About the museum
The story of the Delaware Art Museum
The Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington was founded in 1912 to honour the illustrator Howard Pyle. It is known for American illustration and art.
It also holds the largest collection of Pre-Raphaelite art outside the United Kingdom, built on the collection of Samuel Bancroft Jr.
The collection
The museum began with the work of the illustrator Howard Pyle, and holds the largest collection of the Brandywine School of American illustration, with N. C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish.
Samuel Bancroft Jr.'s Pre-Raphaelite collection, given in 1935, includes Rossetti's Lady Lilith, Burne-Jones and Millais, and the museum also shows John Sloan and American Realism.
At ArtLogia you can order 13 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 4 artists led by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Marie Spartali Stillman and Frederick Sandys.
- paintings to order
- 13
- artists
- 4
- art movement
- 1
- years covered
- 1848–1885
The building
The museum's building in a wooded park in Wilmington opened in 1938 and was expanded in 2005. Its nine-acre sculpture garden opened in 2010.
Masterpieces to see
Planning a visit
Finish with a walk through the museum's sculpture garden.
