American · b. 1943
James H. Duff is an American museum director and curator who spent nearly four decades shaping how the public sees the Wyeth family of painters. He became the first full-time director of the newly founded Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, in 1973, and three years later took on leadership of its parent organization, the Brandywine Conservancy, guiding both until his retirement at the end of 2011. Under his direction the museum's holdings grew to more than 3,500 works and the Conservancy's land trust preserved over 43,000 acres of the Brandywine Valley watershed. Duff organized and wrote or edited numerous exhibition catalogs built around the museum's core subject -- three generations of the Wyeth family, N.C., Andrew, and Jamie -- including 'An American Vision: Three Generations of Wyeth Art' (1987), assembled for a touring exhibition that drew record crowds. He continues to hold the title Executive Director Emeritus of the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art.