Bruce Presents: Slow Looking: The Visionary Botany of Andrew Wyeth

In conjunction with the Bruce exhibition Every Leaf & Twig: Andrew Wyeth’s Botanical Imagination, curator William L. Coleman will share an insider perspective on an underrecognized aspect of the work of a widely loved artist. Wyeth’s place-based practice in the immediate environs of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and Port Clyde, Maine included a fascinating array of watercolors and drawings devoted to individual specimens of plant life that he responded to freely across the seasons. In conjunction with the artist’s surviving painting materials and correspondence and in dialogue with the dramatic changes Wyeth's country has faced in recent years, these remarkable creations speak to a model of sensitive engagement with the natural world that could not be timelier.

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