
Father and son Karl Kuerner Jr., left, and Karl J. Kuerner III, provide commentary during a slide show presentation regarding the Kuerner Farm, Andy Wyeth and art. The younger Kuerner said his painting of his father entitled “Unloading Straw” is “the ultimate portrait of my father.”
The names Wyeth and Kuerner are deeply rooted in Chadds Ford culture. Indeed, artist Andrew Wyeth used the Kuerner Farm as a backdrop, and its owners as models, in numerous paintings. The farm represents a family legacy, and when Karl Kuerner Jr. — the son of the man Wyeth befriended in the early part of the 20th century — donated the family farm to the Brandywine ...