“By Design” is a three-part exhibition, at the Brandywine Museum, the Farnworth Museum in Rockland, Maine, and Colby College of Waterville, Maine. Each museum features paintings depicting the other locations and, like the Brandywine’s access to Brinton’s Mill, The Farnsworth and Colby museums offer patrons a rare chance to visit the Wyeth’s Maine homes, where the couple’s creative partnership thrived.

The Farnsworth Museum offers access to the Olson House, famous as the site of Andrew’s painting “Christina’s World.” During the run of the exhibition, Colby College is offering excursions to Allen and Benner Islands, which Betsy also transformed.

For a June 2009 article in Architectural Digest, novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux visited Betsy at Allen and Benner to watch her work.

“She moves quickly, taking long strides, and at the age of 81 is an occasional but enthusiastic smoker,” Theroux wrote. “In a joshing, slightly headmistress manner she gives brisk, precise orders.”