A Teacher Appreciation Post This month’s blog post was written by Visitor Engagement Manager, Maria Franey, who began volunteering with the Wharton

"Peter Esherick," Photo by Marjorie Content, circa 1934. In the summer of 1937, at the age of eleven, Wharton Esherick’s

Photo by Paul Godwin   Last December we received the sad news that the internationally celebrated craft and textile icon

Noticing, #1235, 2013, Roberta Massuch. Porcelain, concrete, handmade flax paper, 15' x 26 x 8". We often hear from those

With a snowy wonderland outside the Studio doors, we’re reminded of Esherick’s winter woodcut scenes and the artistic freedom he found through

  To Wharton Esherick, the Studio was an autobiography. If you wanted to know him, you had only to come to the

It is with deep sadness we share the news that Mansfield Bascom, Co-Founder of the Wharton Esherick Museum, passed away on Monday,

Solid wood -- and sometimes curving -- bookshelves line the walls of Wharton's bedroom.   This month we are delighted

Left: Library Ladder, Wharton Esherick, 1969, walnut. Photo by Eoin O'Neill. Right: Doris, Wharton Esherick, 1920, plaster. In the publication

Installation view of Esherick's 1958-1959 retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts. Featured in the image are Darling (1940); white oak;