A treat for art lovers, the Delaware Art Museum is housed in a splendid 85,000-square-foot building. The lighted roofline changes colors according to the celestial calendar, and Dale Chihuly's Persian Window installation draws attention to the entrance. The museum's holdings include a good collection of paintings by Howard Pyle (1853–1911), a Wilmington native known as the "father of American...
The Delaware Art Museum, home of 12,000 works of art, is best known for its dazzling collection of pre-Raphaelite art. The entrance, overlooking the sculpture garden, is crowned with a colorful Dale Chihuly glass sculpture. First-floor galleries are devoted to the pre-Raphael works, local artist Howard Pyle and his fellow illustrators of the Brandywine school, and John Sloan and early-American...