The Way Back: The Paintings of George A. Weymouth

Exhibition Website

Jan 27 2018 - Jun 3 2018

  

In addition to his roles as founder and board chairman of the Brandywine Conservancy and Museum of Art, land and historic preservationist, George A. “Frolic” Weymouth (1936-2016) was a highly talented artist.

This landmark exhibition of approximately 65 of Weymouth’s best works of art in all media reveals the breadth of his visual investigations. From the loose energetic style and monochromatic palette of Weymouth’s early oils in the 1950s, the mature artist, mentored by his close friend Andrew Wyeth, used the mediums of watercolor and egg tempera to create haunting, hushed landscapes and powerful portraits.

Joseph Rishel, a preeminent scholar and distinguished former curator of European Paintings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is the guest curator for the exhibition. Acquainted with Weymouth for decades, Rishel brings enormous insight into this, the definitive examination of the artist’s long career. 


Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.
Image left: August, 1974, tempera on panel, 48 x 48”. Gift of George A. Weymouth and McCoy duPont Weymouth in honor of Mr. and Mrs. George T. Weymouth, 2017. © George A. Weymouth
Image right:Gathering Storm, 1964, tempera on panel, 23 ¾ x 22”. Patricia W. Hobbs. © George A. Weymouth

Whether or not you go, the exhibition catalogue, The Way Back: The Paintings of George A. Weymouth, is the first monograph on this highly talented American realist painter and heir to the Brandywine school of artists.  Weymouth was a visionary conservationist and accomplished painter. Like his friend and artistic mentor Andrew Wyeth, Weymouth worked chiefly in egg tempera and watercolor to create a highly personal panorama of the landscapes and people he knew in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, where he lived.

Weymouth, a sixth-generation member of the du Pont family, was not only a skillful painter but also a seminal force in preserving tens of thousands of acres of picturesque scenery around the Brandywine River in Pennsylvania and Delaware. Weymouth also cofounded the Brandywine River Museum of Art, home to a distinguished collection of American art dating to the mid-nineteenth century and renowned for its holdings representing three generations of the Wyeth family of artists.

Richly illustrated with Weymouth’s paintings and sketches from throughout his career, this large-format volume also includes a chronology of the artist’s fascinating life, illustrated with many personal and archival images.

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  • Painting
  • American
  • 20th Century
  • George A. Weymouth

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