This year we are delighted to host Philadelphia-based artist Martha McDonald as our 2023 WEM Artist-in-Residence. Beginning last winter, Martha

One Object, Many Stories: Esherick’s Music Stand is currently on view in the Visitor Center. This installation offers a deep

Storytelling was an integral part of Esherick’s humor and personality so, naturally, stories found their way into his furniture, sculpture,

My name is Erin Palmer and I worked as the Archives Fellow at the Wharton Esherick Museum in the fall

View of Esherick's Studio bedroom during WEM's 2022 exhibition Home as Stage. On the bed: Into Me See (Wharton

On September 15, 2022, the Wharton Esherick Museum opened the third and final temporary installation of our 50th anniversary year

Wharton Esherick didn’t like it when people came to his Studio wearing sunglasses. He wanted to see their whole expressions.

On September 15, 2022, the Wharton Esherick Museum opened the third and final temporary installation of our 50th anniversary year

  The first meeting of the Board of Directors of the Wharton Esherick Museum took place over the wintry weekend

WEM staff and volunteers taking a tour of Rose Valley Museum at Thunderbird Lodge We were excited to

Coat peg that Esherick carved of himself, Oak, 1926, Wharton Esherick Museum Collection. Wharton Esherick’s Studio wall

Photograph from Esherick family photo albums of Wharton and Letty under the grape arbor at Sunekrest. Date unknown, likely 1915-1916.

What Esherick was Reading: Architecture Wharton Esherick was a voracious reader with both professional and personal connections to the literary

Wharton Esherick outside the Studio, 1961. From the 1920s through the 1960s, Wharton Esherick created a small compound