\u201cBy Design\u201d 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\u2019s access to Brinton\u2019s Mill, The Farnsworth and Colby museums offer patrons a rare chance to visit the Wyeth\u2019s Maine homes, where the couple\u2019s creative partnership thrived.<\/p>\n
The Farnsworth Museum offers access to the Olson House, famous as the site of Andrew\u2019s painting \u201cChristina\u2019s World.\u201d During the run of the exhibition, Colby College is offering excursions to Allen and Benner Islands, which Betsy also transformed.<\/p>\n
For a June 2009 article in Architectural Digest, novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux visited Betsy at Allen and Benner to watch her work.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe moves quickly, taking long strides, and at the age of 81 is an occasional but enthusiastic smoker,\u201d Theroux wrote. \u201cIn a joshing, slightly headmistress manner she gives brisk, precise orders.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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