This illustrated talk will give a behind-the-scenes look at a new exhibition at the Brandywine Museum of Art that will be of particular interest to friends of the Haverford College Arboretum. Every Leaf & Twig: Andrew Wyeth’s Botanical Imaginationbrings together a remarkable group of watercolors, most never before exhibited, that reflect the way this uniquely place-based American artist responded to individual specimens of southeastern Pennsylvania’s plant life. Not as a botanical illustrator but as an art historically literate visionary, Andrew Wyeth found in the ordinary plant life of Chadds Ford a point of departure for remarkable creations.
Dr. William L. Coleman ’07 is Wyeth Foundation Curator and Director of the Andrew & Betsy Wyeth Study Center at the Brandywine Museum of Art, with additional oversight of staff and collections at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Maine. After Haverford, where he is a member of the Corporation and an occasional alumni interviewer for Admissions, he earned two master’s degrees in the UK, a doctorate from Berkeley, and fellowships from the NEH and Smithsonian. He writes, teaches, and curates exhibitions centering on the landscape art of the United States.
