The Art of Giving: Selections from the Richard M. Scaife Bequest

For this exhibition, the Brandywine River Museum of Art and The Westmoreland have come together to share their finest works from the Richard M. Scaife Bequest. Following his death in 2014, Mr. Scaife left his collection to The Westmoreland and the Brandywine, allowing each to choose works through a selection process conducted in a round-robin format. Both museums gained masterworks of American art for their collections. Seeing these paintings together for the first time not only highlights the range of Mr. Scaife’s collecting tastes, but allows visitors insight into the collecting vision of both museums as well as the selection process itself.

While located on opposite sides of the state, and just outside the major metropolitan areas of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, both museums share a common mission: the dedication to and exhibition of American art, with a regional focus in their collecting.

The Westmoreland’s collection spans 1750 to the present, with both national and regional American artists represented through paintings, sculpture, decorative arts and works on paper. Special collections document the transformation of the southwestern Pennsylvania landscape from agrarian to industrial.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website