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A Frenchman as an American hero

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Bringing in the colors.

It’s said that when American soldiers arrived in France in 1917 to fight in WWI, the catchphrase from them was “Lafayette, we are here.” Whether apocryphal or not, the phrase was used to connote a debt owed by and respect from the United States to France in general, and to the Marquis de Lafayette specifically. Lafayette came to the American colonies to help fight for…

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Brandywine Art Guide: Unseen Wyeth works on display

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For those that think they know everything about Andrew Wyeth, the Brandywine Museum of Art has a message for you: You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Drawing from the nearly 7,000-object Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Collection of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, Abstract Flash: Unseen Andrew Wyeth, the new exhibition that opened July 29, puts 37 never-before-seen abstract watercolors by the artist on view for…

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