By Paul Goldfinger. Brandywine River Valley series.
JACOB FISCHER. “Two Sleepy People.”
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West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Posted in Photography: Brandywine River Valley series, tagged Brandywine Valley on November 10, 2023| 1 Comment »
Brandywine Creek…
Posted in Photography: Brandywine River Valley series, tagged Brandywine Creek, John Denver "I'm Sorry" on August 30, 2023| 1 Comment »
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. 2013. By Paul Goldfinger © Wyeth country.
JOHN DENVER “I’m Sorry”
Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year
Posted in Photography: Black and White gallery, Photography: Brandywine River Valley series, tagged Music: Anita O'Day, Spring will be a little late this year on January 7, 2023|
Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. 2013. By Paul Goldfinger ©
ANITA O’DAY and CAL TJADER. (vibraphone)
Andrew Wyeth’s Studio. Part 2
Posted in Photography: Brandywine River Valley series, Travel articles, tagged Andrew Wyeth's studio in Chadd's Ford on October 11, 2021| 6 Comments »
The Mill (detail) 1959. By Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) Drybrush on paper. From a Brandywine River Museum Publication. Chadds Ford, Pa. © Andrew Wyeth. Left click all images
Entrance to Andrew Wyeth’s studio in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Guided tour presented by the Brandywine River Museum. September 2013. Paul Goldfinger photo ©
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.net We have a number of posts about this great artist . You can put his name into our search box above.
2013:
There is a sign on Andrew Wyeth’s studio door which says “I am working, so please do not disturb. I do not sign autographs.” He liked his privacy. He planted lots of shrubs and trees around so that the simple white house would not be noticed.
On the way to the studio each morning, Wyeth would stop at Wawa and pick up eggs to make tempera paint.
Andrew Wyeth’s studio by NY Times photographer Jessica Kourkounis * May, 2013. Note the northerly light that artists love.
His grand-daughter Victoria Browning Wyeth happened by while we were assembling outside. She had spent the morning with a BBC crew that was interviewing her and photographing inside. She is a bubbly young woman who was carrying a sketch-like water color that her grandfather made for her. She briefly held it up so that we all could see.
The drawing shows Andrew Wyeth in Maine, sitting on the rocks overlooking the ocean in Cushing, Maine where he spent his summers. He is with his dog and he is sketching. He is wearing a Ralph Lauren jacket which Victoria showed us. He liked to wear that jacket when he painted, and she showed us the paint splatters on the sleeves. Beneath the picture is a personal letter from A.W. to Victoria.
We posted a photograph of Victoria with that painting along with a quote of her grandfather’s letter to her and a closeup of the letter.
However, she e-mailed us today and asked that we remove the image and the text quote on the grounds that they are copyright. She did not tell us that the image was copyright when she showed it to the entire group. Many of us were taking photos of her. However, we have agreed to her request.
* New York Times travel article May,, 2013, is very good: NY Times Wyeth article
AARON COPLAND. London Symphony Orchestra. “Down a Country Lane” (1962). Album: Orchestral Works (1948-1971)
Brandywine River Museum
Posted in Music from the stage, Photography: Brandywine River Valley series on December 1, 2019|
Brandywine River Museum. Chadds Ford, Pa. By Paul Goldfinger © Brandywine River Series. 2013. Silver gelatin darkroom print. Tri-X.
THE FANTASTICKS:
Longwood Gardens
Posted in Music from the stage, Photographic Gallery, Color, Photography: Brandywine River Valley series, tagged Photo: Longwood Gardens on January 14, 2019|
Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. By Paul Goldfinger © Click to enlarge.
PATRICIA PETIBON. From Rinaldo, Act 2. “Lascia Ch’io Pianga” By George Frideric Handel (1711–in Italian)
Banana Tree
Posted in Photography: Brandywine River Valley series, tagged Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring on September 19, 2013| 2 Comments »
Banana tree leaf at Longwood Gardens. By Eileen Goldfinger. September 2013. © Brandywine River Valley series.
AARON COPLAND. “Very Slowly” from Appalachian Spring. London Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Wyeth’s Studio
Posted in Photographic Gallery, Color, Photography: Brandywine River Valley series, tagged Andrew Wyeth's studio in Chadd's Ford on September 14, 2013|
Andrew Wyeth’s studio. 2013. Chadds Ford, Pa. By Eileen Goldfinger. From the Brandywine Valley series. Click left on all our photos.
Andrew Wyeth spent every fall and winter in Chadds Ford, Pa. He worked in a house that contained his studio, with light coming in from the north. He would work in that studio while classical music played. His granddaughter Victoria, whom we met, said that the studio was quite messy–not what you would expect for such a meticulous artist.
Andrew Wyeth was a collector of World War One objects, and a couple of helmets can be seen on the window sill. The swords in his collection were used for fencing with Douglas Fairbanks when he came to visit.
The house that contained the studio is white and quite simple. It was open to the public only last summer (2012). We will be posting more images from this series.
JOE VENUTI from the album “Performance.”