Andrew Wyeth</a> 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.</p><p>Co-organized by <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Reynolda-House-Museum-of-American-Art/"/Organization/Reynolda-House-Museum-of-American-Art/FB0ED83C50DF76E2">Reynolda House Museum of American Art</a> 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 &amp; Gardens in Jacksonville, Florida, where it runs from late 2025 to early 2026.</p><p>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.</p><p><br></p>" itemprop="description" />

artist Leigh Ann Hallberg</a> creates large-scale abstract paintings inspired by her journey through local landscapes, including the Reynolda landscape. Hallberg, who has taught painting at Wake Forest University since 1999, chose a square format for the series, which she says leaves the viewer’s understanding of the work open—the abstract painting is neither portrait nor landscape. Instead, it is a pretend space in which the viewer is able to reconsider and reimagine their experience of nature through the works.</p><p>Hallberg employs a variety of color palettes and metal leaf. She uses the medium of watercolor in order to pull out its inherent qualities of flow, dripping, and puddling, which she considers nearly indexical with substances of the natural world: water, soil, and vegetation. In fact, most of the watercolor pigments are derived from materials found in the earth. The metal leaf invokes the idea of time and its passage, as the viewer’s perception of the leaf (reflective, a void, a light) shifts over the course of the day, under various lighting conditions and viewing angles.</p><p><br></p>" itemprop="description" />