The Wharton Esherick Museum celebrates and preserves the legacy of American artist Wharton Esherick, who worked primarily in wood to create furniture, furnishings, utensils, interiors, buildings and more.

Thursdays through Sundays, we offer the Experiencing Esherick Tour, a journey through the Esherick Studio—a hand-crafted building filled with Esherick’s art and personal objects, which is itself an inhabitable artwork.

Experience Esherick’s singular creative vision on a guided immersion through his iconic Studio. For over forty years, Esherick built, sculpted, painted, and furnished his hillside studio-home into a joyful expression of art in everyday life.

Wharton Esherick (1887 – 1970) was an internationally significant figure in the landscape of art history and American modern design. As a sculptor, Esherick worked primarily in wood and extended his unique forms to furniture, furnishings, interiors, buildings, and more.

In 2017, the Wharton Esherick Museum team began the process of thinking about how this extraordinary site – and what we’re able to offer through making the buildings on our campus increasingly connected and accessible to the public – could best serve the needs of new and future audiences.

Esherick considered his hillside home and studio, now the Wharton Esherick Museum (WEM), the best representation of his iconoclastic vision, calling it “an autobiography in three dimensions.” Built between 1926 and 1966, his unconventional escape on the verdant slopes of Valley Forge Mountain houses almost 3000 iconic works of art from ...

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Museum Location: 1520 Horseshoe Trail, Malvern, PA 19355. Mailing Address: P.O. Box 595, Paoli, PA 19301-0595. Call: (610) 644-5822

The Wharton Esherick Museum’s permanent collection numbers nearly 3,000 objects and documents the expanse of Esherick’s life and work. The collection includes not only works of art like furniture, sculpture, or prints, but also the buildings on the Museum’s campus and Esherick’s personal belongings, such as his library, clothing, art ...

The Esherick and Architecture tour interprets three buildings on the Museum campus. Visitors will have the chance to explore the iconic Esherick Studio (1926-66) inside and out, and view Esherick’s log cabin Garage (1928), now the Museum Visitor Center.