This summer we are excited to host WEM's 30th Annual Juried Woodworking Exhibition, Rhythms. This exhibition takes as its inspiration the expansive

In music, a “berceuse” is a lullaby, a composition with a rocking accompaniment and a soothing refrain. Wharton Esherick’s Berceuse (1923) is

Wharton Esherick’s work was well-traveled in his day. Selections of the artist’s work often went to New York venues like the Whitney,

  This spring we opened our doors with Movement is Life, an exhibition exploring the influence of modernist dance communities on Esherick’s

    In the biography Wharton Esherick: The Journey of a Creative Mind, Mansfield Bascom notes that Esherick was introduced to the

In 1935, Wharton Esherick began work on his largest commission, the Curtis Bok house. Approached initially by Curtis Bok to build bookshelves,

Today, we can digitally manipulate the size of an image with the simple click and drag of our computer mouse or trackpad.

In Nat Rubinson’s words, “Artists can be the loneliest people in the world – sitting there with a blank canvas in front

  October is National American Archives Month! To celebrate, we are highlighting the Wharton Esherick Museum's rich archival collections. These include the

If you know one thing about Wharton Esherick, you know he worked with wood. At the Museum, we know Wharton quite well