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Exhibit Opening: Cropsey, Wyeth, and the American Landscape Tradition
October 4 @ 9:00 am - October 12 @ 4:00 pm
$20
Opening Week!
Exhibit continues through May 31, 2026
Open Wednesday–Monday, 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Closed Tuesdays
The Brandywine will premiere the first ever museum display of a monumental, rediscovered masterwork by the leading Hudson River School artist Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823–1900).
A stunning example of Gilded Age patronage, Autumn in the Ramapo Valley, Erie Railway of 1873, has been in private British collections since it was commissioned the same year by Irish-American railroad magnate James McHenry. This major canvas changes our understanding of Jasper Francis Cropsey, one of the iconic talents of American art. Almost seven feet in length, Autumn in the Ramapo Valley, Erie Railway is both a celebration of the American landscape and American industry. The train passing through the valley is a reference to the Erie Railroad, in which McHenry had recently acquired a majority stake. Just after it was completed, McHenry had the painting shipped to England where it remained until purchased in 2025 by the The J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Foundation for American Art. Seen by the public for the first time since 1873, the painting will be at the heart of a special exhibition, Cropsey, Wyeth, and the American Landscape Tradition, which draws on the rich and varied holdings of the Brandywine Museum of Art and the Wyeth Foundation for American Art to provide a focused appraisal of the complex art of American landscape painting.
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