|
|
|
Recent Acquisitions
A variety of recent acquisitions has strengthened this institution’s already remarkable holdings.
The Delaware Art Museum and the Brandywine River Museum jointly purchased a major work by Howard Pyle titled Richard de Bury Tutoring Young Edward III, an oil on canvas completed in 1903. Combining resources allowed the two museums to bring this highly valued painting to the region. Richard de Bury Tutoring Young Edward III serves to strengthen the connection between the Delaware Art Museum’s Howard Pyle and Pre-Raphaelite collections, which are linked through their mutual interest in retelling historical and medieval stories, as Pyle tells the story of a medieval king’s education and his love of books.
Dr. Robert Abel, a Wilmington ophthalmologist, and his wife Mike donated six works of African American art to the Museum in 2006, including We Know, 1986, from the Lynch Fragments series, by Melvin Edwards. These gifts led to the development of an exhibition titled Nature/Culture/Blues: Contemporary African American Art, featuring the donated works and more, which was displayed in the first half 2007.
Other new acquisitions include Then Another and Another Appeared…, c. 1912, and Bluebeard, 1871. Click on the links below for more details.
|
