Wyeth's 'Treasure' art at Brandywine
N.C. Wyeth’s paintings are on display at the Brandywine Museum in southeast Pennsylvania. (Sept. 13, 2011) Credit: AP
A century after N.C. Wyeth's illustrations of the pirates and scalawags of "Treasure Island" first appeared, the iconic images considered the definitive version of the classic taleare reunited for the first time since their completion.
The Brandywine Museum in southeast Pennsylvania has reassembled them in a new exhibit marking the 100th anniversary of Wyeth's "Treasure Island" and the 40th anniversary of the museum, not far from an old carriage house where Wyeth created the 17 large oils on canvas for publishing house Charles Scribner's Sons. The only painting not in the exhibit was destroyed in a fire in 1952.
Visitors to the exhibit can see how Disney animators interpreted Wyeth's style for 1950s "Treasure Island," as well as the futuristic "Treasure Planet" from 2002.
Admission to the exhibit, which is on display through Nov. 20, is $10 ($6 ages 6-12) and free 9:30 a.m.-noon on Sundays; www.brandywinemuseum.org.
