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Jamie Wyeth (born 1946), Portrait of Pig, 1970, oil on canvas, 48 x 84 inches, Brandywine River Museum. © Jamie Wyeth.

Farm Work by Jamie Wyeth at Brandywine River Museum
ArtfixDaily Staff - June 28th, 2011 22:25

Portly pigs, graceful horses, and plucky chickens figure largely in Jamie Wyeth's lively depictions of farm work and life in the current exhibition at the Brandywine River Museum. These seemingly docile creatures populate serene landscapes and mix with images of farm objects in a world that the artist knows well---his family farm in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and its environs. "I always said that if born in New York, I would be painting cabs or something, but it happens that I was raised in ...

Image Courtesy of International Poster Gallery

“Pack Your Bags!” at International Poster Gallery
Release Date: 28 June 2011
BOSTON, MA - International Poster Gallery (IPG) proudly presents their 18th annual summer poster show “Pack Your Bags!”, an exhibition of original travel and transportation posters from around the world. The exhibition, which is free and open to the public and runs July 4 – Labor Day, ...

Top 10 Reasons to Check Out I.M. Chait's July 10 Auction
Release Date: 20 June 2011
1. No one else handles Chinese porcelains like I.M. Chait. The 14th Century Yuan Dynasty blue and white charger with traditional design of lotus blossoms flanking a center palm would be a fortune anywhere else. I.M. Chait estimates correctly and expects the 15¾ inches charger, Lot 210, from an ...

Grand Opening for New Museum in Detroit, Michigan
Release Date: 27 June 2011
Detroit, Michigan’s newest museum, the Kunsthalle Detroit Museum of Light-Based Arts Celebrates It's Grand Opening in Style. Opening it’s doors on June 10th, 2011, the new Kunsthalle Detroit Museum welcomed visitors into the first museum of multimedia and light-based arts in the U.S. ...

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	RICHARD HAINES: SUBDIVIDING THE SPACE Release Date: 23 June 2011 Sullivan Goss – An American Gallery presents RICHARD HAINES: SUBDIVIDING THE SPACE, a sweeping exhibition of paintings by WPA Muralist and later West Coast Modernist, Richard Haines. Comprising the artist’s experiments with Precisionism in the 1930s and advancing through his ... Read more

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