes, exhibits, and art events every year. The first
major exhibit by the Association drew more than 4,000 visitors. Horace Pippin, famous artist recently celebrated in
“The Way I see It” at the Brandywine Museum of Art, first exhibited at the Chester County Art Association where
he was given his first one man show.

Founders Exhibition Events and Activities

All events Free with Entry Tickets. Sign‐up for lectures necessary (100 Maximum), Sketch sessions $20.

Founder Preview Reception, Friday October 9, 7‐10PM. $125 per person
The CCAA Board is proud to host this grand opening event which debuts the Founders Exhibition.
Reception sponsor Andersen & Stauffer Furniture Makers

Mary Uhl Brooks, Saturday October 10, 2PM. Refreshments at 1:30.
Please join us for a lecture by Westtown’s Archivist, Mary Brooks, on “Wyeth, Whitney, and Westtown.”

Victoria Wyeth, Monday October 12, 6PM. Refreshments at 5:30.
Victoria Wyeth will share the lore of her great grandfather and of Brandywine Valley’s beloved and
talented Wyeth family.

Christine Podmaniczky, Wednesday October 14, 6PM. Refreshments at 5:30.
Join us to hear Christine Podmaniczky, Curator of N.C. Wyeth Collections at the Brandywine River
Museum, discuss N.C. Wyeth’s Poems of American Patriotism paintings. She will also share a
comparison of these paintings with those works the artist sent to the annual exhibitions of the Chester County Art Association.

Sketch Sessions, Tuesday October 13 and Thursday October 15, 9‐11AM.
Artists are invited to bring art materials into the gallery to study a master and interpret or replicate the
beautiful detail, full forms, sensuous atmosphere and edited color palette of N.C. Wyeth.

Founders Closing Reception, Sunday October 18, 2PM.
Join us to hear the performers of the Uptown Entertainment Group recite the poems from the Poems of
American Patriotism collection while enjoying the illustrations N.C. Wyeth has provided of each.