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FRIDAY OCTOBER 11, 2024 • VOL. 54, NO. 41
Brandywine Museum Of Art To Present “The Crafted World Of Wharton Esherick” Exciting New Exhibit Opens Oct. 13
Opening at the Branworld. Organized thedywine Museum of Art matically, rather than this fall, “The Crafted by chronology or media, World of Wharton the exhibition will allow Esherick” will explore visitors to witness the the artistic legacy of evolution of Esherick’s Wharton Esherick (1887thinking around these 1970), one of the most primary design concepts. c r e a t i v e a n d i n t e r“This exhibition was disciplinary figures of o r i g i n al ly co n ce i ve d 2 0 t h - c e n t u r y A m e ryears ago as a small disican art, craft and play of Esherick’s wooddesign. Co-organized block prints from WEM’s by the Brandywine and collection at the Brandythe Wharton Esherick wine Museum of Art, but Museum (WEM), this the remarkable sweep major exhibition will of the artist’s crossdetail the artist’s career disciplinary creative brilfrom his early woodcut liance quickly led to this illustrations for books more expansive examb y t h e a v a n t- g a r d e ination,” said Thomas literati to his revoluPadon, the James H. Duff tionary reimagining of Director of the Branfurniture forms as dywine Museum of Art. organic sculpture. “The Wharton Esherick’s Studio. Photo by Charles Uniatowski, courtesy of the Wharton Esherick “In a partnership forged Crafted World” features Museum. over years of visits to more than 70 works by the Wharton Esherick the artist and will be the home and studio, confirst exhibition to draw versations and deliberexclusively from WEM’s ations, and marveling collection of over 3,000 together over the artobjects. The exhibition ist’s work, Brandywine will bring together works and our superb colfrom across different leagues at WEM develmedia mastered by the oped plans for this long artist from painting , overdue reassessment sculpture and printmakof Esherick’s contribuing to woodworking, furtions to American art.” niture making and illusWEM’s Executive Directration, including many tor, Julie Siglin, added, objects never before “Esherick engaged with seen outside of Esherthe world in a collaboick’s home and studio. rative way; likewise, this “The Crafted World” will exhibition has been a debut at the Brandyfundamentally collabwine and will be on view orative effort from the from Sunday, Oct. 13, start. WEM is thrilled to through Jan. 19, 2025. The Wharton Esherick’s Flat Top Desk, 1929 and 1962, is made of walnut and padouk, 28-by-82- share Esherick’s legacy museum has also orga- by-36 inches; Desk Chair, 1929, is walnut, padouk, with a laced leather seat, 28-by-18-by-18 more broadly with the nized a two-venue travel inches; and the Desk Figure is a bronze casting of a 1929 Cocobolo original, 10-by-5-by-4 world through this excittour for the exhibition inches, from the Wharton Esherick Museum Collection. Photo by Eoin O’Neill, courtesy of the ing partnership with the that will raise the profile Wharton Esherick Museum. Brandywine.” of this remarkable artist. Although “The Esherick is best known as Crafted World” is not a compreartworks, spanning seven decades remarkable collection housed in the father of the Studio Furnihensive retrospective of the artof artistic practice. “Esherick’s crethe artist’s home and studio.” ture Movement, which saw artist’s career, the exhibition uses ative work was inseparable from “The Crafted World” will be ists bringing their unique voices WEM’s significant collection, made his personal identity,” said Emily presented in thematic vignettes to handmade, functional objects up largely of the works Esherick Zilber, WEM’s Director of Curatorial that focus attention on recurand craft traditions, often reinsurrounded himself with, to highAffairs & Strategic Partnerships, ring design explorations across venting them with bold, experilight his integrated approach to and curator of the exhibition. “He Esherick’s body of creative work. mental techniques and forms. He living and artmaking. “Visitors to considered his hand-crafted hillThrough a variety of forms, forgrew up in West Philadelphia and ‘The Crafted World’ will be introside home and studio, which he mats and media, these vignettes later moved to Malvern, Pa., where duced to the artist’s singular voice, designed and built between 1926 will invite visitors to examine he built his own home and studio creativity and skill in a way that and 1966, the best representation the artist’s unconventional way on the slope of Valley Forge Mounrecontextualizes the objects with of his iconoclastic vision, calling it of life and some of his key artistain. Now operated as WEM, this innovative thematic approaches an autobiography in three dimentic interests, urban versus rural National Historic Landmark for to his work,” said Amanda Burdan, sions.’ It is significant, then, that life, the movement of the body in Architecture houses the world’s Senior Curator at the Brandywine, ‘The Crafted World’ is the largest space, the power of patterns, and largest collection of Esherick’s Continued on page 7 exhibition ever organized from the the organic growth of the natural
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Antique Village Of Strasburg Marks 25th Anniversary With Special Sale The Antique Village of S t ra s b u rg i s ce l e b ra t i n g 2 5 fantastic years in business. Esther Glick, owner and dealer, says the time has just flown by so quickly. It has been a whirlwind of changes with her property improvements, as well as the changes in the buying habits of the folks strolling through the doors. Items that were hard to come by when she started are more available and vice versa. Trying to stay in tune with the market is important and keeps the dealers of this active, multi-dealer shop on their toes. The 45-plus dealers offer everything from furniture, primitives, glass and china to mid-century modern Continued on page 6
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