Books + Essays Highlighting Painter's Folly

The story of Painter’s Folly lives on not only in its physical presence but in the books and essays that document its significance. These writings underscore the site’s enduring impact and help make the case for its preservation.

Books

• Around Chadds Ford (2005) by Karen Furst

• Artists of Wyeth County: Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, and Andrew Wyeth (2021) by W. Barksdale Maynard

• Andrew Wyeth, A Secret Life (1998) by Richard Meryman

• Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death (2022) by Karen Baumgartner, Rachael Z. DeLue, Alexander Nemerov

• Bertha Corson Day Bates: Illustrator in the Howard Pyle Tradition (1978) by Elizabeth H. Hawkes

• Beyond the Marriage Bed: My Years as Friend, Model, and Confidante of Andrew Wyeth (2021) by Helen Murray Sipala and Bruce E. Mowday

• Buttercups & Gratitude: My Illustrated Journey with Andrew Wyeth (2023) by Helen Murray Sipala and Bruce E. Mowday

• Drexel Institute of Technology: 1891-1941: A Memorial History (1942) by Edward McDonald and Edward Hinton

• Howard Pyle: A Chronicle (1925) by Charles D. Abbott

• Howard Pyle: Imagining an American School of Art (2011) by Jill and Robert May

• N.C. Wyeth: A Biography (2003) by David Michaelis

• Our Pennsylvania: Keys to the Keystone State (1950) by Amy Oakley

• The American Historical Scene, as Depicted by Stanley Arthurs and Interpreted by Fifty Authors (1935) by the University of Pennsylvania Press

• The Wyeths: The Intimate Correspondence of N.C. Wyeth, 1901-1945 (1971) by Newell Convers Wyeth and Betsy James Wyeth

Essays/Journals

• “Howard Pyle, Teacher of Illustration” (1966) by Richard Wayne Lykes

• "The House that Haunts"(2025) by Clara Musheghyan

Misc. Publications

• Andrew Wyeth: Home Places by the Brandywine Museum of Art

• Howard Pyle blog by Ian Schoenherr

• Howard Pyle: His Art and Personality (1951) by Thornton Oakley (Delaware Art Museum archive)

• Memories of Howard Pyle by Anna M. Hoopes (Delaware Art Museum archive)

• The Brandywine Story, 1777-1952 by The Brandywine Battlefield Park Commission

• N.C. Wyeth and the Brandywine Tradition: Exhibition, October 13-November 28, 1945, by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

• Wyeth's World: Exploring Chadds Ford through Art (2020) by Cissy Ming

Video!

• A Tour of Painter's Folly, Chadds Ford, PA by Oasthouse Creative