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Exhibition Labels

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Below is a list of the exhibitions held at the museum from 1876 through 2019. From 1974, descriptions of the exhibitions have been included, when available.

Exhibition Catalogues

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List of Exhibitions

Year	Title	Dates	Department
1876	The Centennial Exhibition; or “International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures and Products of the Soil and Mine”	1876
1877	Gems, Cameos in Relief, and Other Engraved Stones, Ambers, Antique Pastes, Rings, etc	1877
1877	Gold Silver and Brass Work	1877
1879	Collection of Coins and Medals	1879
1883	Loan exhibition of Arms and Armor	1883	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1888	Exhibition of American Pottery and Porcelain	1888	American Art
1889	Exhibition of American Art Industry of 1889	1889
1903	Pompeian Ruins, Restorations, and Scenes	1903
1904	The Great Seals of England and Some Others	September 1, 1904–	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1905	Art Association of the Union League Exhibition	November 1, 1905–
1908	Some Rare Eastern Carpets from the J. Lees William Collection of Oriental Carpets	January 1908–April 1908	East Asian Art
1908	Capo di Monte Porcelain (Hard Paste Porcelain)	January 1908–
1908	Textiles: Mrs. William D. Frishmuth Collection of Colonial Relics	January 1908–	Costume and Textiles
1908	Mexican Antiquities	January 1908–
1908	Antique Watches: Bloomfield Moore Collection and Fleisher Collection	April 1908–	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1908	Hammered Sheet Iron Figures in the Collection of Japanese Metal-Work	April 1908–	East Asian Art
1908	Textile Room Reinstalled	April 1908–	Costume and Textiles
1908	The Lamborn Collection of Roman Glass Fragments	April 1908–
1908	Peruvian Figure Work in Lead, Three Examples	April 1908–
1908	Maiolica Tiles of Mexico	July 1908–	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1910	New Installation of Furniture Collection	October 25, 1910–
1911	The Gardiner Collection of Antique Oriental Rugs	1911	East Asian Art
1915	Exhibition of Tiles	October 1915–
1915	Loan Exhibition of Tapestries	October 25, 1915–November 7, 1915	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1916	Americanization through Art	January 19, 1916–February 22, 1916	American Art
1916	Exhibition of “Fakes” and Reproductions	April 1, 1916–
1916	Exhibition of American and English Furniture of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Early Nineteenth Centuries	November 1916–December, 1916
1917	Exhibition of Old American and English Silver	May 1917
1919	Loan Exhibition of Carpets and Other Textiles from Asia Minor	1919	East Asian Art
1920	Temporary Exhibition of a Selection of Italian Paintings of the XIV and XVI Centuries from the John G. Johnson Collection	1920	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1920	The Building of a Temple: A Pageant	April 19–23, 1920
1921	Pilgrim Show	1921
1921	Loan Exhibition of Colonial Silver	June 1921
1922	Exhibition of American Handicrafts Assembled and Circulated by the American Federation of Arts	December 5–25, 1922	American Art
1923	Paintings and Drawings of Persia and India (With Some Others), Illuminated Manuscripts in Persian, Arabic, Ethiopic, Sanscrit [sic], Armenian, Hindi, Burmese…	1923
1923	Graphic Art of Czechoslovakia: Exhibition of Prints from the Private Collection of Henry J. John	April 9–13, 1923	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1923	Early Printed Books	September 1923
1923	The Napoleonic Table Service by Irene Sargent	September 15–30, 1923
1923	Philadelphia Etchers and Engravers	October 1–22, 1923	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1923	The Crofts Collection: An Exhibition of Chinese Pottery	October 15, 1923–	East Asian Art
1923	Philadelphia Illustrators	November 1–26, 1923	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1923	Early English Prints	December 3–31, 1923	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1924	Bookplates	January 7, 1924–	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1924	Exhibitions of Daguerreotypes	February 1, 1924–March 1, 1924	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1924	Persian Miniatures	February 1, 1924–April 1924	East Asian Art
1924	Nineteenth Century Etchings and Engravings	March 1924	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1924	Print Room Exhibition: American Drawings	April 1, 1924–	Drawings, and Photographs
1924	Exhibition of Furniture of the Chippendale Style	April 28, 1924–September 24, 1924	American Art
1924	Exhibition of Etchings and Engravings by Old Masters from the Collection of Dr. Charles B. Penrose	October 1, 1924–November 10, 1924	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1924	New Installation of Stained Glass	October 1, 1924–
1924	Exhibition of Chinese Paintings, Sculpture and Antiquities	October 20, 1924–	East Asian Art
1924	Philadelphia Illustrators	November 1–30, 1924	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1924	Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Chrysanthemum Exhibition	November 7–9, 1924
1924	Retrospective Exhibition of Illustrations by Philadelphia Artists	November 12, 1924–January 1, 1925	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1925	Exhibition of Prints by Contemporary Dutch Artist	January 12, 1925–March 7, 1925	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1925	Embroideries, Velvets, Damasks, Satins, and Other Silk Fabrics (15th to the 18th century)	March 1925–	Costume and Textiles
1925	Modern Textiles: Textiles and Designs in the American Federation of Arts Exhibition	March 1925–	Costume and Textiles
1925	Exhibition of Illuminations, a collection of illuminations by members of the Society of Scribes and Illuminators of England	March 3, 1925–	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1925	French Chintzes of the 18th and 19th Centuries	April 1, 1925–	Costume and Textiles
1925	Inaugural exhibition of a circulating gallery of pictures	April 20, 1925–May 31, 1925
1925	Colonial Craftsmen of Philadelphia	July 1925–	American Art
1925	Mestrovic Exhibition	October 1, 1925–
1925	Hungarian Prints	November 1, 1925–December 1, 1925	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1925	Loan Exhibition of Windsor Chairs from the Collection of J. Stogdell Stokes, and Pennsylvania German Chests from the Collection of Clarence Wilson Brazer	November 10, 1925–December 18, 1925	American Art
1926	John D. McIlhenny Memorial Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture, Rugs, Textiles, and Furniture	March 2, 1926–April 10, 1926	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1926	Recent Accessions in the Field of Chinese Art	April 7, 1926–	East Asian Art
1926	Loan Exhibition of Works by William Blake (from the collection of Mr A. Edward Newton)	April 17, 1926–May 16, 1926	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1926	Cassatt Show	April 30, 1926–May 29, 1926
1926	Loan Exhibition of Paintings from the Lea Collection	May 15, 1926–October 6, 1926
1926	Exhibition of Designs by Gordon Craig, English designer of theatrical scenery and costume	May 17, 1926–
1926	American Furniture from the Collection of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan	June 1926–
1926	Sartain Exhibition (from the collection of Miss Harriet Sartain	June 2, 1926–October 6, 1926
1926	Development of American Art	June 8, 1926–	American Art
1926	Mount Pleasant Open to Public: American Art on the Eve of the Revolution	July 1, 1926–November 1, 1926	American Art
1926	Exhibition of Works of Engraved Ornament of 18th Century England from the Collection of Howard Reifsnyder	July 1, 1926–November 1, 1926
1926	Industrial Exposition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts	October 1, 1926–October 31, 1926
1926	Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late Joseph Pennell	October 1, 1926–October 31, 1926
1926	Loan Exhibition of Persian Art from the 9th to the 18th Century	October 11, 1926–January 1, 1927	Indian and Himalayan Art
1926	Exhibition of Contemporary European Industrial Arts from the Industrial Arts from the International Exposition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, held in Paris summer 1925	November 15, 1926–December 13, 1926	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1926	Etchings by John Wright	November 23, 1926–Christmas 1926	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1927	American, English, and European Pewter	1927–
1927	William L. Elkins and George W. Elkins Collections at Memorial Hall (Sesqui-Centennial)	1927–
1927	Loan Collection of Paintings from Flemish and Dutch Schools	1927–
1927	Early Italian Engravings and Woodcuts	January 28, 1927–April 1927	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1927	Exhibition of Tapestries	January 28, 1927–April 1, 1927	Costume and Textiles
1927	Portraits	April 1, 1927–
1927	Loan Exhibition of the Works of Robert Nanteuil and Other French Line Engravers of the 18th Century	April 4, 1927–October 1927
1927	Memorial Exhibition of the works of the late Mary Cassatt	April 30, 1927–May 30, 1927	American Art
1927	Silver Room Open to the Public after Reinstallation	May 1927
1927	Religious Art of Mexico from the 17th and 18th Centuries	Summer 1927
1927	Fine and Decorative Art of China from the 3rd Century B.C. to the Present	Summer 1927	East Asian Art
1927	European Etchers of the Last Half Century lent by Ellis Ames Ballard	Through June 26, 1927	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1927	Dutch Etchings by Marius Bauer	July 1, 1927–October 1, 1927	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1927	Exhibition of Northern Primitive Paintings	October 1, 1927–November 30, 1927	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1927	South Indian Sculpture of the Medieval Period	November 21, 1927–	Indian and Himalayan Art
1927	Exhibition of Laces from the Philadelphia Collections	November 21, 1927–	Costume and Textiles
1927	Engravings from the J. Drexel Collection	November 21, 1927–	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1927?	English Engraved Ornament of the Nineteenth Century
1927?	Engraved Maps of Asia
1927?	Exhibition of Painted Pennsylvania Chests from the Permanent Collection
1927?	French Engraved Portraits of the Eighteenth Century
1928	Cedar Grove Opens to the Public	After January 6, 1928	American Art
1928	Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries Collected by Thomas B. Clarke	February 28, 1928–	American Art
1928	Ten Period Rooms Open to the Public	Mid-March, 1928
1928	The New Museum of Art Inaugural Exhibition	March 26, 1928–
1928	Memorial Exhibition of the Collection of Far Easter Sculpture and Painting formed by the Late Charles H. Ludington	May, 1928
1928	International Exhibition of Ceramic Art	November 14, 1928–December 12, 1928
1928	Exhibition of Ecclesiastical Objects	December 1928–
1928	A hundred Prints of the Old Masters, 1450–1750: Inaugural Exhibition of the Charles M. Lea Collection of Prints	December 21, 1928–January 27, 1929
1928?	Engravings of the Early German School
1928?	Exhibition of Mexican Church Vestments and Ivories
1928?	Japanese Prints of the Henry LaBarre Jayne Memorial Collection
1928?	Exhibition of the Arts of Early India
1928?	German Little Masters
1928?	The Joseph Lees Williams Memorial Collection of Oriental Carpets and Rugs
1928?	Heinrich Aldegrever
1928?	Water Colors and Drawings of Contemporary French Artists
1929	American Paintings	January 1, 1929–	American Art
1929	Early German Woodcuts	February 1929–	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1929	Exhibition of English Clocks	March 1929–	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1929	James F. Ballard Collection of Oriental Carpets	March 1929–	East Asian Art
1929	Loan Exhibition of the Engravings of William Hogarth	Summer 1929–Fall, 1929	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1929	The Little Masters	June 1929–October 1929
1929	English Colour Prints by George Baxter	November 1–31, 1929	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1929	Selected Chinese Paintings from the Robinette Collection	November 15, 1929–December 5, 1929	East Asian Art
1929	Marcantonio and his School	December 1929	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1929	Exhibition of Contemporary Belgian Painting, Graphic Art, and Sculpture	December 11, 1929–January 12, 1930

Year	Title	Dates	Department	Additional Info
1930	Exhibition of Modern Engraving Processes and Methods	Through April 30, 1930	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1930	Mantegna and other Early Italian Masters	January 1930–February 1930
1930	Second International Exhibition of the American Federation of the Arts: Exhibition of Contemporary Glass and Rugs	January 31, 1930–February 27, 1930	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1930	The Processes of Engraving	March 1930–April 1930	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1930	Works by Thomas Eakins	March 5, 1930–April 7, 1930	American Art
1930	Later Italian Masters	May 1930
1930	American Paintings from the Collection of John F. Braun	May 2, 1930–September 1930	American Art
1930	The Foulc Collection	May 11, 1930–June 1, 1930
1930	Japanese Art from the Museum Collections, English Watercolors and Drawings, Watercolors by the Late Charles E. Dana	May 11–18, 1930
1930	De Gheyn and Goltzius from the Lea Collection	June 1930–September 1930
1930	British Watercolors	September 1, 1930–July 22, 1931	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1930	Dutch and Flemish Masters of the 16th and 17th Centuries	October 1930–November 1930
1930	Flemish Prints of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries from the Charles M. Lea Collection	November 1930–December 1930	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1930	Chinese Painting	November 15, 1930–December 5, 1930	East Asian Art
1930	Dutch Genre Etchers from the Lea Collection	December 1930–January 1931	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1930	Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection of Rembrandt Etchings	December 1, 1930–December 31, 1930	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1931	Early Woodcut Books lent by Boies Penrose	Through January 1, 1932	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1931	Philadelphia Chippendale Furniture	1931	American Art
1931	Philadelphia International Salon of Photography	1931–1932	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1931	French Portraits from the Lea Collection	January 1931–February 1931
1931	Georgian Art: An Exhibition of English and American Furniture and Glass of the Period of George III	January 8, 1931–February 26, 1931	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1931	Nanteuil from the Lea Collection	February 1931–March 1931
1931	Dutch Animal Etchers from the Lea Collection	March 1931–April 1931	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1931	The Art of the Middle Ages—Inaugural Exhibition	March 16, 1931–
1931	Guelph Treasure	March 16, 1931–
1931	Ploos van Amstel	April 1931–May 1931
1931	American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century	May 8–29, 1931	American Art, 69th Street Branch	SIX, box 2, folder 16
1931	Delaware County Public School Exhibit	May 30, 1931–June 8, 1931 (?)	69th Street Branch	SIX, box 2, folder 21
1931	French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists loaned by Mr. Davis	June 9–24, 1931	69th Street Branch	SIX, box 2, folder 17
1931	Exhibition of Metal Work: Medieval and Early Renaissance Metal Work	June 25, 1931–July 29, 1931	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture, 69th Street Branch
1931	Paintings by Baum, Ranken, Carles, Sherwood, Tieme, Gruppe, Johnson, Eashington, Cochran, from McClees Galleries	July 30, 1931–September 7, 1931	69th Street Branch
1931	America of the Early Republic, 1776–1830: Furniture and Furnishings	September 8, 1931–October 1, 1931	American Art, 69th Street Branch	SIX, box 2, folder 19
1931	Prints after the Old Master Ploos van Amstel	October 1931–	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1931	Oils and Water Colors in the Modern Idiom	October 1–21, 1931	69th Street Branch
1931	Chinese Art	October 22, 1931–November 17, 1931	East Asian Art, 69th Street Branch	SIX, box 2, folder 19
1931	Modern Etchings (included are works by Legros, Blampied, Davies, Sarrat, and Laurencin)	November 1931–	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1931	Paintings by Members of the Delaware County Artists’ Association	November 17, 1931–December 1, 1931	69th Street Branch
1931	Living Artists: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture	November 20, 1931–January 1, 1932	Modern and Contemporary Art
1931	Engraved portraits after Van Eyck from the Charles M. Lea Collection	December 1931	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1931	Japanese Color Prints from the Henry LaBarre Jayne Memorial Collection and from recent gift by Miss Elsie Biddle Robinson	December 1931–January 3, 1932	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1931	Powel Exhibition	December 1931–November 1932
1931	Religious Art of Gothic and Early Renaissance Periods (Religious Art of Gothic and Renaissance Europe from the Collection of the Pennsylvania Museum of Art)	December 1, 1931–January 2, 1932	69th Street Branch	SIX, box 3, folder 1
1931?	The Foulc Collection	December 20, 1931–January 1, 1932
1932	Chain of Colonial Houses, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia	1932	American Art
1932	Engravings by Lucas van Leyen from the Lea Collection	Summer 1932	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1932	The Sea	Summer 1932
1932	Indian Art of North and South America	January 4–25, 1932	69th Street Branch	SIX, box 3, folder 2
1932	Etchings of the 19th Century, lent by W. S. Pilling	January 5–31, 1932	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1932	The Willard H. Wheeler Collection of Antique Watches	January 9, 1932–February 8, 1932 (postponed)
1932	Paintings by Woodstock Artists	January 25, 1932–February 12, 1932	69th Street Branch	SIX, box 3, folder 3
1932	Engravings by Heinrick Aldegrever in the Lea Collection	February 1932	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1932	Loan Exhibition of Etchings from the Collection of William S. Pilling	February 1932	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1932	Oils and Murals by the Mexican Painter, Diego Rivera	February 3, 1932–March 1, 1932	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection 69th Street Branch	SIX, box 3, folder 4
1932	Design for the Machine: Contemporary Industrial Art	February 20, 1932–March 20, 1932	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1932	University Museum: Caribbean Archaeology	February 29, 1932–May 31, 1932
1932	Engravings and Woodcuts by Albrecht Durer in the Lea Collection	March 1932	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1932	Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts	March 1–24, 1932	69th Street Branch	SIX, box 3, folder 5
1932	Museum of Modern Art: Modern Architectural Exhibition	March 20, 1932–April 30, 1932	Modern and Contemporary Art
1932	First Philadelphia International Salon of Photography	March 24, 1932–April 11, 1932	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, 69th Street Branch
1932	The Little Masters in the Lea Collection	April 1932	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1932	Paintings and Sculpture by Swedish Women Artists	April 11, 1932–May 2, 1932	69th Street Branch	SIX, box 3, folder 6
1932	German Woodcuts from the Lea Collection (Other Early Engravings)	May 1932–	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1932	American Industrial Art	May 2–23, 1932	American Art	SIX, box 3, folder 6
1932	Children through the Centuries	May 7, 1932–June 8, 1932
1932	Delaware County School Exhibition	May 23, 1932–June 6, 1932 (?)	69th Street Branch	SIX, box 2, folder 21
1932	Contemporary American Painters	June 6–30, 1932	American Art 69th Street Branch	SIX, box 3, folder 8
1932	Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury Collection	June 15, 1932–December 1932
1932	Twelfth International Watercolor Exhibition	August 8–25, 1932	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, 69th Street Branch 69th Street Branch	SIX, box 3, folder 10
1932	Chinese Wood–Block Prints of the 17th and 18th Centuries	September 1932	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1932	Egyptian Art	September 19, 1932–October 6, 1932	69th Street Branch 69th Street Branch	SIX, box 3, folder 12
1932	Chicago Painters	October 6–16, 1932	69th Street Branch 69th Street Branch	SIX, box 3, folder 11
1932	Jean-Louis Forain from the Collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald	October 8, 1932–November 7, 1932
1932	Persian Art and Its Influences	November 19, 1932–December 31, 1932	Indian and Himalayan Art
1932	Some Living Pennsylvania Painters	December 17, 1932–January 12, 1933
1933	Victorian Art	January 7–30, 1933	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1933	Some Living Philadelphia Artists–The Younger Generation of Painters	January 21, 1933–February 15, 1933
1933	American Folk Art	February 4–27, 1933	American Art
1933	Print Makers of the Present	February 18, 1933–March 15, 1933	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1933	The Art of China	March 4–27, 1933	East Asian Art
1933	Watercolors by Philadelphia Artists	March 18, 1933–April 12, 1933	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1933	Flowers in Art	April 1, 1933–May 1, 1933	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1933	The Art of Portraiture (The Portrait in Pennsylvania)	April 15, 1933–May 17, 1933	American Art
1933	Second Philadelphia International Salon of Photography	May 6, 1933–June 26, 1933	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1933	International Exhibition of Sculpture	May 14, 1933–September 17, 1933
1933	Sculpture in the Open Air	May 14, 1933–September 16, 1933
1933	Modern Art from the Museum	May 20, 1933–October 25, 1933	Modern and Contemporary Art
1933	Prints by Albrecht Durer from the Boies Penrose Collection	June 24, 1933–October 11, 1933
1933	American Art from the Museum Collections	July 1, 1933–October 2, 1933	American Art
1933	Porcelain	October 7, 1933–November 20, 1933	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1933	Contemporary British Etchings from the William S. Pilling Collection	October 14, 1933–November 15, 1933	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1933	Contemporary Painting and Sculpture from the Collections of Anna Warren Ingersoll and Mr. and Mrs. R. Sturgis Ingersoll	November 4, 1933–December 6, 1933	Modern and Contemporary Art
1933	Five Centuries of Prints, from the Collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald	November 18, 1933–December 20, 1933	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1933	Manet and Renoir	November 29, 1933–January 1, 1934	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1933	Collection of Samuel S. White III	December 9, 1933–January 10, 1934	Modern and Contemporary Art
1933	Whistler, from the Collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald	December 23, 1933–January 24, 1934	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1934	Durer Prints: New Print Room at Fairmount	Summer 1934	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1934	Mexican Art	January 6, 1934–February 19, 1934	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1934	Contemporary Painting from the Maurice J. Speiser Collection	January 13, 1934–February 14, 1934	Modern and Contemporary Art
1934	Lucas van Leyden, from the Collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald	January 27, 1934–February 28, 1934	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1934	Earl Horter Collection	February 17, 1934–March 14, 1934	Modern and Contemporary Art
1934	Horses in Art	February 24, 1934–March 26, 1934
1934	Piranesi, from the Collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald	March 3, 1934–April 4, 1934	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1934	La France Art Institute–Bernard Davis Collection	March 17, 1934–April 18, 1934	Modern and Contemporary Art
1934	Blake from the Collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald	April 7, 1934–May 9, 1934	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1934	Prints from Lessing J. Rosenwald: Piranesi, Blake, van Leyden	April 7, 1934–May 9, 1934	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1934	Modern Drawings	April 21, 1934–May 23, 1934	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1934	Prints from the Charles M. Lea Collection	May 12, 1934–September 12, 1934
1934	French Engravings from the Charles M. Lea Collection	May 14, 1934–October 24, 1934	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1934	Miniature Exhibition	May 23, 1934–	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1934	Contemporary Painting in Philadelphia (Public Works of Art Project)	May 28, 1934–September 22, 1934
1934	Contemporary American Paintings	May 31, 1934–June 4, 1934	American Art
1934	Philadelphia Painters: Recent Accessions (Public Works of Art Project)	June 2, 1934–September 12, 1934	Modern and Contemporary Art
1934	The Art of Soviet Russia	June 9, 1934–September 17, 1934
1934	French Painting, 19th and 20th Centuries (Lea Collection of French Prints)	June 16, 1934–September 24, 1934	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1934	Exhibition of Prints	September 15, 1934	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1934	Still Life	September 29, 1934–November 5, 1934
1934	The Romanticists and the Realists: 1860	September 29, 1934–October 24, 1934	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1934	Impressionist Figure Painting at 1870	October 27, 1934–December 5, 1934	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1934	The Old Testament	October 27, 1934–November 28, 1934	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1934	Cezanne	November 3, 1934–December 10, 1934	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1934	Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist Landscape	November 10, 1934–December 10, 1934	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1934	The New Testament I: The Nativity	December 1, 1934–December 26, 1934	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1934	Impressionists and Neo-Impressionists of 1880	December 8, 1934–January 30, 1935	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1934	Russian Art	December 15, 1934–January 21, 1935
1934	The New Testament II: Christ’s Ministry	December 29, 1934–January 30, 1935	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1935	Works from the collections of the Museum	Summer 1935	Modern and Contemporary Art
1935	Adolphe Borie	January 26, 1935–March 4, 1935	American Art
1935	The New Testament III: Passion and Resurrection	February 2, 1935–March 6, 1935	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1935	The Post Impressionists of 1890	February 2, 1935–March 13, 1935	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1935	English Oak: Carving and Furniture	March 9, 1935–April 8, 1935	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1935	Etchings by Joseph Pannell: Collection of Ellis Ames Ballard	March 9, 1935–April 10, 1935	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1935	The Fauves: 1900	March 16, 1935–May 8, 1935	Modern and Contemporary Art
1935	Prints from the Collection of Staunton B. Peck	April 13, 1935–May 15, 1935	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1935	Great Philadelphia Furniture Makers	April 16, 1935–May 13, 1935	American Art
1935	Philadelphia on Parade (Commercial Museum)	May 1, 1935–
1935	Abstract Painting	May 11, 1935–June 19, 1935	Modern and Contemporary Art
1935	English Mezzotints — Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Thomson	May 18, 1935–June 19, 1935	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1935	Art of Japan: Prints from the Collection S. S. White III	May 26, 1935–September 23, 1935	East Asian Art
1935	American Painting	June 22, 1935–September 11, 1935	American Art
1935	Prints by Ploos Van Amstel from the Charles M. Lea Collection	June 22, 1935–September 18, 1935	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1935	Figure Painting	September 14, 1935–October 16, 1935	Modern and Contemporary Art
1935	Etchings by Charles Meryon and Anders Zorn from the William S. Pilling Collection	September 21, 1935–October 30, 1935	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1935	The Sea	October 5, 1935–November 8, 1935	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1935	Landscape	October 19, 1935–November 27, 1935	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1935	Prints by Wenzel Hollar from the Collection of Boies Penrose	November 2, 1935–December 11, 1935	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1935	The Nativity	November 23, 1935–January 7, 1936
1935	Etchings by F.L. Griggs from the William S. Pilling Collection	December 14, 1935–January 22, 1936	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1936	Vincent Van Gogh	January 15, 1936–February 10, 1936	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1936	Aeronautical Prints from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. William G. Gerhard	January 25, 1936–March 7, 1936
1936	English Glass from the Collection of George Horace Lorimer	February 15, 1936–March 23, 1936	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1936	Eleven Contemporary American Print Makers	March 12, 1936–April 22, 1936	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1936	Pottery–Its Technique and History	March 28, 1936–April 27, 1936	American Art
1936	Etchings of India from the William S. Pilling Collection	April 25, 1936–June 10, 1936	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1936	Winslow Homer–Centenary Exhibition	May 2, 1936–June 8, 1936	American Art
1936	Paintings from the Elkins Collections	June 13, 1936–September 28, 1936
1936	German Art	October 5, 1936–November 1, 1936	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1936	Degas	November 7, 1936–December 7, 1936	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1936	Cadwalader Artistic Heirlooms	November 14, 1936–
1936	American Art	December 12, 1936–January 18, 1937	American Art
1937	Surrealism: Art of the Marvelous	January 30, 1937–March 1, 1937	Modern and Contemporary Art
1937	William Rush	March 6, 1937–April 5, 1937	American Art
1937	French Art	March 20, 1937–April 18, 1937	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1937	Masters of Spanish Painting	April 10, 1937–May 10, 1937	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1937	Forms of Art Exhibition	April 29, 1937–May 24, 1937
1937	Chinese Art in the Philadelphia Collections	May 15, 1937–September 20, 1937	East Asian Art
1937	150th Anniversary of the Signing of the Constitution	May 28, 1937–August 9, 1937
1937	Portraits and Relics of Commodore John Barry (works from the Barry-Hayes Collection)	September 12, 1937–October 31, 1937
1937	Panoramas: French Scenic Wallpaper from the Carlhian Collection	October 2, 1937–October 31, 1937	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1937	Problems of Portraiture	October 16, 1937–November 28, 1937
1937	Daumier	November 6, 1937–December 12, 1937	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1937	Spanish Renaissance Room given by Mrs. Robert Thorne Patterson opens to the public	December 2, 1937–	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1937	Ship Pictures	December 18, 1937–January 16, 1938
1938	Federal Arts Project of Pennsylvania	January 22, 1938–February 27, 1938
1938	Benjamin West Bicentenary	March 5, 1938–April 10, 1938	American Art
1938	The Ballet	March 5, 1938–April 13, 1938
1938	Renoir: Later Phases	April 16, 1938–June 19, 1938	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1938	Flowers in the Museum	May 1938
1938	Swedish Art	May 28, 1938–July 4, 1938
1938	Swedish Tercentenary	June 29, 1938–July 14, 1938
1938	Gustavus Hesselius	June 29, 1938–July 17, 1938
1938	Chinese Painting	July 20, 1938–October 29, 1938
1938	Glass: The Lorimer Collection	November 12, 1938–
1939	Arts of the East	January 6, 1939–	East Asian Art
1939	Lines that Live	February 1, 1939–
1939	William Blake	February 10, 1939–March 20, 1939	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1939	Flemish Painting	March 25, 1939–April 26, 1939
1939	The Age of Louis XIV: Prints by Robert Nanteuil bequeated by Ellis Ames Ballard	April 1, 1939–May 1, 1939	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1939	Puppets Old and New	April 1, 1939–May 15, 1939
1939	Old English Watercolours	May 6, 1939–June 4, 1939	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1939	Chinese Art	July 25, 1939–November 15, 1939	East Asian Art
1939	New York World’s Fair Painting	November 1939–1940	Modern and Contemporary Art
1939	French Art — Past and Present	November 22, 1939–April 15, 1939
1939	The Rice Collection	December 16, 1939–

Year	Title	Dates	Department	Additional Info
1940	The Technical Show	1940
1940	French Silver of the Old Regime: The Helft Collection	February 1, 1940–March 15, 1940	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1940	Oriental Art	April 1940–	East Asian Art
1940	The Ballet: History, Art Practice	April 25, 1940–May 16, 1940
1940	Life in Philadelphia: An Exhibition in Conjunction with the Bicentennial Celebration of the University of Pennsylvania	May 1, 1940–September 22, 1940	American Art
1940	Sculpture International: Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture	May 18, 1940–October 1, 1940	American Art
1940	Lines that Live	June 1940–October 1940	Division of Education
1940	Self-Portraiture through the Ages	June 1940–October 1940	Division of Education
1940	Art and Life in the Middle Ages	October 1940–March 1941	Division of Education
1940	Art of Games	October 1940–March 1941	Division of Education
1940	Art of Weaving	October 1940–April 1941	Division of Education
1940	American Furniture and Decorative Arts (bequest of R. Wistar Harvey)	October 1, 1940–	American Art
1940	English and American Glass (the George H. Lorimer Collection)	November 1, 1940
1940	Gothic Woodwork given by Mr. and Mrs. Roland L. Taylor	December 1, 1940–	Print Galleries
1940?	Pennsylvania-German Art
1940?	Children at Work	September 1940–January 1941
1940?	Projects in Design, Record, Education
1940?	Dutch Masters
1940?	Durer Engravings
1940	Prints by S. Arlent Edwards
1940?	Hogarth Engravings
1941	Art Directors Club of Philadelphia	1941–1942
1941	Paintings from the W.P. Wilstach Collection	January 1, 1941–
1941	Selections from the Permanent Collection	January 12, 1941–February 28, 1941	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1941	Art in Advertising in Collaboration with the Art Directors Club	February 1, 1941–March 2, 1941
1941	Furniture from Moor Park by Robert Adam bequest of Alma V. Lorimer	March 15, 1941–
1941	The Walter P. Chrysler Jr. Collection–Contemporary and Primitive Art	March 29, 1941–May 11, 1941	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1941	Paintings of Asiatic Costumes	May 6–20, 1941	Costume and Textiles
1941	England before the War from the William S. Pilling Collection	May 24, 1941–June 24, 1941	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1941	Recent Accessions	May 24, 1941–June 24, 1941	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1941	Art and Collecting in the 19th Century	May 27, 1941–	Memorial Hall
1941	Victorian Installation	June 1941	Memorial Hall
1941	Chinese Bronzes from the Collection of Mrs. Christian R. Holmes	June 1, 1941–	East Asian Art
1941	Hand-woven Coverlets	June 1, 1941–March 1, 1942	Costume and Textiles
1941	Selections from the Permanent Collection	July 12, 1941–November 23, 1941	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1941	Opening of New Galleries of the John G. Johnson Collection	November 1, 1941	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1941	Russian Graphic Art, The Christian Brinton Collection	November 16, 1941–February 11, 1942	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1941	Christmas in Prints	December 6, 1941–January 3, 1942	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1941	Prints by Great French Painters	December 6, 1941–January 3, 1942	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1941	Pictures by Mexican Children	March 15, 1941–March 29, 1941		held in the Education Galleries
1941	Work of Children’s Classes	June 1, 1941–May 30, 1941		held in the Education Galleries
1942	Prints by Great French Painters of the 19th Century	January 6, 1942–February 8, 1942	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1942	Organic Design in Collaboration with Messrs. Gimble Brothers	January 10, 1942–February 16, 1942
1942	Prints by Great French Painters of the 20th Century	February 14, 1942–March 10, 1942	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1942	Art in Advertising in Collaboration with the Art Director´s Club of Philadelphia	February 28, 1942–March 29, 1942
1942	Cave Paintings of India lent by Sarkis Katchadourian	March 7, 1942–April 19, 1942	Indian and Himalayan Art
1942	Paintings of Asiatic Costumes lent by the Vicomtesse D’Aunale	March 14, 1942–May 15, 1942	Costume and Textiles
1942	Philadelphia Watercolor Club	March 21, 1942–April 16, 1942	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1942	Russian Arts	April 4, 1942–March 7, 1946
1942	Tapestries by Contemporary French Painters lent by Madame Marie Cuttoli	April 18, 1942–June 14, 1942	Costume and Textiles
1942	Silk Screen Prints by Contemporary American Artists	April 25, 1942–May 31, 1942	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1942	Near Eastern Art	June 6, 1942–	Indian and Himalayan Art
1942	Philadelphia Print Makers	June 6, 1942–September 13, 1942	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1942	Art in the United States: Paintings, Prints, and Crafts	June 20, 1942–September 12, 1942
1942	Early French Soft-Paste Porcelain (Collection of Mrs. Morris Hawkes)	June 20, 1942–	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1942	Chinese Prints	October 1942–Early 1943	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1942	The Art of Puppetry	November 15, 1942–
1942	Emblems of Unity and Freedom	November 26, 1942–December 24, 1942
1942	Design This Day	December 26, 1942–April 18, 1943
1942	Self-Portraiture through the Ages	December 26, 1942–
1942	Stoneware	December 29, 1942
1942	Wedgewood Medallions	December 29, 1942–	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1942	Paintings by Latin-American Children	January 10, 1942–February 16, 1942		held in the Education Galleries
1943	Prints of Artists at Work	January 6, 1943–February 14, 1943	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1943	Photography is an Art	January 13, 1943–May 31, 1943	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1943	Silver: English, American, and Continental	January 26, 1943–	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1943	Art in Advertising in Collaboration with the Art Director´s Club of Philadelphia	February 14, 1943–March 15, 1943
1943	French 18th Century Illustration: Collection of Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach	February 17, 1943–March 16, 1943	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1943	Mexican Art Today	March 27, 1943–May 10, 1943
1943	Modern Chinese Painting	April 9, 1943–June 2, 1943	East Asian Art
1943	Children of War	April 23, 1943–May 21, 1943
1943	English Pottery, 1750–1850	April 26, 1943–	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1943	Print Accessions	May 14, 1943–October 17, 1943	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1943	The A.E. Gallatin Collection: Inaugural Exhibition	May 14, 1943–November 3, 1943
1943	Ephrata Cloisters	June 1, 1943–September 10, 1943
1943	Brazil Builds	September 23, 1943–October 14, 1943
1943	Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection	October 10, 1943–
1943	Welcome to Wings: Army Air Corps Photographs and Models	October 16, 1943–November 30, 1943	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1943	Print Accessions of 1943	October 23, 1943–December 10, 1943	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1943	War Art: Paintings for Life Magazine	December 9, 1943–December 29, 1943	American Art
1944	American Impressionists	1944–1945	American Art
1944	Eakins Traveling Exhibition	1944–April 1950	American Art
1944	Photographs of Greece	January 1944–March 5, 1944
1944	Our Navy in Action	January 3, 1944–February 14, 1944	American Art
1944	The McIlhenny Collection: Rugs, Furniture, Paintings, Prints	January 8, 1944–March 26, 1944
1944	Wax Miniatures: Collection of Mrs. Edgar Munson	February 26, 1944–
1944	Navy Combat Artists	March 10, 1944–April 4, 1944
1944	Humorous Prints and Drawings	March 18, 1944–May 18, 1944	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1944	Thomas Eakins Centennial	April 8, 1944–May 14, 1944	American Art
1944	Art of the Comic Strip	April 15, 1944–May 14, 1944	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1944	Belgian Congo at War	April 24, 1944–June 15, 1944	Division of Education
1944	Advertising in War	May 27, 1944–June 25, 1944
1944	Art in Advertising	May 27, 1944–July 25, 1944
1944	Architectural Prints	June 1, 1944–	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1944	History of an American: Alfred Stieglitz, “291” and After	July 1, 1944–November 1, 1944	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1944	Stieglitz: Prints from His Collection	July 1, 1944–November 1, 1944
1944	American Counterpoint: Photographs by Alexander Alland	October 3, 1944–December 7, 1944	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1944	Anne Goldwaithe: & Prints Given by Mrs. Leiberman	November 1944–January 1945	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1944	Two Great Mexicans: Paintings by Velasco, Prints by Posada	November 11, 1944–December 10, 1944
1944	Looking at Latin America: Photographs from the Congressional Library	December 14, 1944–Feburary 4, 1945	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1944	Dutch Landscape Prints	December 20, 1944–February 11, 1945	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1944	17th Century Landscape Prints	December 20, 1944–February 20, 1945	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1945	Picasso-Leger: Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. Meric Callery	January 10, 1945–February 20, 1945	Modern and Contemporary Art
1945	America Explains Itself: History, Culture, and Art in Picture	February 8, 1945–April 8, 1945
1945	Modes and Manners: French Eighteenth Century Prints	February 21, 1945–April 8, 1945	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1945	Eight by Eight: Painting by Eight American Abstract Artists	March 7, 1945–April 1, 1945	American Art
1945	U.S. Railroads: Photographs Assembled in the Library of Congress	April 11, 1945–May 10, 1945	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1945	Prints–Recent Accessions	April 16, 1945–May 24, 1945	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1945	American Paintings–Recent Accessions	April 28, 1945–September 1945	American Art
1945	Wings Over the Pacific: The Army Air Force in Action	May 15, 1945–June 15, 1945
1945	Josiah Wedgewood: The Oster Collection	May 19, 1945–September 1945
1945	Picasso-Braque	May 26, 1945–November 1, 1945	Modern and Contemporary Art
1945	Architectural Prints	June 1, 1945–September 30, 1945	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1945	Mexican Paintings: Inaugural Showing of the Museum’s Permanent Collection	September 29, 1945–
1945	Artists of the Philadelphia Press: William Glackens, George Luks, Everett Shinn, John Sloan;	October 14, 1945–November 18, 1945	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1945	Artists Look Like This: Portrait Photographs by Arnold Newman	October 20, 1945–January 28, 1946	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1945	Color Prints and Color Printing: Original Works by Old and Modern Masters	November 27, 1945–January 1, 1946	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1945	The Barnard Collections: Sculpture and Crafts of the Middle Ages	December 18, 1945–
1946	Kaethe Kollwitz Memorial: Prints and Drawings, Collection of Erich Cohn	January 8, 1946–February 10, 1946	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1946	Architecture of New Orleans: Photographs by Clarence John Laughlin	February 2, 1946–March 10, 1946	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1946	Arthur B. Carles — Franklin C. Watkins: Paintings by Two Living Philadelphians	February 17, 1946–March 17, 1946	American Art
1946	Drawings by Philadelphia Artists	February 17, 1946–March 17, 1946	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1946	China Old and New: Photographs and Illustrative Original Works	March 9, 1946–May 26, 1946
1946	Penny Plain, Tuppence Colored: Popular Prints from the Charles G. Shaw Collection	March 27, 1946–May 1, 1946	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1946	Styles in Silver: Period Silver in Period Settings	April 13, 1946–May 19, 1946	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1946	Corot: Paintings Drawings and Prints	May 11, 1946–June 16, 1946	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1946	Popular Favorites: Paintings Selected from the Permanent Collection	July 1, 1946–October 20, 1946
1946	Print Accessions of the Year	July 4, 1946–October 6, 1946	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1946	Convention of Episcopal Bishops	September 1946
1946	Wanda Gag Memorial: Prints, Drawings, and Books	November 1946–November 24, 1946
1946	War’s Toll on Italian Art: Original works and Photographic Enlargements	December 1–22, 1946	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1946	Japanese Prints: Rockefeller, Archbold, Crozier, and Other Collections	December 4, 1946–February 9, 1947	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1947	Carroll Tyson—George Biddle: Paintings and Graphic Art	January 11, 1947–February 16, 1947
1947	Survey of Watercolor: East and West, Old and New	February 19, 1947–April 30, 1947	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1947	Wax Miniatures	March 1947
1947	Engravings by Nanteuil (Bequest of Ellis Ames Ballard)	March 1, 1947–May 15, 1947	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1947	Fine Arts under Fire: Photographic Survey of the Ordeal of Art in Europe	March 9, 1947–April 30, 1947
1947	Paintings in France, 1939–1946: Work of the War Years Selected by Leading French Authorities	March 29, 1947–April 27, 1947
1947	Troubled Waters: The Inner Life of a Girl Seen in her Paintings and Drawings	April 7, 1947–May 25, 1947
1947	Matisse: Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings, Prints	May 3, 1947–June 8, 1947
1947	Masters of the Philadelphia Private Collections: French and American Paintings, Drawings, and Prints	May 31, 1947–September 28, 1947
1947	Six to Sixteen: Work by Children in the Museum Classes	June 1947–May 1948
1947	Costume Prints	October 11, 1947–December 1, 1947
1947	A Pageant of Fashion	October 11, 1947–February 28, 1948	Costume and Textiles
1947	Houses, U.S.A.: History of American Domestic Architecture (Life Magazine)	November 1, 1947–January 31, 1948	American Art
1947	Folk Prints of France, Italy, and Spain from the Collection of Frank Osborn	December 15, 1947–January 25, 1948	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1948	French Posters of the 1890's	Late 1948–January 1949	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1948	The Mediaeval World: Religious and Secular Aspects (Life Magazine)	January 1, 1948–February 15, 1948
1948	Collectors’ Choice: Prints from 25 Philadelphia Collections	February 8, 1948–March 14, 1948	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1948	Matisse: Recognition, Patronage, Collecting (Henri Matisse: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, organized in collaboration with the Artist)	April 1, 1948–May 10, 1948	Modern and Contemporary Art
1948	150 Years of Lithography	May 1, 1948–September 1948	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1948	Stephen Girard’s Silver	May 13, 1948–September 28, 1948
1948	Permanent Collection of the Print Club of Philadelphia	May 24, 1948–September 1948	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1948	Paintings from Berlin Museums	June 19, 1948–July 7, 1948	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1948	Prints and Drawings by Sculptors	Summer 1948
1948	Catalogue	November 1948–
1948	Glass	November 13, 1948–December 5, 1948	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1948	Recent Accessions	November 17, 1948–December 31, 1948	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1949	Franklin Portraits	January 17, 1949–February 27, 1949	American Art
1949	Man and Machine in Graphic Art	February 14, 1949–	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1949	Folk Prints from the Collection of Mrs. Frank C. Osborn	February 26, 1949–May 6, 1949	American Art
1949	3rd Scupture International	May 14, 1949–October 11, 1949
1949	Henry P. McIlhenny Collection	May 15, 1949–September 11, 1949	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1949	Prints and Drawings by Sculptors	May 15, 1949–September 15, 1949	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1949	Rouault's Miserere	May 15, 1949–September 15, 1949	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1949	Stieglitz Photographs	July 1949–Summer 1949	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1949	Goethe as a Print Lover	September 20, 1949–November 13, 1949
1949	Faces and Fashions	October 15, 1949–November 1949	Costume and Textiles
1949	Ming Blue and White: An Exhibition of Blue-Decorated Porcelain of the Ming Dynasty	October 29, 1949–December 4, 1949
1949	Color Prints of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries	November 23, 1949–January 16, 1950	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs

Year	Title	Dates	Department
1950	Fashion Group	1950	Costume and Textiles
1950	Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel S. White, III: Paintings, Drawings, and Objects of Art	February 4, 1950–April 16, 1950
1950	Photographs of Medieval Indian Sculpture	March 10, 1950–September 15, 1950	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1950	Masterpieces of Philadelphia Private Collections, Part II	May 20, 1950–September 15, 1950	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1950	Society of Wood Engravers	June 1950–September 1950	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1950	Diamond Jubilee Exhibition: Masterpieces of Drawing	November 4, 1950–February 11, 1951
1950	Samuel H. Kress Collection	November 4, 1950
1950	Jewish Ceremonial Art	November 21, 1950–December 17, 1950
1951	The Staunton B. Peck Collection	March 9, 1951–May 12, 1951
1951	The Lisa Norris Elkins Collection	March 9, 1951–June 3, 1951
1951	Diamond Jubilee Accessions	March 9, 1951–June 3, 1951
1951	Prints and Drawings, Recent Accessions	May 28, 1951–September 16, 1951	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1951	Masterpieces of Philadelphia Private Collections, Part III: Decorative Arts	June 22, 1951–September 16, 1951
1951	Architecture of the City Plan	June 27, 1951–July 16, 1951
1951	Art Director’s Club: Advertising and Editorial Art	October 6, 1951–November 4, 1951
1951	Three Photographers: Photographs by Siegel, Van Vechten, and Wright	October 6, 1951–December 6, 1951	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1951	Costumes and Textiles of Asia	November 7, 1951–December 26, 1951	Costume and Textiles
1951	Victorian Costume: Fashion Group Opening	November 16, 1951–
1951	Fire and Water: Life of Fireman and Sailor from Prints and Models from the Collection of the Insurance Company of North America	December 1, 1951–January 20, 1952
1952	Gauguin Exhibition Correspondence	1952	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1952	Goya Exhibition Correspondence	1952	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1952	Greek Exhibition	1952
1952	Manet Exhibition Correspondence	1952	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1952	100 Masterpieces of the Print	February 2, 1952–March 23, 1952	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1952	Art Treasures from Vienna	February 9, 1952–March 30, 1952	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1952	Ars Medica: The Healing Art	April 5, 1952–May 25, 1952
1952	Leon Karp Memorial Exhibition	May 3, 1952–June 1, 1952
1952	Modern American Printmakers (A Decade of American Printmaking)	June 7, 1952–November 9, 1952	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1952	Parkway and Expressway: Views and Models, in cooperation with the City Planning Commission	June 15, 1952–August 31, 1952	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1952	Growth of an Artist: Claire Berwinger	July 29, 1952–
1952	American Weather Vanes: Collection of Handmacher and Vogel	September 12, 1952–October 22, 1952
1952	Work of Young People and Adults in Museum Art Classes	September 13, 1952–October 19, 1952
1952	Works of Distinguished Amateur Artists	October 7–21, 1952
1952	Sculpture of the Twentieth Century	October 11, 1952–December 7, 1952	Modern and Contemporary Art
1952	Graphic Art by Twentieth Century Sculptors	October 11, 1952–December 7, 1952	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1952	International Exhibition: Professional Art Schools	October 23, 1952–November 9, 1952
1952	Cultural Olympics Exhibition	October 24, 1952–November 9, 1952
1952	Work of Young People and Adults in Museum Art Classes	November 17, 1952–September 1953
1952	Themes and Variations	November 21, 1952–January 11, 1953	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1952	An Artist at Work: Ralston Crawford	December 20, 1952–January 25, 1953
1952	Contemporary French Prints	December 22, 1952–February 8. 1953	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1953	Artists Look Like This: Photographs by Arnold Newman	Through January 17, 1953	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1953	Self Portraiture through the Ages	To January 17, 1953
1953	The Materials of Sculpture	Through September 1953	Division of Education
1953	Toulouse-Lautrec Posters	Through September 1953	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1953	Homer—Eakins—Cassatt: Oils, Water Colors, Drawings, Prints	January 17, 1953–March 1, 1953	American Art
1953	Wanda Gag: Prints and Drawings, Recently Acquired	January 17, 1953–	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1953	Primer of Glass Design	January 31, 1953–March 15, 1953	Division of Education
1953	Art as Psychotherapy	January 31, 1953–February 22, 1953
1953	Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, and Vuillard: Lithographs and Posters	February 1953–June 1953	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1953	Kynett Collection of Philadelphia Views and Other Americana	February 24, 1953–April 5, 1953
1953	Art Teachers Association of Philadelphia	February 27, 1953–March 15, 1953
1953	Connelly & Haines, Cabinetmakers: Philadelphia Sheraton Furniture	March 20, 1953–April 19, 1953	American Art
1953	Art of Weaving	March 21, 1953–April 26, 1953	Division of Education
1953	Art in Your Neighborhood	March 21, 1953–April 26, 1953
1953	Two Spanish Printmakers: Goya and Picasso	April 15, 1953–May 31, 1953	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1953	Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Art: Collection of Titus C. Geesey	May 23, 1953–August 23, 1953	American Art
1953	Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions	June 15, 1953–September 1953	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1953	Before Columbus: Pre-Columbian Sculpture from the Arensberg Collection	October 3, 1953–December 5, 1953
1953	Art Treasures of Bavaria	October 3, 1953–November 22, 1953	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1953	Work by Philadelphia Artists	October 10, 1953–
1953	Ephrata Cloisters: Photographs by Luke Swank and Lithographs by Earle Miller	October 10, 1953–
1953	Whistler’s Prints after Fifty Years	October 20, 1953–November 29, 1953	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1954	"The Forbidden City": Chinese Nationalist Art Treasures	1954	East Asian Art
1954	Gallatin Collection	Fall 1954
1954	Italian Manuscript Show	1954
1954	Paintings and Drawings by Vincent Van Gogh	January 3, 1954–February 28, 1954	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1954	Work by Members of the Art Teachers Association of Philadelphia	March 5–28, 1954
1954	French Prints, Drawings, and Books of the 17th–18th Centuries	March 22, 1954–	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1954	Nanteuil	March 22, 1954–September 28, 1954	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1954	Japanese Kabuki Dancers	April 5, 1954–
1954	Work from Classes: Philadelphia Association of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers	April 1954–November 1954
1954	Rouault "Miserere"	October 2, 1954–	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1954	Painting and Sculpture by Instructors in Our Adult Classes	October 1954–November 1954
1954	Modern Prints by Artists of the Arensberg and Gallatin Collections	October 16, 1954–	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1954	Prints for Christmas	November 1954–December 1954
1955	Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers	January 7, 1955–January 23, 1955	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1955	Dali Jewels	January 15, 1955–February 13, 1955	Costume and Textiles
1955	Art Festival Exhibition: Paintings, Graphic Works, and Sculpture	February 26, 1955–March 27, 1955
1955	Art in Your Neighborhood: Third Annual Exhibition	April 1955
1955	Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Print Club of Philadelphia in Honor of its Fortieth Anniversary	April 14, 1955–May 28, 1955	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1955	French Paintings from the American Collections	April 20, 1955–July 3, 1955	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1955	English 18th Century Prints	April 22, 1955–September 28, 1955	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1955	Curt Valentin Memorial: Prints, Drawings, Sculpture Given and Bequeathed by Him to the Museum	April 23, 1955–June 1955
1955	Philadelphia Art Teachers Associations: Members Exhibition	April 25, 1955–May 13, 1955
1955	From Our Classes: Paintings and Sculpture by Young People and Adults in Museum Classes	May 20, 1955–Summer 1955
1955	Recent Accessions	June 22, 1955–September 4, 1955	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1955	Prints Pertaining to the Law	August 14, 1955–September 4, 1955	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1955	European Folk Prints from the Osborn Collection	September 14, 1955–October 9, 1955	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1955	Painting and Sculpture by Instructors in the Adult Classes	October 1955
1955	Toulouse-Lautrec	October 29, 1955–December 11, 1955	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1955	Paintings by British Children	November 1955
1955	Women Fashion Designers: Paintings and Drawing	November 18–20, 1955
1955	Exhibition and Sale of Prints for Christmas	mid-November 1955–December 1955	Division of Education
1956	Chrysler Collection Exhibitions	1956
1956	Paintings by Braque	January 1956–	Modern and Contemporary Art
1956	John Sloan Memorial: The Complete Graphic Work	January 4, 1956–March 11, 1956	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1956	250th Anniversary of the Birth of Benjamin Franklin	January 17, 1956–
1956	Brancusi Sculpture	January 27, 1956–February 26, 1956	Modern and Contemporary Art
1956	Sports in Art	February 15, 1956–March 10, 1956
1956	Women Printmakers, Past and Present	March 16, 1956–May 20, 1956	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1956	Family of Man: An Exhibition of Photographs Assembled by Edward Steichen	March 24, 1956–April 29, 1956	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1956	Philadelphia Silver	April 14, 1956–September 9, 1956	American Art
1956	Art in Your Neighborhood: Fourth Annual Exhibition	April 22, 1956–May 13, 1956
1956	Recent Accessions	June 1, 1956–September 16, 1956	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1956	Fashion Group Reception: Grace Kelly Wedding Gown	June 4, 1956–	Costume and Textiles
1956	Fuller Fabrics Exhibition	June 22, 1956–July 15, 1956	East Asian Art
1956	Fine Prints from Five Centuries	September 19, 1956–November 4, 1956	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1956	The Alfred and Margaret Caspary Memorial Gift of Chinese Porcelain	October 6, 1956–May 1957
1956	Great Prints 1440–1940: The Collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts	November 17, 1956–January 17, 1957	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1957	Exhibition of 19th Century Painting	Summer 1957
1957	Expressionists: Works from the Museum’s Collections	Summer 1957	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1957	Wintersteen, Tyson, and McIlhenny Collections	Summer 1957
1957	T. Edward Hanley Collection	February 8, 1957–April 28, 1957
1957	AIA's Centennial Exhibition	May 1957–July 1957
1957	Tucker China, 1825-1838: An Exhibition of Examples of The Porcelain Made in Philadelphia by William Ellis Tucker, Tucker and Hulme, Tucker and Hemphill, Joseph Hemphill, and Thomas Tucker	May 3, 1957–September 9, 1957
1957	Collection of Henry P. McIlhenny	June 15, 1957–September 15, 1957
1957	Collection of Maurice Wertheim	June 15, 1957–September 15, 1957
1957	Collection of Mrs. Carroll S. Tyson	June 15, 1957–September 30, 1957	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1957	Chinese and Japanese Prints	October 10, 1957–December 10, 1957	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1957	Fashion Group: Crystal Ball	October 23, 1957	Costume and Textiles
1958	Picasso 75th Anniversary Exhibition	January 9, 1958–February 23, 1958
1958	Picasso Ceramics	January 9, 1958–February 23, 1958; March 28, 1958–May 10, 1958	Modern and Contemporary Art
1958	Second Philadelphia Arts Festival Regional Exhibition	January 30, 1958–March 8, 1958
1958	Graphic Arts of the Southwest	March 8, 1958–April 6, 1958	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1958	Child Guidance Clinic, Rodin	April 11, 1958–May 18, 1958
1958	Masterpieces of Philadelphia Private Collections	April 11, 1958–May 18, 1958
1958	Maillol	April 15, 1958–May 15, 1958
1958	Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clifford	May 1958–Summer 1958
1958	Collection of Mrs. John Wintersteen	June 1958–
1958	Recent Accessions, Prints and Drawings	June 2, 1958–September 22, 1958	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1958	American Art from the Sonia and Michael Watter Collection lent by Dr. Michael Watter	June 13, 1958–October 5, 1958
1958	Synthetic Fibers	June 15, 1958–	Costume and Textiles
1958	19th-Century French Paintings from the Carroll S. Tyson Collection	June 17, 1958–September 25, 1958	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1958	Special Exhibition of Americana	October 1958
1958	Federal Arts Project: Twenty Years After	October 3, 1958–November 23, 1958	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1958	Second Crystal Ball	October 23, 1958–	Costume and Textiles
1958	Collection of Prints and Drawings by Charles Nicolas Cochin	December 5, 1958–January 5, 1959	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1959	Philadelphia Arts Festival Folder	January 23, 1959–February 15, 1959
1959	Second Philadelphia Arts Festival Regional Exhibition	January 30, 1959–March 8, 1959
1959	Recent Print Sequences	March 20, 1959–May 3, 1959	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1959	Ars Medica	April 28, 1959–May 10, 1959	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1959	Gleanings of a Traveler in the Orient	May 15, 1959–July 12, 1959	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1959	Summer Loan Exhibition of Masterpieces from Philadelphia Private Collections	June 1959–September 1959
1959	Collection of Henry P. McIlhenny	June 26, 1959–September 30, 1959	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1959	Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clifford	June 26, 1959–September 30, 1959
1959	Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. John Wintersteen	June 26, 1959–September 30, 1959
1959	Collection of Mrs. Carroll S. Tyson	July 15, 1959–September 19, 1959	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1959	Recent Accessions, Prints and Drawings	July 24, 1959–August 31, 1959	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1959	American Prints Today	September 15, 1959–October 25, 1959	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1959	Courbet’s Contemporaries in Prints and Drawings	November 17, 1959–February 22, 1960	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1959	Gustave Courbet	December 16, 1959–February 14, 1960	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection

Year	Title	Dates	Department
1960	Chapel of the Chauteau of Pagny	1960
1960	Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clifford	Summer 1960
1960	Sculpture at Penn Center / City Planning Commission	Summer 1960
1960	The World of Prints: 1960	March 2, 1960–May 31, 1960	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1960	Mary Cassatt	April 22, 1960–May 29, 1960	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1960	Korean Monuments of Architecture and Sculpture (color photographs)	May 18, 1960–June 18, 1960
1960	Carroll S. Tyson Collection	June 1960–September 19, 1960	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1960	Collection of Henry P. McIlhenny	June 1960–September 26, 1960	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1960	Collection of the Reverend and Mrs. Theodore Pitcairn	June 17, 1960–September 18, 1960
1960	Recent Accessions	June 17, 1960–August 28, 1960	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1960	Lithography: Senefelder to Picasso	September 8, 1960–October 30, 1960	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1960	Renaissance Prints: French and Italian	November 16, 1960–January 8, 1961	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1961	Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clifford	Summer 1961
1961	Collection of Mrs. John Wintersteen	Summer 1961
1961	Masterpieces of Oriental Art	Fall 1961
1961	Aspects of Winter	January 27, 1961–March 12, 1961	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1961	Rosenwaldiana: Prints and Books Given During 20 Years by Lessing J. Rosenwald	March 24, 1961–April 30, 1961	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1961	Ars Medica	May 12, 1961–June 11, 1961	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1961	Collection of Henry P. McIlhenny	May 29, 1961–September 25,1961
1961	Carroll S. Tyson Collection	June 5, 1961–September 27, 1961	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1961	Recent Accessions	June 23, 1961–September 3, 1961	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1961	Arthur Flory and his Lithograph Workshop in Japan	September 16, 1961–October 15, 1961	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1961	Fashion Wing: Third Crystal Ball	October 20, 1961–
1961	Guggenheim Museum Exhibition	November 1, 1961–January 7, 1962	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1962	Collection of S. S. White 3rd and Vera White	Summer 1962
1962	Thomas Eakins, A Retrospective Exhibition	February 1, 1962–March 18, 1962	American Art
1962	Eakins in Perspective	February 1, 1962–March 18, 1962	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1962	Mexico, Geyelin Tour	February 9, 1962–March 7, 1962
1962	Charleston in the Spring	March 1–4, 1962
1962	England and France Observe Each Other in Prints and Drawings	April 19, 1962–May 20, 1962
1962	The Shakers: Their Arts and Crafts	April 19, 1962–May 20, 1962	American Art
1962	Summer Loan Collections	June 1962–September 1962
1962	Third Philadelphia Arts Festival Exhibition	June 9, 1962–June 24, 1962	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1962	Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clifford	June 15, 1962–September 11, 1962
1962	Collection of Mr. and Mrs. William Coxe Wright	June 15, 1962–September 11, 1962
1962	Collection of Mrs. Carroll S. Tyson	June 15, 1962–September 11, 1962	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1962	Collection of Mrs. Herbert C. Morris	June 15, 1962–September 11, 1962
1962	Collection of Mrs. John Wintersteen	June 15, 1962–September 11, 1962
1962	20th Anniversary Print Club Permanent Collection	July 6, 1962–September 15, 1962	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1962	American Prints Today: 1962	September 20, 1962–October 15, 1962	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1962	Edward Hopper’s Complete Graphic Work	October 24, 1962–November 18, 1962	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1962	Christmas Cards You Cannot Buy	December 5, 1962–January 6, 1963	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1962	Leonard Baskin’s Drawings for Homer’s Iliad	December 15, 1962–January 15, 1963	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1963	Collection of Mrs. John Wintersteen	Summer 1963
1963	Graphik: German Prints at Mid-century	February 2, 1963–March 17, 1963	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1963	Fashion Wing: Fourth Crystal Ball	April 22, 1963–	Costume and Textiles
1963	A World of Flowers: Five Centuries of Flower Prints	May 1, 1963–June 9, 1963	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1963	Collection of Henry P. McIlhenny	May 13, 1963–September 19, 1963	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1963	Philadelphia Private Collections	June 1963–September 1963
1963	Collection of Mrs. Herbert C. Morris	June 27, 1963–September 1963
1963	Recent Accessions: 1963	June 27, 1963–September 15, 1963	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1963	Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Annenberg Collection	July 1, 1963–September 3, 1963	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1963	Philadelphia Collects Twentieth Century	October 3, 1963–November 17, 1963	Modern and Contemporary Art
1963	Sir Joshua Reynolds / Duke of Devonshire and the Trustees of the Chatsworth Settlement	October 11, 1963–November 21, 1963
1964	Asger Jorn’s Graphic Work	January 8, 1964–February 9, 1964	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1964	101 Masterpieces of Primitive Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch	January 16, 1964–February 16, 1964	American Art
1964	Two Centuries of Philadelphia Architectural Drawings	January 27, 1964–February 24, 1964
1964	Picasso in Japan	February 1964–May 1964
1964	Tamarind Lithographs	February 26, 1964–March 29, 1964	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1964	Franklin C. Watkins Retrospective Exhibition	March 4, 1964–April 5, 1964	American Art
1964	7000 Years of Iranian Art	April 1964–
1964	Eakins Gross Clinic	April 1964–September 1964
1964	Eighteenth Century Venetian Drawings from the Museo Correr	April 7, 1964–May 10, 1964	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1964	Nine Centuries of Chessmen	April 15, 1964–May 17, 1964
1964	A Regional Drawing Exhibition	April 17, 1964–
1964	Jacques Lipchitz	April 21, 1964–June 7, 1964	Modern and Contemporary Art
1964	Collection of Henry P. McIlhenny	May 11, 1964–October 13, 1964	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1964	Tuscany in the 19th Century: Macchiaoli Exhibition	May 20, 1964–June 14, 1964
1964	Mr. and Mrs. Carroll S. Tyson Jr. Collection	May 21, 1964–	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1964	Collection of Mrs. Herbert C. Morris	June 1964–September 24, 1964
1964	Youth Paints Cars–Germany, 1964	June 1–21, 1964
1964	Lunar Madness	June 1, 1964–July 15, 1964	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1964	Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clifford	July 1, 1964–September 13, 1964
1964	Collection of Mrs. John Wintersteen	July 1, 1964–September 13, 1964
1964	Michener Foundation Collection	July 1, 1964–September 21, 1964
1964	Arrangement in Gray and Black, No. 1	July 3, 1964–July 29, 1964
1964	New Dimensions in Printmaking	July 27, 1964–August 30, 1964	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1964	Philadelphia Discovered: Photographs by Joseph Nettis	September 21, 1964–October 18, 1964
1964	Carl Zigrosser: Curatorial Retrospective	September 21, 1964–November 1, 1964	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1964	Constantine the Great: The Tapestries, the Designs	October 1, 1964–November 1, 1964	Costume and Textiles
1964	Children’s Drawings from 70 Countries: “Art for World Friendship”	October 30, 1964–November 15, 1964
1964	The Louis E. Stern Collection	November 6, 1964–January 3, 1965	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1964	Instructors’ Exhibition	November 16, 1964–December 13, 1964
1964	Lithographs by Jean Dubuffet	November 19, 1964–January 10, 1965	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1964	Curator’s Choice	November 23, 1964–December 23, 1964
1965	Adult Students’ Exhibition	January 8, 1965–January 31, 1965
1965	Alfred Bendiner: Lithographs	January 21, 1965–March 4, 1965	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1965	Art USA: The S.C. Johnson and Son, Inc. Collection	February 5, 1965–March 7, 1965
1965	Recent London County Council Architecture Photographic Exhibition	February 26, 1965–March 14, 1965	Division of Education
1965	Fakes and Originals	March 18, 1965–March 21, 1965
1965	Eastern Regional Drawing Exhibitions	March 18, 1965–May 2, 1965	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1965	English 18th and 19th Century Paintings and Costumes	March 18, 1965–May 2, 1965
1965	Work from the Young People’s Classes	March 19, 1965–April 4, 1965
1965	Advanced Studio Art Classes	April 9, 1965–April 25, 1965
1965	19th to 20th Century European Drawings	April 28, 1965–
1965	Collection of Henry P. McIlhenny	May 3, 1965–October 7, 1965	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1965	Rosenwald Collection	May 3, 1965–October 7, 1965
1965	Children in Art: Paintings, Sculpture, and Prints Drawn from the Museum’s Collections	May 4, 1965–June 27, 1965
1965	Mr. and Mrs. R. Sturgis Ingersoll Collection	May 6, 1965–June 6, 1965
1965	Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collections	May 6, 1965–June 6, 1965	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1965	Collection of Mrs. Herbert C. Morris	May 13, 1965–September 22, 1965
1965	Recent Accessions: Prints and Drawings, 1963–1965	May 13, 1965–June 24, 1965	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1965	Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Louis C. Madeira	May 25, 1965–October 6, 1965	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1965	Collection of Mrs. John Wintersteen	June 1965–September 1965
1965	Collection of Mrs. Josiah Marvel	June 1965–September 9, 1965
1965	Artists of 1 Cent Life	July 1, 1965–August 31, 1965	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1965	Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clifford	July 1, 1965–September 23, 1965
1965	Anonymous Private Collection	July 5, 1965–August 15, 1965
1965	Epstein Exhibition	August 1965
1965	The Art of Philadelphia Medicine	September 15, 1965–December 10, 1965
1965	The Crystal Ball: Fashion Group of Philadelphia	October 1, 1965–	Costume and Textiles
1965	Art Israel	October 23, 1965–November 15, 1965
1965	The Animal in Contemporary Art: Samuel S. Fleischer Art Memorial	October 28, 1965–November 13, 1965
1965	Instructors’ Exhibition	November 19, 1965–December 12, 1965
1965	Marino Marini: Graphics and Related Works	December 3, 1965–January 16, 1966	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1965	The Romance of Paper Art	December 17, 1965–January 17, 1966	Division of Education
1966	Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Louis C. Madeira	Summer 1966	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1966	Future Exhibitions of Australian Artists	1966
1966	Philadelphia Photographers’ Exhibition	Spring 1966	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1966	Adult Students’ Exhibition	January 28, 1966–February 4, 1966
1966	Victorian Milwaukee Rediscovered: One Hundred Photographs of John McLaughlin	February 11, 1966–March 6, 1966	Division of Education
1966	Art Treasures from Japan	February 16, 1966–March 27, 1966
1966	Japanese Prints from the Permanent Collections	February 16, 1966–March 27, 1966	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1966	Work from the Young People’s Classes	March 12, 1966–April 3, 1966
1966	Piet Mondrian	April 2, 1966–May 9, 1966	Modern and Contemporary Art
1966	Three Graphic Artists: Feldman, Maitin, Mavignier	April 8, 1966–May 11, 1966	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1966	Advanced Students’ Exhibition	April 22, 1966–May 15, 1966
1966	Rodin Drawings and Watercolors Lent by the Mastbaum Family	April 28, 1966–September 8, 1966	Rodin Museum
1966	Rodin Photographs by Edward Steichen: Rodin Museum	April 28, 1966–September 8, 1966	Rodin Museum
1966	Threads of History: The Romance of Fibers in Decorative Textiles, 2500 B.C.–2000 A.D	May 20, 1966–June 19, 1966	Costume and Textiles
1966	The Bride in Fashion: Three Centuries of Weddings Gowns	May 20, 1966–June 30, 1966	Costume and Textiles
1966	Collection of Henry P. McIlhenny	May 23, 1966–September 30, 1966	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1966	Prints and Drawings by Masters Old and New: Recent Acquisitions	May 27, 1966–September 5, 1966	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1966	Studio Art Classes	July 22, 1966–August 21, 1966
1966	Exhibition of the Private Collections of Henry P. McIlhenny and Three Anonymous Lenders	July 1966–September 1966
1966	World Fairs (1851–1903): Prints, Drawings, and Photographs from the Library of Congress	September 2, 1966–September 25, 1966	Division of Education
1966	Masterpieces from Montreal	September 15, 1966–October 23, 1966
1966	Joan Miro: Prints and Books	September 15, 1966–October 23, 1966	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1966	Empire Profiles	October 15, 1966–November 13, 1966	Division of Education
1966	Edouard Manet Retrospective	November 3, 1966–December 11, 1966	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1966	Instructors’ Exhibition	November 19, 1966–December 12, 1966
1966	Le Supreme Bon Ton	December 16, 1966–January 9, 1967	Division of Education
1966	Splendid Occassions	December 20, 1966–February 27, 1967	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1967	Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clifford	Summer 1967
1967	Collection of Mrs. John Jay Ide	Summer 1967
1967	Maricio Lasansky: Nazi Drawings	January 16, 1967–February 19, 1967	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1967	Treasures from Poland	January 20, 1967–February 26, 1967
1967	Adult Students’ Exhibition	January 27, 1967–February 26, 1967
1967	The Friends Collect	January 27, 1967–March 12, 1967
1967	Young People’s Classes	March 10, 1967–March 27, 1967
1967	Drawings and Pastels of Edgar Degas	March 10, 1967–April 30, 1967	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1967	Colorful Era of Degas (Prints)	March 10, 1967–April 30, 1967	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1967	Les Enfants de Paris	April 1–23, 1967	Division of Education
1967	Light 7	April 1, 1967–May 11, 1967
1967	Selections from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. T. Edward Hanley	April 6, 1967–May 28, 1967
1967	Salute to the University Hospital	April 17–24, 1967
1967	Friends of Acquisition Exhibition	May 1967
1967	Collection of Henry P. McIlhenny	May 4, 1967–October 26, 1967	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1967	Adult Students’ Exhibition	May 5, 1967–June 5, 1967
1967	Paintings by Peter Hurd-Henriette Wyeth	May 12, 1967–June 11, 1967
1967	Prints of Two Worlds: Stampe di due Mondi	May 15, 1967–June 25, 1967	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1967	Philadelphia Arts Festival: Contemporary Sculpture	May 19, 1967–June 6, 1967
1967	Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Louis C. Madeira	June 19, 1967–September 21, 1967	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1967	Collection of Mrs. Francis Vogel Spitzer	June 20, 1967–September 6, 1967
1967	Collection of Mr. and Mrs. William Coxe Wright	June 22, 1967–September 12, 1967
1967	Collection of Mrs. John Wintersteen	June 23, 1967–September 8, 1967
1967	When Reason Dreams	July 1, 1967–August 27, 1967
1967	Anonymous Private Collection	July 20, 1967–September 18, 1967
1967	Master E.S.: Five Hundredth Anniversary	September 5, 1967–October 3, 1967
1967	Sculptures and Drawings by Henry Moore	September 9, 1967–October 10, 1967	Rodin Museum
1967	American Sculpture of the Sixties	September 15, 1967–October 29, 1967	Modern and Contemporary Art
1967	Clarence Kennedy Photographs	September 23, 1967–October 15, 1967	Division of Education
1967	101 American Primitive Watercolors and Pastels from the Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch Collection	October 10, 1967–November 7, 1967	American Art
1967	Young Painters with Real Problems: Works from the Youth Study Center School Art Classes	October 21, 1967–November 11, 1967
1967	Crystal Ball	October 28, 1967–	Costume and Textiles
1967	Seventy Artists Celebrate: The Samuel S. Fleischer Art Memorial	November 9, 1967–November 27, 1967	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1967	The Graphic Work of Ben Shahn	November 15, 1967–December 31, 1967
1967	Vincent Van Gogh: Drawings/Watercolors	November 17, 1967–December 31, 1967	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1967	Instructors’ Exhibition	November 24, 1967–December 17, 1967
1968	Flower Show	1968
1968	Drawings by the Bibiena Family	January 10, 1968–February 28, 1968	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1968	Adult Students’ Exhibition	January 12, 1968–February 10, 1968
1968	Unknown India: Ritual Art in Tribe and Village	January 20, 1968–February 26, 1968	Indian and Himalayan Art
1968	Paul Klee, 1879–1940: A Retrospective Exhibition	January 20, 1968–February 26, 1968	Modern and Contemporary Art
1968	Children’s Classes	February 10, 1968–March 9, 1968
1968	Eight Artists	March 5, 1968–March 27, 1968	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1968	Romantic Art in Britain: Paintings and Drawings, 1760–1860	March 14, 1968–April 21, 1968
1968	Architectural Drawings from the Royal Institute of British Architects	March 14, 1968–April 21, 1968	Division of Education
1968	Hanga: Contemporary Japanese Prints	April 5, 1968–April 30, 1968	The Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1968	Collection of Henry P. McIlhenny	May 1, 1968–October 24, 1968	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1968	Art of World Friendship: Children’s Work	May 3, 1968–May 31, 1968
1968	Collection of Emily McFadden Staempfli	May 24, 1968–September 2, 1968
1968	The Graphic Art of Mary Cassatt	May 24, 1968–July 7, 1968	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1968	The Dorothy Norman Collection	May 24, 1968–September 2, 1968	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1968	Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clifford	May 27, 1968–October 28, 1968
1968	Victorian Chicago: Photographs by Charles Laughlin	June 7, 1968–July 7, 1968
1968	Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Louis C. Madeira	June 17, 1968–October 3, 1968	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1968	Collection of Mrs. John Wintersteen	June 27, 1968–September 27, 1968
1968	The Philadelphia Lawyer (Portraits)	July 19, 1968–September 15, 1968
1968	Adults’ and Children’s Art Classes	July 23, 1968–August 30, 1968
1968	Moby Dick: The Passion of Ahab–Color Lithographs by Benton Spruance	September 30, 1968–November 3, 1968	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1968	Sculpture: Gift of R. Sturgis and Marion B.F. Ingersoll	October 4, 1968–December 24, 1968
1968	Mexican Art	October 4, 1968–December 24, 1968	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1968	Chagall at PMA	November 1968–
1968	Philadelphia Now	November 2, 1968–November 28, 1968	The Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1968	The Pure and Clear: American Innovations	November 13, 1968–January 21, 1969
1968	Recent Acquisitions: Prints and Drawings Department	November 15, 1968–December 22, 1968	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1968	Adrian Siegl Photographs	November 25, 1968–December 11, 1968	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Division of Education
1968	Instructors’ Exhibition	December 16, 1968–January 2, 1969
1969	Collection of Henry P. McIlhenny	Summer 1969	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1969	Collection of Jefferson Medical College and Medical Center	Summer 1969
1969	Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clifford	Summer 1969
1969	Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Louis C. Madeira	Summer 1969	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1969	Collection of Mrs. Albert Greenfield	Summer 1969
1969	Collection of Mrs. Earle Horter	Summer 1969
1969	Collection of Mrs. John Wintersteen	Summer 1969
1969	Collection of Mrs. Marcel Duchamp	Summer 1969
1969	Collection of Mrs. Sidney Biddle	Summer 1969
1969	Collection of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary	Summer 1969
1969	Charles Sheeler Memorial Exhibition	January 10, 1969–February 16, 1969	American Art
1969	John Marin: Etchings and Related Works	January 10, 1969–February 16, 1969
1969	Impact Africa: African Art and the West	January 10, 1969–June 30, 1969
1969	Recent Acquisitions by the Norton Simon Foundation	January 24, 1969–June 23, 1969
1969	Stewart Chaney Stage Designs	February 6, 1969–February 25, 1969	Division of Education
1969	Adult Students’ Exhibition	February 28, 1969–March 23, 1969
1969	And Gladly Teach	March 6–25, 1969	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1969	The Animal Kingdom	March 13, 1969–May 4, 1969
1969	Children’s Art Classes	March 28, 1969–April 6, 1969
1969	Light to the Seventh Power	April 1, 1969–May 11, 1969	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1969	Picasso’s Linocuts, 1958–1963	April 8–25, 1969	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1969	Volunteer Guides Exhibition	April 10, 1969–May 4, 1969
1969	Sculptor’s Drawings	April 10, 1969–June 30, 1969	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1969	Changing Attitudes Towards War: Evolution of Japanese Woodcut	May 15, 1969–June 26, 1969	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1969	Film-makers Class Exhibition	May 16, 1969–June 30, 1969	Division of Education
1969	Robert Frank Photographs	May 20, 1969–September 15, 1969
1969	Annual Student Exhibition	June 8–30, 1969	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1969	Parkway School Students	June 8, 1969–July 14, 1969
1969	Recent Graphics from Prague Smithsonian Institute	September 13, 1969–October 12, 1969	Division of Education
1969	Constantin Brancusi, 1876–1957: A Retrospective	September 26, 1969–November 2, 1969	Modern and Contemporary Art
1969	Friends Photography–Purchase	September 26, 1969–November 16, 1969	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1969	Recent Acquisitions: Ars Medica Collection	September 29, 1969–October 12, 1969
1969	Icons and Glass Paintings	October 6–30, 1969	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1969	Handicrafts of the Southwest, Smithsonian Institute	October 17, 1969–November 9, 1969	Division of Education
1969	Recent Acquisitions: Costumes and Textiles	October 24, 1969–December 31, 1969	Costume and Textiles
1969	Saga Prints from the Philadelphia Museum of Art Collection	November 5–28, 1969	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1969	Selections from the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial Print Collection	November 5, 1969–November 28, 1969	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1969	Children of Monaco	November 14–30, 1969
1969	French Primitive Photography	November 15, 1969–December 31, 1969	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1969	Rembrandt Etchings	November 18, 1969–January 2, 1970	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1969	The Campbell Museum Collection	November 22, 1969–December 30, 1969
1969	Philadelphia Collects Rodin; Sculptures and Drawings	December 3, 1969–January 18, 1970	Rodin Museum
1969	Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth	December 16, 1969–January 18, 1970	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1969	Saturday Afternoon Children’s Annuals Including Workshop by a Group of Parents	December 2–21, 1969	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial

Year	Title	Dates	Department	Additional Info
1970	Christo Wraps a Staircase; Ferrer Deflects a Fountain	1970
1970	Far Eastern Acquisitions	January 14, 1970–February 15, 1970	East Asian Art
1970	Photographs of Minor White	January 14, 1970–February 15, 1970	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1970	Friends Oriental–Purchase	January 20, 1970–February 1, 1970	East Asian Art
1970	Selections from the Print Collection	February 1, 1970–March 27, 1970	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1970	Prints and Drawings of the Danube School and South German Art: 1500–1550	February 10, 1970–March 24, 1970	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1970	The Mind’s Eye	February 15, 1970–June, 1971	Division of Education
1970	Vincent van Gogh: Paintings	February 28, 1970–April 5, 1970	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1970	Made in Philadelphia	February 28, 1970–June 30, 1970	American Art
1970	Drawings from the Accademia Carrara of Bergamo	March 3, 1970–March 31, 1970	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1970	Multiple Exposures	April 7–30, 1970	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1970	Jasper Johns: Prints 1960–1970	April 15, 1970–June 14, 1970	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1970	Craftsmen in the City, Smithsonian Institution	April 28, 1970–May 17, 1970	Division of Education
1970	Peace	May 19, 1970–June 21, 1970
1970	The Machine in the Garden: Portrait of the Artist	May 29, 1970–September 20, 1970
1970	Impressions of Music in Art, Holyoke Museum	June 2, 1970–July 5, 1970	Division of Education
1970	Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clifford	June 7, 1970–August 30, 1970
1970	Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Jack L. Wolgin	June 7, 1970–August 30, 1970
1970	Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Louis C. Madeira	June 7, 1970–August 30, 1970	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1970	Collection of Mrs. John Wintersteen	June 7, 1970–August 30, 1970
1970	The Drawing Society: Second Eastern Central Regional Drawing Exhibition	June 30, 1970–August 30, 1970	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1970	Recent Acquisitions: Paintings	July 1, 1970–September 15, 1970
1970	Vision and Expression: Photographs from George Eastman House	July 7, 1970–August 30, 1970	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1970	Paintings	July 14, 1970–September 20, 1970
1970	Suzuki Harunobu: Bicentenary Exhibition of Prints and Illustrated Books	September 18, 1970–November 29, 1970
1970	Product Environment: New Furniture	September 30, 1970–November 10, 1970
1970	The Art of Henry O. Tanner	November 24, 1970–January 3, 1971	American Art
1970	Jerry N. Uelsmann	December 12, 1970–February 7, 1971	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1970	Albrecht Durer: A Study Exhibition in Print Connoisseurship	December 21, 1970–February 21, 1971	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1970	Young People’s Art Classes	January 24, 1970–February 24, 1970	Division of Education
1970	Adult Student Exhibition	March 6, 1970–April 19, 1970	Division of Education
1970	Philadelphia Department of Recreation	April 13–26, 1970	Division of Education
1970	Philadelphia Parkway School Students	May 19–31, 1970	Division of Education
1970	Summer Students’ Exhibition	July 7–28, 1970	Division of Education
1970	Museum Studio Workshop Group	August 3, 1970–September 6, 1970	Division of Education
1970	Mini-Museum Mobile	October 5, 1970–November 15, 1970	Division of Education
1970	Instructors’ Exhibition	November 23, 1970–January 3, 1971	Division of Education
1970	Philadelphia Museum Faculty Exhibition	December 4, 1970–January 18, 1971	Division of Education
1970	Annual Faculty Exhibition	January 13–29, 1970	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1970	73rd Annual Student Exhibition	June 8–30, 1970	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1971	Picasso Etchings: 1968 (or Picasso: 347 Suite)	January 4, 1971–February 22, 1971	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1971	Nuclear Energy: Evolution of a Sculpture by Henry Moore	January 5–29, 1971	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1971	Folk Art of the Cuna Indians	January 14, 1971–February 14, 1971	Division of Education
1971	Recent Acquisitions: Gifts from the Collection of Mrs. Wharton Sinkler and the Late Mr. Sinkler	January 19, 1971–March 31, 1971
1971	Gifts from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch	Ferbruary 19, 1971–March 28, 1971	American Art
1971	The Story of Samplers: Whitman Samplers	February 19, 1971–August 21, 1971	Costume and Textiles
1971	Multiples: The First Decade	March 5, 1971–April 4, 1971
1971	Ingres in Rome	March 11, 1971–April 11, 1971	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1971	Samuel Maitin: His Work, 1956–1971	March 25, 1971–April 30, 1971	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1971	Recent Acquisitions: 20th Century Decorative Arts	April 6, 1971–December 26, 1971
1971	From Realism to Symbolism: Whistler and His World	April 17, 1971–May 23, 1971	American Art
1971	Jasper Johns	April 15, 1971–June 14, 1971	Modern and Contemporary Art
1971	Recent Acquisitions: Photographs	April 22, 1971–June 13, 1971	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1971	Old Master Drawings	April 22, 1971–May 5, 1971	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1971	Friends Purchase: Old Master Prints	May 3, 1971–May 9, 1971
1971	City/2	June 10, 1971–January 2, 1972
1971	Recent Acquisitions: Prints and Drawings	June 30, 1971–August 29, 1971	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1971	Collection of Henry P. McIlhenny	July 27, 1971–September 6, 1971	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1971	Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clifford	July 27, 1971–September 6, 1971
1971	Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Perls	July 27, 1971–September 6, 1971
1971	Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Louis C. Madeira	July 27, 1971–September 6, 1971	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1971	Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Crompton III	July 27, 1971–September 6, 1971
1971	Collection of Mrs. Eric de Spoelberch	July 27, 1971–September 6, 1971
1971	Collection of Mrs. John Wintersteen	July 27, 1971–September 6, 1971
1971	Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione: Master Draughtsman of the Baroque	September 17, 1971–November 28, 1971	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1971	Chinese Calligraphy	September 25, 1971–November 7, 1971	East Asian Art
1971	1492: An Exploration of Seven Cities	October 12, 1971–May 31, 1972 and October 12, 1972–June 30, 1973
1971	Recent Acquisitions: Sculpture	October 13, 1971–January 2, 1972
1971	Eighteenth Century French Prints	October 15, 1971–November 30, 1971	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1971	Faces at Fleisher	November 2–24, 1971	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1971	Paul Strand Photographs	November 24, 1971–January 30, 1972	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1971	Under 500	December 3, 1971–January 23, 1972	Division of Education
1971	Silkscreen: History of a Medium	December 17, 1971–February 27, 1972	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1971	Gifts from the Collection of Mrs. Wharton Sinkler and the Late Mr. Sinkler	December 17, 1971–February 27, 1972	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1971	Adult Students’ Exhibitio	February 19, 1971–March 28, 1971	Division of Education
1971	Young Students’ Exhibition	April 3–18, 1971	Division of Education
1971	Philadelphia Department of Recreation Inner-City Group	April 23, 1971–May 23, 1971	Division of Education
1971	Philadelphia Parkway School	May 28m 1971–June 20, 1971	Division of Education
1971	Highlights of Annual Student Exhibition, 1970–1971	October 4, 1971–October 27, 1971	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1971	Saturday Afternoon Children’s Classes Exhibition	December 1–18, 1971	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1972	The Cubist Vision	1972	Modern and Contemporary Art
1972	Mummers´ Costumes	January 7, 1972–February 7, 1972	Costume and Textiles
1972	Dutch Masterpieces from the Eighteenth Century	February 17, 1972–March 19, 1972
1972	23 Sculptors	February 18, 1972–April 15, 1972	Division of Education
1972	Latin American Graphics	February 24, 1972–April 30, 1972
1972	The Best from Two Great Collections: 15th- and 16th-Century Woodcuts and Hogarth Prints	February 24, 1972–March 12, 1972	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1972	Foreigners in Japan: Yokohama and Related Woodcuts	March 17, 1972–May 14, 1972	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1972	Notable Architecture in Philadelphia	March 17, 1972–August 30, 1972
1972	Recent Acquisitions: William Blake and Renaissance Decorative Arts	March 28, 1972–August 31, 1972
1972	Cheltenham Art Center	April 3, 1972–May 1, 1972	Gallery ‘72
1972	Gericault	April 5, 1972–May 14, 1972	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1972	Friends Purchase Party and Exhibition: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture	April 27, 1972	Modern and Contemporary Art
1972	Lee Cultural Center	May 1–21, 1972	Gallery ‘72
1972	Contemporary Selections: Paintings	May 15, 1972–August 31, 1972	Modern and Contemporary Art
1972	Victor Vasarely: Silkscreen Prints	May 19, 1972–August 19, 1972	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1972	Third Annual Inner City Festival	May 23, 1972–June 4, 1972	Gallery ‘72
1972	Ile-Ife Black Humanitarian Center	June 7, 1972–July 2, 1972	Gallery ‘72
1972	Eighteenth Century Enamels	June 11, 1972–October 29, 1972
1972	Community Arts Center in Wallingford	July 3–30, 1972	Gallery ‘72
1972	Anonymous Private Collection	July 18, 1972–September 3, 1972
1972	Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clifford	July 18, 1972–September 3, 1972
1972	Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Louis C. Madeira	July 18, 1972–September 3, 1972
1972	Collection of Mr. and Mrs. William Coxe Wright	July 18, 1972–September 3, 1972
1972	Collection of Mrs. John Wintersteen	July 18, 1972–September 3, 1972
1972	Photographic Society of Philadelphia	July 31, 1972–August 27, 1972	Gallery ‘72
1972	Chess	August 15, 1972–September 17, 1972
1972	Ocean City Art Center	August 28, 1972–September 24, 1972	Gallery ‘72
1972	The North American Indians: Photographs by Edward S. Curtis	September 7, 1972–October 15, 1972	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1972	American Art since 1945: A Loan Exhibition from the Museum of Modern Art	September 15, 1972–October 22, 1972	Modern and Contemporary Art
1972	Wayne Art Center	September 25, 1972–October 22, 1972	Gallery ‘72
1972	Recent Acquisitions: Benjamin West’s Agrippina	October 2, 1972–November 30, 1972	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1972	Philadelphia in New York: 90 Modern Works from the Philadelphia Museum of Art	October 16, 1972–January 7, 1973	Modern and Contemporary Art
1972	Chester County Art Association	October 23, 1972–November 19, 1972	Gallery ‘72
1972	Old Master Drawings from Christ Church, Oxford	November 4, 1972–December 17, 1972	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1972	Painting and Photography: Something in Common	November 6–29, 1972	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1972	Claes Oldenburg: Object into Monument	November 17, 1972–December 27, 1972	Modern and Contemporary Art
1972	Prints in Progress	November 20, 1972–December 12, 1972	Gallery ‘72
1972	Edward Lear in Greece	December 15, 1972–January 14, 1973	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1972	Sculpture to Touch	March 4, 1972–April 7, 1972	Division of Education
1972	Student Exhibition	April 21, 1972–May 13, 1972	Division of Education
1972	Philadelphia Parkway School	May 26, 1972–June 18, 1972	Division of Education
1972	Young People’s Prints	May 26, 1972–July 2, 1972	Division of Education
1972	Form in Art	May 26, 1972–July 9, 1972	Division of Education
1972	Children’s Summer Program	August 1, 1972–September 15, 1972	Division of Education
1972	Sculpture: Graduate Students of the University of Pennsylvania and Tyler School of Fine Arts	October 16, 1972–November 16, 1972	Division of Education
1972	Philadelphia Museum of Art Staff	December 18, 1972–January 14, 1973	Division of Education
1972	Being and Nothingness	January 6–27, 1972	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1972	Annual Faculty Exhibition	February 1–25, 1972	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1972	Micro-Museum: An Environment for Kids	March 4, 1972–April 28, 1972	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1972	Annual Student Exhibition	June 5–29, 1972	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1972	Highlights of the Students Exhibition	October 2–27, 1972	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1972	Children’s Saturday Afternoon Art Classes	December 2–16, 1972	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1973	Patterns: American Nineteenth-Century Painting and Literature	January 4–29, 1973	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1973	Mummers Costumes	January 6, 1973–February 2, 1973
1973	A Sense of Style: Two Hundred Years of Philadelphia Fashion	January 19, 1973–February 25, 1973	Costume and Textiles
1973	Sculpture of the Inuit: Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic	January 25, 1973–March 4, 1973
1973	Philadelphia Philateleia	January 26, 1973–February 11, 1973
1973	Special Stamps for Someone Special	January 26, 1973–February 11, 1973
1973	Upper Merion Cultural Center	January 29, 1973–February 25, 1973	Gallery ‘72
1973	Norman McLaren Film Event	February 2, 1973–March 17, 1973	Division of Education
1973	Bastille Art League	February 26, 1973–March 25, 1973	Gallery ‘73
1973	Recent Acquisitions: American Paintings and Drawings	March 1, 1973–April 30, 1973	American Art
1973	Three Centuries of Chiaroscuro Woodcuts	March 10, 1973–April 8, 1973	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1973	Paul Gauguin: Monotypes	March 23, 1973–May 13, 1973	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1973	Philadelphia Wall Art	March 26, 1973–April 22, 1973	Gallery ‘73
1973	Philadelphia Architecture I: Frank Furness	April 5, 1973–May 27, 1973	Division of Education
1973	James Rosenquist: Slush Thrust	April 6–30, 1973	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1973	West Oak Lane Art League	April 23, 1973–May 20, 1973	Gallery ‘73
1973	Images of Women in the Performing Arts	May 1, 1973–May 26, 1973
1973	Recent Acquisitions: Twentieth Century Art	May 1, 1973–July 31, 1973	Modern and Contemporary Art
1973	English and American Watercolors and Drawings	May 8, 1973–October 24, 1973	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1973	A Decade of Gifts	May 12, 1973–June 16, 1973
1973	Main Line Center for the Arts	May 21, 1973–June 14, 1973	Gallery ‘73
1973	Friends Purchase Exhibition: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Decorative Arts	May 30, 1973–June 13, 1973
1973	The Theatrical World of Osaka Prints	June 7, 1973–September 2, 1973	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1973	Inner-City Arts Festival	June 15, 1973–July 1, 1973	Gallery ‘73
1973	Dubois and His Circle	June 22, 1973–September 27, 1973	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1973	The Delaware Valley Guild of Professional Photographers	July 3–29, 1973	Gallery ‘73
1973	The Woodward Foundation	July 20, 1973–July 29, 1973
1973	The Arts and Crafts League of Delaware Valley	July 31, 1973–September 30, 1973	Gallery ‘73
1973	Philadelphia Museum Summer Programs	August 6, 1973–September 28, 1973
1973	Painted Bride Art Center	September 5–30, 1973	Gallery ‘73
1973	Marcel Duchamp	September 22, 1973–December 9, 1973	Modern and Contemporary Art
1973	Perkiomen Valley Art Center	October 1–29, 1973	Gallery ‘73
1973	Recent Acquisitions: Battista Dossi’s Venus and Cupid	October 22, 1973–December 31, 1973
1973	The Invisible Artist	October 31, 1973–June 30, 1974	Division of Education
1973	Clarence John Laughlin: The Personal Eye	November 8, 1973–January 6, 1974	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The Museum paid tribute to the remarkable photographic achievement of Clarence John Laughlin in an exhibition, The Personal Eye, on view from November 8 to January 6. Organized and installed by Michael Hoffman, Advisor to the Alfred Stieglitz Center of Photography, with the assistance of Curatorial Assistant Caroline Wistar, the exhibition of some 200 photographs distilled the essence of Laughlin's life work, from scenes of his native New Orleans to the poetic fantasies that reveal the scope of his creative abilities. In December the Museum was privileged to welcome Mr. Laughlin who discussed his work at a Wednesday Lecture. A monograph of his work, published in cooperation with Aperture magazine, was available in the Museum Shop. Curators: Michael E. Hoffman and Caroline Wistar
1973	Old York Road Art Guide	November 26, 1973–December 21, 1973	Gallery ‘73
1973	Graterford Prison Artists	December 21, 1973–January 21, 1974	Gallery ‘73
1973	Museum Faculty	January 21, 1973–February 23, 1973	Division of Education
1973	Children’s Classes	March 4–28, 1973	Division of Education
1973	Adult Students	April 5–27, 1973	Division of Education
1973	Form in Art	May 3–16, 1973	Division of Education
1973	Philadelphia Parkway School	May 24, 1973–June 8, 1973	Division of Education
1973	Philadelphia Museum Young People’s Prints	July 2–31, 1973	Division of Education
1973	Philadelphia Museum Summer Programs	August 6, 1973–September 28, 1973	Division of Education
1973	Daily News Weather Report	October 8, 1973–November 21, 1973	Division of Education
1973	Studio Classes Faculty	December 3, 1973–Jaunuary 18, 1974	Division of Education
1973	A Child’s Garden of Art	February 6–28, 1973	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1973	Annual Faculty Exhibition	March 6–30, 1973	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1973	Annual Student Exhibition	June 4–29, 1973	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1973	Highlights of the Annual Student Show	October 1–15, 1973	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1973	Philadelphia Flash/LA Flash	October 24, 1973–November 21, 1973	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1973	Annual Children’s Exhibition	December 1–15, 1973	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1974	Mummers’ Costumes	January 12–20, 1974	Department of Urban Outreach
1974	Recent Acquisitions: American Art	January 29, 1974–April 30, 1974	American Art	Selected examples of American art new to the Museum's collections, ranging from paintings and furniture to decorative arts of the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, were installed in the Recent Acquisitions Gallery in January by Darrel Sewell and Beatrice Garvan, Curator and Associate Curator, respectively, of American Art.
1974	Doylestown Art League	February 4, 1974–March 3, 1974	Gallery ‘74
1974	Camera Work: 1903–1917	February 21, 1974–April 14, 1974	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1974	Old Master Drawings from the Academy Collection	March 1, 1974–April 14, 1974	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1974	Manayunk Art Center	March 4–31, 1974	Gallery ‘74
1974	Ukranian National Women’s League	April 1, 1974–May 27, 1974	Gallery ‘74
1974	In Her Own Image	April 5, 1974–May 10, 1974	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1974	Miniatures	April 22–27, 1974	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1974	Images of Women in the Performing Arts	May 1–26, 1974
1974	A Decade of Gifts	May 12, 1974–June 16, 1974		The Friends of the Museum celebrated their tenth anniversary this year with the exhibition A Decade of Gifts from May 12 to June 16. Installed in the Special Exhibition Galleries by Michael Botwinick, Assistant Director for Art, the objects represented the superb and varied works acquired through the Friends since the organization was founded in 1964 with the goal of providing supplementary funds for the enrichment of the collections. Curator: Michael Botwinick
1974	Inner City Arts Festival	May 28, 1974–June 10, 1974	Gallery ‘74
1974	Greater Northeast Art Alliance	June 11, 1974–July 8, 1974	Gallery ‘74
1974	American Watercolors and Drawings from the Museum Collection	October 4, 1974–December 10, 1974	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	In conjunction with the publication of the Museum's 1975 Engagement Calendar featuring American watercolors and drawings from the Museum's collections, the originals were exhibited in the A Level corridor from October 4 through December 10. These were supplemented with other works from the collection chosen by Ann Percy, Associate Curator of Drawings.
1974	Massimo Stanzione: The Massacre of the Innocents	October 12, 1974–February 18, 1975	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	A recently acquired masterpiece of the Baroque style in Europe, The Massacre of the Innocents, by the seventeenth century Neapolitan artist Massimo Stanzione, was the inspiration for a small didactic exhibition from October 12 to February 18. Organized by Deborah M. McGuire, Research Assistant in the Department of Painting before 1900, the exhibition in the first Special Exhibition gallery also included prints, drawings, and paintings by other seventeenth century Neapolitan artists.
1974	Recent Acquisitions: 20th Century Art Department	October 30, 1974–February 18, 1975	Modern and Contemporary Art	Displayed through December in the Special Exhibition Galleries were a group of major recent acquisitions in twentieth century art. Philip Pearlstein's Two Female Models with Drawing Table, acquired by the Museum through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for the purchase of work by a living American artist, shared the spotlight with impressive works by Italo Scanga, Roy Lichtenstein, Sidney Goodman, Rafael Ferrer, and Walter Darby Bannard. Curator: Anne d'Harnoncourt
1974	The Albert M. Greenfield and Elizabeth M. Greenfield Collection	October 30, 1974–February 18, 1975	Modern and Contemporary Art	Art of the twentieth century was the prominent attraction when Members were invited on October 29 to a preview of The Albert M. Greenfield and Elizabeth M. Greenfield Collection, given to the Museum through the generous bequest of Mr. Greenfield and as a result of the decision of his widow, Mrs. Donald A. Petrie, a Vice-President of the Museum. Joining Mrs. Petrie at the preview were Museum President George M. Chetson, Honorary Trustee Mrs. ssell Richardson, and Museum Vice-President Henry P. McIlhenny. Some fifty paintings, drawings, and sculptures by such artists as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Larry Rivers, many previously unrepresented in the Museum's collections, were installed in the Special Exhibition Galleries by Anne d'Harnoncourt, Curator of Twentieth Century Painting. Special events at the preview included a lecture by Miss d'Harnoncourt and films on contemporary art.
1974	Collab ’74: British Contemporary Design	November 20, 1974–December 31, 1974	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	The best of British contemporary design was displayed from November to December in the Collab 1974: British Contemporary Design exhibition sponsored by the Museum's Inter-Society Committee for 20th-Century Decorative Arts. Some forty of Britain's top designers of the last decade were represented in the exhibition in the Print Gallery, handsomely installed by Collab members in cooperation with Kathryn B. Hiesinger, Curator of Decorative Arts after 1700
1974	A Touch of Gold: Exhibition and Sale	November 23, 1974–December 15, 1974
1974	Displacement Project: A Public Event	December 3, 1974–January 3, 1975	Department of Urban Outreach
1974	Durham Experience	January 23, 1974–Febraury 14, 1974	Division of Education
1974	Form in Art	February 18, 1974–March 15, 1974	Division of Education
1974	Saturday Young People’s Classes	March 18, 1974–April 12, 1974	Division of Education
1974	Philadelphia Museum Adult Students	April 19, 1974–May 18, 1974	Division of Education
1974	Philadelphia Museum Employees	May 27, 1974–June 8, 1974	Division of Education
1974	Summer Young People’s Exhibit: Studio Classes	July 1–30,1974	Division of Education
1974	Summer Program Children’s Exhibit	August 5, 1974–September 13, 1974	Division of Education
1974	Construction Murals by Children	October 7, 1974–November 22, 1974	Division of Education
1974	Story of Chanukah	December 9, 1974–January 3, 1975	Division of Education
1974	Open Studio/Work in Progress	January 22, 1974–February 23, 1974	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1974	Annual Faculty Exhibition	March 5–26, 1974	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1974	Annual Student Exhibition	June 3–29, 1974	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1974	Highlights of the Annual Student Exhibition	October 1, 1974–November 22, 1974	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1974	Annual Children’s Exhibition	December 1–13, 1974	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial

Year	Title	Dates	Department	Additional Info
1975	Form in American Silver	January 15, 1975–April 13, 1975	American Art
1975	Mummers Costumes	January 17, 1975–February 2, 1975	Department of Urban Outreach
1975	La Première Pose	February 18, 1975–April 13, 1975	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	Howard Robert's nineteenth century American sculpture, La Première Pose, was the focus of an exhibition in the Armory from February 18 to April 13, installed by Richard G. Dorment, Assistant Curator of Painting before 1900. Also on view were works by Thomas Eakins and William Rush. The exhibition was inspired by the publication of a Museum Bulletin featuring an article by noted art historian David Sellin about the efforts of nineteenth century Philadelphia artists to study the nude model in the face of criticism from the conservative art establishment.
1975	Museum Treasures at Rodin	April 14, 1975–June 30, 1975	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1975	Seahorses by Sam Gilliam	April 25, 1975–May 26, 1975	American Art	Creating excitement during the Philadelphia Festival, a project of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, was Seahorses, a dramatic draped fabric environment by artist Sam Gilliam. Adorning the two exterior walls of the Museum's East Façade, Seahorses evolved from the artist's inspiration that the large bronze rings circling the Museum building were, in Greek mythology, used to tie seahorses to Neptune's temple.
1975	Rites of Marriage	April 25, 1975–May 21, 1975	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1975	Centennial Fair: In Celebration of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s 100th Birthday	October 18–20, 1975
1975	Atelier	January 13, 1975–February 27, 1975	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1975	Annual Faculty Exhibition	March 13, 1975–April 15, 1975	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1975	Annual Student Exhibition	June 2–28, 1975	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1976	Terminal Iron Works: Photographs of David Smith by Dan Budnik, 1962–1963	February 1976–January 1978	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	An exhibition circulated by The American Federation of Arts, New York.
1976	Old Master Drawings: Museum and Academy Collections	February 27, 1976–July 6, 1976	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	In April, Associate Curator for Drawings Ann Percy mounted an exhibition of superb Old Master drawings from the collections of the Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, on deposit here.
1976	American Family Portraits, 1730–1976	February 28, 1976–December 31, 1976	Division of Education
1976	Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art	April 11, 1976–October 10, 1976	American Art	Opening on April 11, the Bicentennial exhibition Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art presented over 550 magnificent objects created in the Philadelphia area, ranging from paintings, prints, and photographs to sculpture, decorative arts, costumes, and architecture. Designed by the Philadelphia architectural firm of Venturi and Rauch, the installation was arranged chronologically in 50-year periods.
1976	Eagles, Flags, and Heroes: Signs and Symbols of Patriotic Pride	July 19, 1976–October 4, 1976	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	From July 19 through mid-autumn the exhibition Eagles, Flags, and Heroes: Signs and Symbols of Patriotic Pride, organized by Ann Percy, Associate Curator for Drawings, considerably enlivened the Ground Floor Corridor. Popular American emblems ranging from eagles to Uncle Sam adorned a colorful variety of approximately 50 objects in diverse media.
1976	Ars Medica	October 22, 1976–January 2, 1977	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	A unique asset of the Museum's Prints, Drawings and Photographs Department is its large Ars Medica Collection, consisting of prints dating from the 15th century to the present, all illustrating some aspect of medical history or practice. Prior to touring major European museums, 137 works from the Collection were installed in the Museum's Ground Floor Corridor.
1976	First Impressions: The Fine Art of Printmaking	November 27, 1976–January 30, 1977	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1976	Form in Art	May 6, 1976–June 13, 1976	Division of Education
1976	Highlights of the Student Annual	October 4–30, 1976	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1976	South Philadelphia Viewpoint	October 4–30. 1976	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1976	Saturday Afternoon Children’s Classes	December 4–11, 1976	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1977	Southeast Asian Ceramics	January 3, 1977–February 6, 1977	East Asian Art	The Museum was privileged to play host to the first major exhibition of Southeast Asian Ceramics ever presented in the United States. The exhibition included 109 of the finest examples of Khmer, Thai, and Vietnamese ceramics dating from the 9th to the 17th centuries, on loan from museums and private collections.
1977	Looking at Style	February 1, 1977–May 1, 1978	Division of Education
1977	Gifts to Mark a Century: An Exhibition Celebrating the Centennial of the Philadelphia Museum of Art	February 18, 1977–March 20, 1977	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	The Museum's centennial anniversary culminated in the impressive exhibition Gifts to Mark a Century. More than 500 works of art were received as gifts in celebration of this important milestone. They ranged from European masterworks of painting to American furniture and decorative arts to treasures from India and the Far East.
1977	Recent Acquisitions: Made in Philadelphia	March 18, 1977–September 1, 1977	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Recent Acquisitions: Made in Philadelphia recognizes the extraordinary range of accomplishment of artists living and working in the Philadelphia area. The exhibition presents some 30 paintings, drawings, and prints and reflects the Museum's efforts over the past five years to add to its collections the work of contemporary Philadelphia artists.
1977	Photographs from the Museum’s Collection I: America	April 1, 1977–July 24, 1977	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1977	American Presidential China	April 2, 1977–May 21, 1977	American Art	American Presidential Chinapresents 115 ceramic objects used by the nation's First Families from George and Martha Washington to Gerald and Betty Ford. These works reflect the personal style of each President as well as changing tastes in ceramic arts
1977	La Belle Epoque: 1880–1915	June 4, 1977–September 30, 1977	Costume and Textiles	La Belle Epoque: 1800–1915 is an exhibition of 30 magnificent costumes, complemented by furniture and decorative arts of the period.
1977	Photographs from the Museum’s Collection II: Europe	June 18, 1977–August 30, 1977	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1977	European Drawings from the Fitzwilliam	September 1, 1977–October 16, 1977	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1977	Creative Growth	September 10, 1977–October 2, 1977	Division of Education
1977	American Crafts 1977	October 3–30, 1977	American Art
1977	Islamic Art	October 8, 1977–January 28, 1978	East Asian Art	To draw attention to the Museum's reserve collection Jean Gordon Lee, Curator of Far Eastern Art, developed the exhibition Islamic Art, a beautiful selection from our Near Eastern holdings.
1977	Italian Renaissance Majolica and the Three Books of the Potter’s Art	October 8, 1977–February 15, 1978	Division of Education
1977	American Prints of the Twentieth Century	November 5, 1977–January 9, 1978	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition seeks to trace development of American printmaking from the turn of the century to the present. In the center are works of our immediate time, the 1970s, while spread along the peripheral walls are their forerunners, arranged by decades. At any moment one can turn to the work of another decade to make comparisons.
1977	Fashions of Embroidery	December 10, 1977–April 30, 1978	Costume and Textiles	Elsie McGarvey, Curator Emeritus of the Department of Costume and Textiles, demonstrated the variety of our holdings in the charming exhibition Fashions of Embroidery.
1977	Eye on the Seventies	December 16, 1977–February 25, 1978
1977	Form in Art	May 6, 1977–June 13, 1977	Division of Education
1977	Faculty Exhibition	April 5–21, 1977	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1977	Adult Student Exhibition	June 6–30, 1977	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1977	Highlights of the 1977 Student Exhibition	October 3–22, 1977	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1977	Lou Hirsham: Caricatures and Constructions, 1936–1977	October 25, 1977–November 23, 1977	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1977	Children’s Exhibtion: Works from Saturday Classes	December 3–17, 1977	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1978	The Stamp of Whistler	January 22, 1978–March 15, 1978	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1978	Turner Watercolors from the British Museum	March 4, 1978–April 30, 1978	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1978	Life with Dada: Beatrice Wood Drawings	March 11, 1978–April 9, 1978	Modern and Contemporary Art	This exhibition includes drawings by Beatrice Wood ranging in date from 1917 to 1950, as well as a small selection of works and portraits of artists whom she knew in New York in the years 1916 to 1921
1978	Incomplete Plans: Decorative Sculpture from the Museum	March 26, 1978–August 8, 1978	Division of Education
1978	The Face of China: 1860–1912	April 15, 1978–June 15, 1978	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The Face of China As Seen by Photographers & Travelers 1860–1912 is an exhibition presented by the Philadelphia Museum of Art from April 15 to June 25, 1978
1978	Eight Artists	April 29, 1978–June 25, 1978	Modern and Contemporary Art
1978	Himalayan Art	June 3, 1978–July 30, 1978	Indian and Himalayan Art	To close the year, Stella Kramrisch, Curator Emeritus of Indian Art, building on the strength and tradition of her department, exhibited Himalayan Art, an intense evocation of the beauty of Tibetan and Nepalese artistic tradition.
1978	Currier and Ives	June 6, 1978–October 15, 1978
1978	The Jeweler’s Art: European and American Jewelry	July 1, 1978–October 22, 1978	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	Attracted by the artistic potential rather than the intrinsic value of their materials, such as the emphasis on precious gems in joaillerie, the jewelers whose work is exhibited here made inventive use of enameling, a craft revived in the nineteenth century as a result of renewed interest in Renaissance design.
1978	Contemporary Drawings: Philadelphia I	September 15, 1978–November 26, 1978	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1978	A Graphic Side of the Second Empire	September 16, 1978–November 19, 1978	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	A group of Second Empire prints from the collection shown in the Director's Corridor supplemented the exhibition The Second Empire: Art in France under Napoleon III
1978	The Second Empire: Art in France under Napoleon III	October 1, 1978–November 26, 1978
1978	Thomas Eakins Memorabilia	October 18, 1978–December 20, 1978		n 1929 and 1930, Mrs. Thomas Eakins and Miss Mary Adeline Williams gave the Philadelphia Museum of Art more than seventy paintings, drawings and sculptures by Thomas Eakins, establishing a collection that is vivid evidence of the artist's talent and working methods. Since then, others fascinated by Eakins' work and personality have donated additional examples of his art and a great variety of material related to his career. As a result, the Thomas Eakins Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art is unparalleled as a record of the life and the artistic achievement of one of America's greatest artists. This exhibition of works and documents of Eakins, his students and friends, celebrates the publication of the handbook to the Thomas Eakins Collection.
1978	Paul Strand: Discoveries	November 12, 1978–July 15, 1979	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1978	Eye on the Seventies	December 2, 1978–February 11, 1979	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1978	The Charlotte Dorrance Wright Collection	December 16, 1978–January 21, 1979	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	In December, an exhibition was opened of the works of art bequeathed to the Museum by Charlotte Dorrance Wright. This collection gave the Museum seven flower paintings by FantinLatour, the first Gauguin to enter the collection, a group of eleven paintings by the English animal painter Munnings, a Degas, the beautiful Monet view of Antibes, three Pissarros, and a Sisley.
1978	Ornamental Icing: Cake Decorating Contest	April 1–9, 1978	Department of Community Programs
1978	Mechanical Music Machines	November 24, 1978–January 7, 1978	Department of Community Programs
1978	The Collecting Instinct	January 18, 1978–February 18, 1978	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1978	Annual Fleisher Faculty Exhibition	March 7–30, 1978	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1978	Maxim B. Gottlieb: A Retrospective Exhibition	April 4–27, 1978	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1978	Frank Chinnici: A Sicilian’s Art in Philadelphia	May 1–4, 1978	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1978	Annual Student Exhibition	June 6–29, 1978	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1978	Highlights of the 81st Annual Adult Student Exhibition	October 2–14, 1978	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1978	Kenley Gardner: A Photographic Essay	October 22, 1978–November 2, 1978	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1978	Challenge Exhibition: Frank Galuszka, Lucy Glick, Mary Sentner	November 7–30, 1978	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1978	Annual Children’s Exhibit	December 2–16, 1978	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1979	Treasures of Early Irish Art	February 25, 1979–May 27, 1979	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	Treasures of Early Irish Art opened at the Museum on February 25. Comprising works from the National Museum of Ireland, the Royal Irish Academy, and Trinity College, Dublin, and organized in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the exhibition toured the United States for two years, ending in Philadelphia.
1979	Twentieth Century Design: Recent Acquisitions	March 10, 1979–May 6, 1979	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	While craftsmen and industrial designers often express different concerns, they share an understanding of the nature of materials and the limitations and capabilities of available techniques. The diversity of forms created by hand and by machine enrich the Museum's collections of the decorative arts of this century.
1979	Contemporary Drawings: Philadelphia II	March 24, 1979–May 20, 1979	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Contemporary Drawings: Philadelphia is an involvement in and a thorough look at drawings by Philadelphia-area artists as presented in an unusual cooperative exhibition by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
1979	Johnson Collection Drawings	May 1979–July 1979
1979	The Imprint of a Patron: Lessing J. Rosenwald	May 5, 1979–August 5, 1979	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1979	Twentieth Century Drawings from the Collection	May 18, 1979–July 1, 1979	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1979	The Architecture of Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens [1869–1944]	June 9, 1979–August 12, 1979	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	The Architecture of Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869–1944) is an exhibition of 30 architectural photographs and models installed in the Special Exhibitions Gallery.
1979	Violet Oakley (1874–1961)	June 30, 1979–August 12, 1979	Modern and Contemporary Art	Violet Oakley (1874–1961) is an exhibition of 175 paintings, drawings, and objects installed in the Special Exhibitions Gallery. A special issue of the Museum Bulletinwith a checklist has been published.
1979	Photographs: Recent Acquisitions	August 4, 1979–November 4, 1979	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1979	William Klein Retrospective, or Meatyard Siskin	August 5, 1979–December 31, 1979
1979	The University of Pennsylvania: Collector and Patron of Art, 1779–1979	August 11, 1979–September 16, 1979	American Art	This year, the University of Pennsylvania celebrates its two hundredth anniversary as the first seat of learning in the United States to be named a university. The present exhibit of works owned by, or otherwise associated with, the University is the result of a close cooperation in which the Museum joins the University in celebrating its bicentenary.
1979	Fashion Plate: Modes and Manners	September 1, 1979–December 2, 1979	Costume and Textiles	Fashion Plate: Modes and Manners is an exhibition of 105 prints installed in the Print Gallery.
1979	Collab Auction	September 20, 1979
1979	The Delights of Fine Fashion	September 29, 1979–February 10, 1980	Costume and Textiles	Delights of Fine Fashion is an exhibition of 48 costumes and 74 accessories installed in the Costume and Textile Gallery (inaugural exhibition), supported by the installation of 49 costumes and 45 samplers throughout the Museum.
1979	Snuff Bottles	October 1979
1979	Noguchi’s Imaginary Landscapes	October 20, 1979–Janaury 6, 1980	Modern and Contemporary Art	Noguchi's Imaginary Landscapesis an exhibition of 80 sculptures, 119 photo panels, and 33 charts installed in the Special Exhibitions Gallery. The Walker Art Center has published an accompanying catalogue.
1979	Ansel Adams: 100 Photographs	November 17, 1979–March 2, 1980	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Ansel Adams: 100 Photographs is an exhibition of 96 photographs installed in the Stieglitz Center Gallery
1979	On the Move: The Art of Transportation	December 15, 1979–March 23, 1980	On the Move: The Art of Transportation is an exhibition of 105 prints installed in the Print Gallery.
1979	Liturgy in Gaelic: Irish Mass in memory of Matthew H. McClosky from their Children	May 13, 1979
1979	Challenge Exhibition: Frieda Fehrenbacher, Barry Lehr, Michael Williamson	January 16, 1979–February 3, 1979	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1979	Challenge Exhibition: Kathy Halton, Larry Spaid, Ruth Wolf	February 6, 1979–March 1, 1979	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1979	Fleisher Faculty Annual	March 6–31, 1979	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1979	Challenge Exhibition: Anita Charney Harris, Diane Piere, Bruce Pollack	April 3–28, 1979	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
1979	82nd Annual Adult Student Exhibition	June 4–28, 1979	Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial

Year	Title	Dates	Department	Additional Info
1980	Norman/Stieglitz	February 1, 1980–July 6, 1980	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1980	Sports in Art	February 3, 1980–March 2, 1980	European Painting before 1900 Johnson Collection	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection Recognizing that comprehensiveness is not possible in an exhibition of this scale, Sports in Art features a sampling of Olympic sports and related athletic activities. Just as certain sports have had great popular appeal without finding wide representation in art, others have captured artists' imaginations while failing to win a large following in the sporting world. Clearly artists have had their own criteria for representation. Nonetheless their legacy is an eloquent testament to the beauty and achievement of the athlete.
1980	Far Eastern Art Department: Recent Acquisitions (Oriental Acquisitions, 1970-1980)	February 8, 1980–April 20, 1980	East Asian Art	Far Eastern Art Department: Recent Acquisitions is an exhibition of 217 paintings and objects installed in the Special Exhibitions Gallery.
1980	Collab: Masterpieces of Design	February 23, 1980–April 20, 1980	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1980	August Sander: Photographs of an Epoch	March 1, 1980–May 25, 1980	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	August Sander: Photographs of an Epoch is an exhibition of 248 photographs installed in the Special Exhibitions Gallery
1980	The Eighties: The Daring Decades	March 8, 1980–August 3, 1980	Costume and Textiles	The Eighties: The Daring Decadesis an exhibition of 26 costumes and 24 accessories and textiles installed in the Costume and Textiles Gallery.
1980	Brancusi as Photographer	March 22, 1980–May 18, 1980	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Brancusi as Photographer is an exhibition of 73 photographs from the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, installed in the Stieglitz Center Gallery and the small Arensberg Gallery.
1980	Closer Look at Paintings from the Johnson Collection: Related works and Reconstructions	March 29, 1980–August 3, 1980	European Painting before 1900 Johnson Collection
1980	Carl Zigrosser: The Curator as Collector	April 12, 1980–July 6, 1980	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Carl Zigrosser: The Curator as Collector is an exhibition of 190 prints and objects installed in the Print Gallery.
1980	Copley from Boston: Paintings by John Singleton Copley, Furniture and Silver of His Time, from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston	April 19, 1980–June 15, 1980	American Art	Copley from Boston is an exhibition of 42 paintings, furniture, and decorative arts installed in the Special Exhibitions Gallery.
1980	Wedgwood and His Contemporaries	May 3, 1980–September 14, 1980	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	Wedgwood and His Contemporaries is an exhibition of 97 objects installed in the Decorative Arts Gallery
1980	Mexican Art from the Collections	June 7, 1980–August 24, 1980	European Painting before 1900 Johnson Collection	Mexican Art from the Collectionsis an exhibition of 176 paintings, sculptures, prints, and decorative arts installed in the Special Exhibitions Gallery.
1980	Paul Caponigro Retrospective	June 21, 1980–August 17, 1980	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1980	Ars Medica: Selected Works and New Acquisitions	June 25, 1980–August 17, 1980	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Ars Medica: Selected Works and New Acquisitions is an exhibition of 150 prints, drawings, and photographs installed in the Special Exhibition Gallery.
1980	The New Vision: Forty Years of Photography at the Institute of Design	July 12, 1980–October 26, 1980	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The New Vision: Forty Years of Photography at the Institute of Design is an exhibition of over 100 photographs by former students and teachers of the Institute of Design in Chicago. Among the 32 photographers represented in the exhibition are the school's famous mentors and several younger artists whose work matured during the sixties and seventies.
1980	Crosscurrents: French and Italian Neoclassical Drawings and Prints from the Cooper Hewitt Museum	July 19, 1980–August 27, 1980	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Crosscurrents: French and Italian Neoclassical Drawings and Prints from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum is an exhibition of 135 prints and drawings installed in the Print Gallery. The exhibition is circulated by Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and installed in Philadelphia by Ann Percy, Associate Curator for Drawings.
1980	The Roman Forum	August 2, 1980–January 4, 1981	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1980	Footprints of the Buddha: Japanese Buddhist Prints from the American and Japanese Collections	August 23, 1980–October 26, 1980	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The Philadelphia Museum of Art has assembled over 80 Japanese Buddhist woodblock prints for display in Footprints of Buddha, the first exhibition in this country devoted exclusively to this religious art form. The selected prints, on loan from American and Japanese collections, trace the development of Buddhist art in Japan from the 12th to the 20th century.
1980	A Tribute to the Print Club: 65th Anniversary Exhibition	September 13, 1980–November 9, 1980	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1980	Lucas van Leyden	September 13, 1980–November 9, 1980	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1980	Origins of Abstraction	September 27, 1980–January 4, 1981	Modern and Contemporary Art
1980	A Scholar Collects: Selections from the Anthony Morris Clark Bequest	October 2, 1980–January 4, 1981	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The Philadelphia Museum of Art was fortunate to have received in 1978 378 old master drawings, 204 prints, 114 coins, medals, and plaquettes, 24 sculptures, and 13 miscellaneous objets d'art from the estate of the late Anthony Morris Clark. As the leading connoisseur of and specialist in eighteenth-century Roman painting, Anthony Clark assembled the finest collection of the art of that city and period in private hands in America.
1980	Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscape	October 11, 1980–January 18, 1981	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1980	Futurism and the International Avant-Garde	October 26, 1980–January 4, 1981	Modern and Contemporary Art	Futurism and the International Avant-Garde is an exhibition of 134 paintings, drawings, and sculpture installed together with manifestos and archival material in the Special Exhibitions Gallery. An installation of 24 works by Raymond Duchamp-Villon is installed concurrently.
1980	Children’s Clothing 1760–1980	November 8, 1980–April 15, 1981	Costume and Textiles	Costumes from the Museum's collection have been selected for this exhibition to show the main lines of development of children's costume over the past 200 years and also to illustrate the way well-to-do Philadelphia children have been dressed.
1980	Spirit of an American Place: Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz	November 22, 1980–March 29, 1981	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Spirit of an American Place: Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz is an exhibition of 86 photographs installed in the Stieglitz Center Gallery. The Philadelphia Museum of Art has published a special issue of the Museum Bulletin with a checklist.
1980	Sets and Costumes of the Florence Opera: Designs for the Maggio Musicale 1933–1980	November 30, 1980–January 25, 1981	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	Sets and Costumes of the Florence Opera: Designs for the Maggio Musicale, 1933–1980 is an exhibition of 219 drawings and paintings installed in the Print Gallery, and 12 costumes installed on the West Balconies.
1981	American Crafts	January 3, 1981–March 15, 1981
1981	Drawings from van Gogh to Matisse	February 21, 1981–May 10, 1981	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Drawings from van Gogh to Matisse is an exhibition of 106 drawings, watercolors, and collages installed in the Print Gallery.
1981	Manifestations of Shiva	March 29, 1981–June 7, 1981	Indian and Himalayan Art	Manifestations of Shiva is an exhibition of 129 sculptures and 64 paintings installed in the Special Exhibitions Gallery.
1981	The New West: Photographs by Robert Adams	April 25, 1981–July 12, 1981	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Robert Adams is a contemporary master of the photographic medium whose subtle, luminous images provide subjects for contemplation and the possibility for a broadened perspective of the new world or reality which we inhabit. The core of the exhibition is drawn from Adams' portfolio From the Missouri West, including landscapes from Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Arizona, California, Oregon, and Utah.
1981	Venice and the Grand Tour	April 25, 1981–November 1, 1981	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1981	Form in Art	May 15, 1981–June 7, 1981
1981	Mamlulu	May 23, 1981–July 19, 1981
1981	From the Collections: American Themes on European Ceramics	June 1981–	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1981	Picasso from the Collections	June 6, 1981–August 23, 1981	Modern and Contemporary Art	Picasso from the Collections is an exhibition of 22 paintings and sculpture installed in the Twentieth-Century Galleries.
1981	Picasso as Printmaker	June 6, 1981–August 23, 1981	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1981	One Hundred Master Drawings by Picasso	July 11, 1981–August 23, 1981	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The exhibition was drawn from 50 museums and private collections throughout the world, including the new Musée Picasso in Paris, the Museo Picasso in Barcelona, and the artist's heirs. The emphasis is on unfamiliar works, works from important periods, and finished drawings rather than preparatory studies. It is the first major display of Picasso's works on paper since the 1911 exhibition mounted by Alfred Stieglitz in New York.
1981	Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer	August 1, 1981–October 4, 1981	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the most widely respected photographers of the 20th century, has chosen over 100 of his most significant images for this traveling exhibition, which was organized by the International Center of Photography, New York.
1981	English Eighteenth Century Decorative Arts from the Collections	September 1981–	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1981	From the Collections: Griffen, Smith, and Hill Majolica	September 1981–	American Art
1981	Recent Acquisitions of American Decorative Art	September 1981–	American Art
1981	American Presidential China	September 5, 1981–January 31, 1982	American Art	American Presidential China is a collection of official and personal tableware used by presidents from George Washington to Ronald Reagan. The exhibit consists of one hundred objects from a private Philadelphia collection supplemented by pieces lent by Set Charles Moynihan.
1981	A Penny Plain, Tuppence Colored: European Popular Prints	September 12, 1981–November 15, 1981	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1981	American Frontiers: The Photographs of Timothy O’Sullivan	October 2, 1981–January 3, 1982	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Chicago to present the exhibition and publication American Frontiers: The Photographs of Timothy O'Sullivan. The exhibition will include over 200 photographs from the work accomplished during the Civil War, the King and Wheeler expeditions to the American West, and the Selfridge expedition to Panama.
1981	Sir Edwin Landseer	October 25, 1981–January 3, 1982	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1981	Public Pomp and Private Pleasures: French Prints of the Eighteenth Century	December 4, 1981–February 14, 1982	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1981	The Unnatural History of Dragons	December 12, 1981–June 27, 1982	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1981	Marius de Zayas: Conjuror of Souls	December 18, 1981–February 14, 1982	Modern and Contemporary Art
1982	Animals of Japan	January 1982–	East Asian Art
1982	Treasures of Ancient Nigeria	February 21, 1982–April 18, 1982	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	Treasures of Ancient Nigeria, a loan exhibition from the Nigerian National Museum, was organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts and made possible by grants from the Mobil Companies Nigeria, the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
1982	Nigerian Art from the University Museum	February 21, 1982–April 18, 1982	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	of the 19th century and by now has one of the largest collections in the United States. The twenty-seven sculptures that appear in this exhibition of Nigerian Art from the University Museum constitute some of the finest objects in the collection.
1982	Danny Lyon: Pictures from the New World	February 27, 1982–May 2, 1982	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	In 1962 Danny Lyon, armed with a camera, set off like thousands of his contemporaries on a voyage of discovery across America. He was a born wanderer and fearless observer who developed into an extraordinary recorder of the tumultuous events of the 1960s and '70s. This display of some 130 works forms an unusual autobiography of an artist who shows an intense and profound identification with his subjects.
1982	Pertaining to Philadelphia	March 5, 1982–October 20, 1982	Modern and Contemporary Art
1982	Frederick H. Evans: “The Desired Haven”	May 15, 1982–July 18, 1982	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Frederick H. Evans, friend of George Bernard Shaw and Aubrey Beardsley, retired from his successful business as a London bookseller in 1898 to devote himself entirely to photography. His exquisite platinum prints of English and French cathedrals, parish churches, chateaux, woodlands, and landscapes established his lasting reputation as a pure photographer at a time when the manipulated gum print was the accepted medium of the London photographic salons and clubs.
1982	Form in Art: Works by Blind and Partially Sighted Adults	May 21, 1982–June 20, 1982
1982	Thomas Eakins: Artist of Philadelphia	May 29, 1982–August 1, 1982	American Art	Thomas Eakins: Artist of Philadelphia was organized by Darrel Sewell, Curator of American Art. It was supported by grants from the IBM Corporation and The Pew Memorial Trust.
1982	Great Ideas	July 24, 1982–August 15, 1982
1982	From the Collections: Nineteenth Century French Drawings	August 14, 1982–November 28, 1982	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1982	From the Collections: Twentieth Century Artists’ Books	September 11, 1982–October 31, 1982	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Many 20th-century artists have experimented with the book form, which allows them to express their interest in multiples and reach a wider audience. In conjunction with Bookworks: 1982, the international conference of artists, writers, and publishers being held in Philadelphia in October, the Museum has selected nine artists' books which reveal a range of approaches to the artistic medium.
1982	John Cage: A Portrait Series by Robert Mahon	September 11, 1982–October 31, 1982	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	ohn Cage: A Portrait Series by Robert Mahon is an exhibition of 216 photographs by Robert Mahon installed in the Director's Corridor by the artist.
1982	John Cage: Scores and Prints	September 11, 1982–October 31, 1982	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition presents the first comprehensive review of John Cage's scores, print editions, and books, which have added a visual dimension to his international reputation as a composer. Cage's link with the art and thought of Marcel Duchamp makes the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with its great holdings of Duchamp's work, a particularly apt site for this exhibition.
1982	Fraktur Exhibit	October 1982
1982	The Pennsylvania Germans: A Celebration of Their Arts, 1683–1850	October 17, 1982–January 9, 1983	American Art	German-speaking peoples began to arrive on these shores in 1682 with William Penn, drawn by the promise of religious liberty and economic opportunity. Known world-wide as the Pennsylvania Dutch, they brought with them the artistic traditions of such regions as the Palatinate in southern Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Northern Germany, Moravia in Czechoslovakia, and Silesia in Poland. This exhibition brings together over 300 objects selected from the organizing museums and nearly 100 other institutions and private collections.
1982	Pertaining to Philadelphia II	October 29, 1982–August 21, 1983	Modern and Contemporary Art	Pertaining to Philadelphia II is an exhibition of 23 contemporary prints, drawings, and sculptures installed in the Twentieth-Century Art galleries.
1982	American Graphics, 1860–1940, Selected from the Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art	November 20, 1982–January 16, 1983	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition of 115 works drawn from the Museum's permanent collection suggests the full range of artistic approaches found in America over a period of eight decades. Included are etchings, engravings, woodcuts, and lithographs by Edward Hopper, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, John Marin, Rockwell Kent, and other significant printmakers.
1982	Dance in Pennsylvania: The Nation’s First Steps	December 11, 1982–February 20, 1983	Dance in Pennsylvania: The Nation's First Steps was an exhibition of 77 eighteenth- to twentieth-century objects, including drawings, prints, costumes, models, and photographs, installed in the Director's Corridor.
1982	Flora and Fauna in Oriental Art	December 1982–	East Asian Art
1983	From the Collections: Paintings by Jan Steen	January 15, 1983–July 3, 1983	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	The Museum and Johnson Collections own ten paintings by or attributed to the famous 17th-century Dutch painter Jan Steen, comprising the wealthiest collection outside Holland.
1983	Minor White, Photographs	February 5, 1983–April 3, 1983	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Minor White (1908–1976), photographer, theoretician, editor, critic, and teacher, was one of the most influential American photographers from the 1950s until his death. Some 100 of White's photographs from the Museum's collection have been selected for display, arranged, as the artist intended, in sequences so that individual prints borrow significance from each other to make a unified statement.
1983	Tibet: The Sacred Realm, Photographs 1880–1950	March 20, 1983–May 22, 1983	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition of some 180 photographs, most of which have never before been on public view, give a rare glimpse of the dramatic landscape of Tibet, the massive forts and monasteries that dominate its towns, its varied peoples, and the Buddhist rituals which form the basis of their spiritual life.
1983	Julius Bloch: Portrait of the Artist	March 20, 1983–April 29, 1983	Modern and Contemporary Art	Julius Bloch (1888–1966) had a natural empathy for working people, whom he captured in moving portraits. He approached the subject of a stevedore, a prisoner, a factory worker, or a dispossessed farmer with the dignity and formality usually reserved for commissioned portraits. Julius Bloch: Portrait of the Artist presents approximately forty paintings, drawings, and prints that survey the range of the artist's career from 1912 to the early 1950s.
1983	The Friends of the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Two Decades of Publications	April 1983–	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1983	Impressions of the Front: Woodcuts of the Sino-Japanese War, 1894–1895	April 23, 1983–June 26, 1983	East Asian Art	The war between Japan and China over the control of Korea, while lasting less than a year, was oneof the first wars to be covered by reporters, whose daily dispatches created a huge demand for war pictures. Japanese artists responded by producing over 3,000 wood-block prints at the rate of about ten a day. This exhibition presents 87 wood-block prints drawn from the Museum's permanent collection.
1983	100 Years of Acquisitions	May 7, 1983–July 3, 1983	American Art	To celebrate the centennial of the Women's Committee, the Museum will draw upon its vast collections to present a visual record of its growth during the last century. The exhibition will consist of 100 objects, one acquired each year.
1983	Form in Art: Works by Blind and Partially Sighted Adults	May 20, 1983–June 19, 1983
1983	Cezanne in Philadelphia Collections	June 19, 1983–August 21, 1983	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	Philadelphia has long been a center for the collecting of works by Paul Cézanne (1839–1906). The Barnes Foundation in nearby Merion houses the most extensive gathering of his works in the world. The Museum will gather together its holdings and add to them some ten paintings and ten watercolors from local private collections. The exhibition, while not large in scale, will present the artist in all the variety of his subjects—figures, portraits, still lifes, and landscapes.
1983	Pennsylvania Modern: Charles Demuth of Lancaster	July 16, 1983–September 11, 1983	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Pennsylvania Modern: Charles Demuth of Lancaster is an exhibition of 38 paintings, drawings, and watercolors installed in the Prints and Drawings Gallery.
1983	Motion, Time, Pattern, Sequence	September 1, 1983–November 1, 1983	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1983	Pertaining to Philadelphia III: Motion and Sequence	October 1–30, 1983	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Pertaining to Philadelphia III: Motion and Sequence is an exhibition of 36 nineteenth- and twentieth- century photographs installed in the Twentieth-Century Art galleries.
1983	Particulars: Selections from the Miller-Plummer Collection of Photography	October 1, 1983–November 27, 1983	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Particulars: Selections from the Miller-Plummer Collection of Photography is an exhibition of 168 nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs installed in the Prints and Drawings Gallery.
1983	Design Since 1945	October 16, 1983–January 8, 1984	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	Design Since 1945 is an exhibition of 418 objects (appliances, ceramics, glass, furniture, lighting, metalwork, plastics, textiles, and wood) installed in the Special Exhibition Galleries.
1983	Embroidered Pictures and Samplers	October 22, 1983–January 3, 1984	Costume and Textiles
1983	ABU DADA: Jean Crotti & Suzanne Duchamp, 1915–1922	November 19, 1983–January 29, 1984	Modern and Contemporary Art	Tabu Dada: Jean Crotti and Suzanne Duchamp, 1915–1922 is an exhibition of 69 paintings, drawings, and watercolors, supplemented with photographs and documents, installed in the Twentieth-Century Art galleries
1983	Paintings from Siena	December 3, 1983–May 6, 1984	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	From the Collections: Paintings from Siena is an exhibition of 24 fourteenth- and fifteenth-century paintings installed in the John G. Johnson Collection Special Exhibition Gallery.
1984	Henry Tanner	January 23, 1984–July 15, 1984	American Art	Henry Tanner is an exhibition of 8 paintings and 1 drawing lent by Mrs. Sadie T. M. Alexander installed in the American Collections galleries.
1984	Pertaining to Philadelphia IV	February 11, 1984–	Modern and Contemporary Art	Pertaining to Philadelphia: Part IVis an exhibition of 22 drawings, prints, paintings, and sculptures installed in the Twentieth-Century Art galleries.
1984	Selections from the Whitman Sampler Collections	February 11, 1984–April 29, 1984	Costume and Textiles	Selections from the Whitman Sampler Collection is an exhibition of 39 American and European seventeenth- to twentieth-century samplers installed in the Director's Corridor.
1984	Dutch Tiles	March 18, 1984–May 13, 1984	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	The natural world of animals, flowers, and landscapes, the mythological realm of sea creatures, scenes of everyday life, and stories from the Bible all found their way into 17th-and 18th-century Dutch homes on colorful ceramic wall tiles. This exhibition presents some 1500 tiles dating from 1570 to 1850.
1984	Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting	March 18, 1984–May 13, 1984	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	As no other people before them, the 17th-Century Dutch left a detailed visual record of their society, land, and possessions. The richness and beauty of Dutch genre painting—scenes of everyday life—is revealed in 120 paintings lent by museums and private collections in Europe and the United States, the first major exhibition of the subject ever mounted in this country.
1984	Dutch Paintings from the Collection	March 18, 1984–July 30, 1984	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	Dutch Paintings from the Collections is an exhibition of 43 seventeenth-century genre paintings installed in the John G. Johnson Collection Study Gallery.
1984	Form in Art	May 18, 1984–July 18, 1984
1984	John Marin: Prints and Watercolors from the Collection	June 23, 1984–August 26, 1984	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	John Marin (1870–1953), perhaps best known for his innovative city and seascapes in watercolor, first gained recognition for his accomplishments as a graphic artist. Some 60 etchings and 27 watercolors will be displayed in this exhibit.
1984	Beyond a Portrait: Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz and Dorothy Norman	June 23, 1984–October 28, 1984	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Perhaps no other individual in the first half of this century did as much to foster a truly American expression of the modern world, to encourage and promote other artists who shared his vision, as Alfred Stieglitz. Dorothy Norman was one visitor who happened on his gallery and they began a deep, enduring companionship which found expression in their work. This exhibition of some 60 photographs covers the years between their first meeting in 1927 and Stieglitz's death in 1946.
1984	Philadelphians and the China Trade, 1784–1844	July 1, 1984–September 23, 1984	East Asian Art	To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the sailing of the first American ship to China, the Museum will examine Philadelphia's position in the trade through an exhibition of over 300 objects which were commissioned by Philadelphians or which arrived on ships at the city's port. These represent some of the finest objects produced by Chinese artists for the American market.
1984	The Canton Collection: Ships, Captains, and Cargoes	July 1, 1984–September 16, 1984	American Art
1984	From the Collections: Painting by John Constable	August 4, 1984–January 6, 1985	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	From the Collections: Paintings by John Constable features 15 paintings spanning the English landscape artist's career, drawn from the Museum's holdings and those of the John G. Johnson Collection, together one of the richest collections of Constable's work in the country.
1984	Old Master Drawings, 1550–1850	September 15, 1984–January 30, 1985	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition celebrates the recent acquisition by the Philadelphia Museum of Art of the John S. Phillips Collection of old master drawings from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
1984	Ansel Adams	September 22, 1984–April 28, 1985	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition features 29 photographs, including Adams’ celebrated images of the American West, shown as a memorial to this master photographer.
1984	Jonathan Borofsky	October 7, 1984–December 2, 1984	Modern and Contemporary Art	Jonathan Borofsky surveys at mid-career the work of one of the most eclectic contemporary American artists, who, while working in a highly personal fashion, creates an art of universal recognition.
1984	The Golden Age of British Photography, 1839–1900	October 27, 1984–January 6, 1985	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The Golden Age of British Photography, 1839–1900 features 240 extraordinary 19th-century photographs, many of them newly discovered and previously unexhibited, by such photographers as William Henry Fox Talbot, Roger Fenton, John Murray, Oscar G. Rejlander, and Julia Margaret Cameron.
1984	All American: Photographs by Burk Uzzle	November 17, 1984–May 19, 1985	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition features 77 photographs by this irreverent social documentarian.
1984	Dreadful Fire!: The Burning of the Houses of Parliament	November 23, 1984–January 6, 1985	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	The first reunion of a pair of masterpieces, one from the Museum's collection and one belonging to the Cleveland Museum of Art, painted by J.M.W. Turner in response to the disastrous fire in the Houses of Parliament in 1834, shown with watercolor studies and documents.
1985	Pertaining to Philadelphia V: Sidney Goodman	January 5, 1985–May 12, 1985	Modern and Contemporary Art	This exhibition features recent paintings by Sidney Goodman on the subject of the Four Elements—earth, water, fire, and air—with a fifth canvas in the series representing the human component.
1985	From the Collections: Spanish Gothic Painting	January 19, 1985–July 14, 1985	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	Drawn from an area of particular strength in the collections, this exhibition features 15 paintings giving full expression to the geographic and cultural diversity of 15th-century Spain and its interpretations of the international Gothic style.
1985	Edgar Degas: The Painter as Printmaker	February 17, 1985–April 14, 1985	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition for the first time surveys the full range of Edgar Degas's etchings and lithographs, including the numerous preparatory drawings, monotypes, and working proofs that record his constant and restless search to push printmaking to new frontiers of expressiveness.
1985	Edgar Degas in Philadelphia Collections	February 17, 1985–April 14, 1985	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	Edgar Degas, unlike his Impressionist peers, had little interest in landscape painting, choosing instead to concentrate on figures in contemporary society. The Museum has assembled some 25 paintings, pastels, sculptures, and drawings from its permanent collection and from private lenders in the Philadelphia area to provide a rich comparative context for the major traveling exhibition of his prints.
1985	Mary Cassatt and Philadelphia	February 17, 1985–April 14, 1985	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	This exhibition confirms Mary Cassatt's important artistic achievements and also examines her role in encouraging Philadelphians to acquire Impressionist paintings at a time when critical disparagement was widespread.
1985	Fleeting Moments: Japanese Prints from the Collection	March 23, 1985–May 19, 1985	East Asian Art
1985	Marc Chagall	May 12, 1985–July 21, 1985	Modern and Contemporary Art	The first major retrospective of Chagall's work to be mounted in this country in many decades, this exhibition emphasizes the profoundly Russian aspects of his approach both to style and content and explores the tragic side of his art which has often been overlooked.
1985	Form in Art: Works by Blind and Partially Sighted Adults	May 24, 1985–July 21, 1985
1985	Contagion (Ars Medica — Kyoto, Japan)	May 29, 1985–June 30, 1985	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1985	Bill Brandt: Behind the Camera, 1928–1983	June 15, 1985–September 22, 1985	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Bill Brandt: Behind the Camera, 1928–1983 features approximately 140 photographs organized around his major series of photographs, beginning with European street scenes and progressing to his unique record of English life between the wars, images of wartime London, portraits of artists and intellectuals, romantic landscapes of Britain, and his pictorial exploration of the nude.
1985	From the Collections: Italian Renaissance Portraits	August 10, 1985–October 27, 1985	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	This exhibition features eleven paintings and one portrait bust, including works by Dosso Dossi, Bronzino, Tintoretto, and Titian.
1985	Ars Medica: Art, Medicine, and the Human Condition	September 22, 1985–December 1, 1985	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1985	From the Collections: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Medicine and Pharmacy Posters	September 28, 1985–February 2, 1986	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1985	W. Eugene Smith: “Let Truth Be the Prejudice”	October 19, 1985–January 5, 1986	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	W. Eugene Smith (1918–1978) created images so powerful that they have shaped our perception of recent history. His photographic essays—whether chronicling the daily cares of an individual nurse-midwife, the plight of lepers in an African village, or the many elements which comprise a modern industrial city-established a new mode of in-depth, concerned photojournalism.
1985	Unknown Territory: Photographs by Ray K. Metzker	October 20, 1985–January 5, 1986	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The work of Ray Metzker, a distinguished contemporary photographer long associated with Philadelphia, has been concentrated into over a dozen extended series of images, each radically different from one another. He has worked primarily in urban areas, drawn to ordinary people going about their day-to-day business.
1985	A Tribute to J.S. Bach (1685–1750)	November 23, 1985–January 26, 1986	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	In celebration of the tercentenary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), the Museum will present a small exhibition devoted to the composer and his times.

Year	Title	Dates	Department	Additional Info
1986	Dutch Porcelain	1986	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1986	Painted Delight: Indian Paintings from Philadelphia Collections	January 26, 1986–April 20, 1986	Indian and Himalayan Art	During three centuries of princely patronage, Indian artists produced luminous paintings for books and albums which continue to enchant viewers today. Painted Delight: Indian Paintings from Philadelphia Collectionsincludes some 140 masterworks of the Mughal and Rajput schools, many of which have never before been exhibited or published.
1986	From Mantenga to Goya: Selections from the Muriel and Philip Berman Gift of European Old Master Prints	February 1, 1986–March 29, 1986	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition celebrates a noteworthy event in the history of the Museum: the acquisition of an encyclopedic collection of European prints, made possible by the extraordinary generosity of Muriel and Philip Berman.
1986	Benjamin West in Pennsylvania Collections	March 1, 1986–April 13, 1986	American Art	This exhibition consisted of 37 paintings and 50 drawings assembled from public and private collections in Pennsylvania in celebration of the publication by Yale University Press of the catalog Paintings of Benjamin West, by Helmut von Erffa and Allen Staley.
1986	Pertaining to Philadelphia VI: Works on Paper from the Seventies and Eighties	March 9, 1986–May 6, 1986	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1986	Richard Hamilton: Image and Process	April 19, 1986–June 22, 1986	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	More than works in any other medium, prints enable a viewer to explore the creative process leading to a finished work of art. Successive stages of a print—working proofs, states, and pen-and-ink studies—permit us to follow the artist's thoughts and to scrutinize his working methods. The work of Richard Hamilton (born 1922), structured on the additive principle of collage, is particularly suited to such penetrating analysis, as demonstrated by this exhibition of eighteen images seen in various states of their development.
1986	Form in Art: Works by Blind and Partially Sighted Adults	May 16, 1986–July 6, 1986
1986	Diego Rivera: A Retrospective	June 1, 1986–August 10, 1986	American Art	This exhibition celebrates the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Mexican-born Diego Rivera (1886–1957), whose bold and powerful paintings brilliantly convey his passionate concern for social and political issues, drawing upon Mexican history, and celebrating peasants and workers.
1986	Diego Rivera and His Mexico: Through the Camera’s Eye	June 1, 1986–August 10, 1986
1986	American Naïve Paintings from the Garbisch Collection	August 1, 1986–October 5, 1986	American Art
1986	Black Sun: The Eyes of Four	August 9, 1986–October 26, 1986	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Black Sun: The Eyes of Fourpresents four artists whose works form a vital core of post-war Japanese photography: Eikoh Hosoe, Shomei Tomatsu, Masahisa Fukase, and Daido Moriyama. The 160 photographs chosen for the exhibition range from the metaphoric to the documentary, from the presentation of the horrific legacy of Nagasaki to visually dense cityscapes.
1986	Philadelphia Collects: Art Since 1940	September 28, 1986–November 30, 1986	Modern and Contemporary Art
1986	From the Collections: British Drawings and Watercolors	October 11, 1986–January 11, 1987	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1986	Martha Graham: Sixty Years in Photographs	October 11, 1986–November 30, 1986	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	A first-time exhibit of prints of Martha Graham and her dance company will be on exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art October 11–November 30, 1986.The exhibit will be a part of a tribute to Martha Graham on the sixtieth anniversary of her dance company, in conjunction with their performances at Annenberg Center November 12–15.
1986	From the Collections: British Paintings	October 14, 1986–January 18, 1987	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1986	Modern Jewelry 1964–1984: The Helen Williams Drutt Collection	November 1, 1986–February 1, 1987	American Art	Modern Jewelry 1964–84: The Helen Williams Drutt Collection, an exhibition of more than 150 pieces by 75 artists from the United States, Europe, and Japan, will be on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from November 1, 1986 to February 1, 1987. Contemporary work in jewelry, like other craft arts, has enjoyed a particularly innovative period over the past 25 years. This exhibition traces the creative evolution of several key figures in the field.
1986	African Sculpture from the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania	November 23, 1986–February 8, 1987	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	African Sculpture from The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania is an exhibition of 88 masks, sculptures, magic figures, and objects of everyday use. The exhibition is grouped into sections according to three principal factors that underlie the creation of much of African art: the transmission of laws and traditions to the young, communication with the spiritual world, and material evidence of wealth and prestige.
1986	Diane Arbus: Magazine Work 1960–1971	December 6, 1986–January 18, 1987	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Diane Arbus: Magazine Work 1960–1971 is an exhibition of over 60 photographs originally published in Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, London Sunday Times Magazine, Saturday Evening Post and other mass circulation periodicals.
1987	Hendrik Goltzius (1558–1617); Virtuoso Printmaker	January 10, 1987–March 22, 1987	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	Hendrik Goltzius was the leading Dutch printmaker of his day. His fame was assured not only by his own prolific output of almost 400 prints and his remarkable capacity for stylistic and technical innovation but also by over 500 works produced by generations of followers. His remarkable 25-year career as a graphic artist is represented here by over 70 of his finest engravings and woodcuts.
1987	Design 1900–1940: From the Collections	January 31, 1987–December 9, 1987	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	Design 1900–1940: From the Collections consists of an installation of over 50 objects in the South Auditorium Gallery.
1987	European Sculpture and Decorative Art: Acquisitions by David DuBon, 1958–1985	March 3, 1987–September 30, 1987	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	David DuBon joined the staff of the Philadelphia Museum of Art as Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts in 1958 and became Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Decorative Arts in 1966. He retired in 1985 but continued his affiliation with this institution as a Consulting Curator until his death in 1986.
1987	The Quest for Eternity: Chinese Ceramic Sculpture from the People’s Republic of China	March 22, 1987–May 24, 1987	East Asian Art	Philadelphia will be the only East Coast showing of The Quest for Eternity: Chinese Ceramic Sculpture from the People's Republic of China, which is the first to be mounted in the West tracing the full evolution of Chinese ceramic sculpture from the Neolithic period (beginning c. 8000 B.C.) to the end of the Ming dynasty (1644 A.D.).
1987	Twelve Photographers Look at US	April 11, 1987–July 5, 1987	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Twelve Photographers Look at USis being planned as part of We the People 200, Philadelphia's year-long celebration of the Bicentennial of the Constitution. The exhibition will show the work of twelve contemporary photographers who photograph the American people in the context of present-day American society.
1987	Pertaining to Philadelphia VII: Videodisc Installation by Peter D’Agostino	April 18, 1987–July 5, 1987	Modern and Contemporary Art
1987	Form in Art: Works by Blind and Partially Sighted Adults	May 15, 1987–June 12, 1987
1987	Claude Monet: Philadelphia	June 20, 1987–August 30, 1987	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	Claude Monet: Philadelphiapresents 30 paintings from the Museum and private collectors in the Philadelphia area for a dazzling summer exhibition.
1987	Masterpieces in the McIlhenny Collection	June 26, 1987–August 31, 1987
1987	Federal Philadelphia, 1785–1825: The Athens of the Western World	July 5, 1987–September 20, 1987	American Art	The high level of artistic achievement which occurred in Philadelphia in the years following the American Revolution will be revealed in a major exhibition of furniture, silver, costumes, paintings, and architectural elements at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
1987	Recent Acquisitions of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Part I: The Twentieth Century	July 15, 1987–September 20, 1987	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1987	Pertaining to Philadelphia VIII: “Rockin’” by Maurie Kerrigan	August 8, 1987–October 4, 1987	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Artist Maurie Kerrigan provided rocking chairs for visitors to enjoy the oil pastels and "sound drawings" in her Rockin' installation, the eighth display in the Pertaining to Philadelphia series.
1987	The Arts of Edo	September 1987–July 1988	East Asian Art
1987	Apropos of Marcel Duchamp 1887/1987	October 1, 1987–January 3, 1988	Modern and Contemporary Art	A major installation of works by Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), mounted in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the artist's birth, Apropos of Marcel Duchamp 1887/1987 reveals the depth of his creative genius.
1987	The Captured Imagination: Drawings by Joan Miro from the Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona	October 3, 1987–November 29, 1987	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The great modern Spanish master Joan Miró (1893–1983) has often been characterized as a spontaneous and childlike Surrealist whose paintings emerged unrehearsed and fully formed. Over 150 works on paper never before seen in this country dispel that myth and furnish proof that reflection, rather than impulse, informed his work.
1987	Miró in the Philadelphia Collections	October 3, 1987–November 29, 1987	Modern and Contemporary Art	Miró in Philadelphia Collectionspresents a splendid group of paintings, drawings, and sculpture from the Museum and local private collections.
1987	Paul Klee in Philadelphia Collections	October 3, 1987–January 3, 1988	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Paul Klee in Philadelphia Collections draws from the Museum's unusually strong collection of works on paper by Paul Klee, most of which are from his fertile Bauhaus period.
1987	Richard Misrach: The American Desert	October 24, 1987–January 3, 1988	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Richard Misrach (born 1949), one of the bright talents of the new generation of color photographs in the United States, has been "chasing the light" in western deserts since 1982, recording fires and flooded landscapes, the land of the space shuttle, roads, train tracks, and other aspects of wilderness imprinted with the signs and artifacts of human habitation.
1987	Philadelphia Craft Show	November 4–8, 1987	American Art
1987	The Henry P. McIlhenny Collection	November 22, 1987–January 17, 1988	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	It is rare for a single gift to markedly transform a museum's collection. The receipt of the bequest of the Henry P. McIlhenny Collection, one of the finest private collections assembled in this country during this century, is such an event.
1987	Henry P. McIlhenny: Photographs by Gloria Braggiotti Etting	November 22, 1987–January 31, 1988	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1987	Contemporary American Crafts from the Collection	December 23, 1987–	American Art
1987	From the Collections: The Hague School	December 23, 1987–November 20, 1988	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	The group of Dutch artists active in and around the Hague from about 1870 until after the turn of the century were drawn to that small city, surrounded by woodland and close to the seashore, because it remained relatively untouched by industrialization.
1988	Recent Acquisitions, II: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs before 1900	January 30, 1988–March 27, 1988	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	It is rare for a single gift to markedly transform a museum's collection. The receipt of the bequest of the Henry P. McIlhenny Collection, one of the finest private collections assembled in this country during this century, is such an event.
1988	Anselm Kiefer	March 6, 1988–May 1, 1988	Modern and Contemporary Art	The first Anselm Kiefer retrospective to tour the United States was jointly organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago, followed by exhibitions in Los Angeles and New York. Mark Rosenthal, Curator of Twentieth Century Art, co-curated the exhibition with A. James Speyer and Neal Benezra of Chicago, selecting approximately 70 works, ranging from painting and sculpture to books and photography.
1988	New Art on Paper: Acquired with Funds from the Hunt Manufacturing Co.	April 16, 1988–July 3, 1988	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	New Art on Paper: The Hunt Manufacturing Co. Collection was the culmination of an eight-year grant program from Hunt which allowed the Museum to acquire “adventurous and risk-taking” work on paper by contemporary artists.
1988	Fans from the Collection	April 23, 1988–July 24, 1988	Costume and Textiles	This exhibition displays fans from the Museum's collection dating back to the fifteenth century to present day.
1988	Form in Art: Works by Blind and Partially Sighted Adults	May 13, 1988–June 12, 1988
1988	Cubism	May 23, 1988
1988	Jasper Johns: Venice Biennale	June 1988–September 1988
1988	Masters of the 17th Century Dutch Landscape Painting	June 5, 1988–July 31, 1988	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	Masters of 17th-Century Dutch Landscape Painting, drawn from public and private collections in eleven countries, revealed the consummate skill of Jacob van Ruisdael, Aelbert Cuyp, Rembrandt, and other artists of Holland's "Golden Age."
1988	Picasso, Braque, Leger, Gris: Drawings from the Douglas Cooper Collection	June 16, 1988–July 31, 1988	Modern and Contemporary Art	The Philadelphia Museum of Art presented the only American showing of Picasso, Braque, Léger, Gris: Drawings from the Douglas Cooper Collection, a comprehensive group of works by the Cubist masters.
1988	The Fairmount Waterworks, 1812–1911	July 23, 1988–September 25, 1988	American Art	The Fairmount Waterworks, 1812–1911, is an exhibition organized by Darrel Sewell of some 150 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints of the celebrated Philadelphia architectural and engineering landmark.
1988	Flowers for Every Season	September 1988–July 1989	East Asian Art	The delicate nature of works on paper and silk necessitates the frequent rotation of paintings. The current installation features the art of flower painting. Through the centuries, Chinese artists have delighted in depicting the flowers of every season.
1988	The Arts of Tea	September 1988–July 1989	East Asian Art	Sixty years ago, in the fall of 1928, a shipment of crates arrived here from Japan containing the elements of a teahouse. The teahouse and its waiting room had originally been built in 1917 by a Japanese architect for his private residence in Tokyo. It would be nearly thirty years before the plan of another architect, then director of this museum, Fiske Kimball, was completed, with the opening of the Museum's Far Eastern wing in 1957.
1988	Art Nouveau in Munich: Masters of Jugendstil	September 25, 1988–November 27, 1988	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	The first German exhibition of decorative arts in the "new" style was held in the Munich Glaspalast in 1897. Critics immediately recognized the importance of this exhibition and praised the "Munich accomplishment" as the "way of the future."
1988	Jasper Johns: Work Since 1974	October 23, 1988–January 8, 1989	Modern and Contemporary Art	The Philadelphia Museum of Art has organized a survey of recent paintings and drawings by Jasper Johns, one of the most celebrated and influential artists working today, for the United States Pavilion of the 43rd Venice Biennale.
1988	Pietro Testa, 1612–1650: Prints and Drawings	November 5, 1988–January 1, 1989	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Pietro Testa, one of the most remarkable artists in the circle of Nicolas Poussin, was an enigmatic and melancholic painter active in Rome from about 1630 until his early death in 1650. During his short career he became famous for the inventiveness and technical brio of his prints and drawings, which constitute his most important artistic contribution. Following the seventeenth-century, however, Testa's reputation suffered a decline. The exhibition and catalogue should reestablish Testa's rightful reputation among the premier draftsmen and etchers of Baroque Italy.
1988	John G. Johnson: Collector of Contemporary Art	December 17, 1988–March 26, 1989	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	This exhibition presents a selection from the paintings in Johnson's catalogue of 1892 and traces the first decade of his illustrious career as an art collector. The fourteen artists represented were all active in the 1880s and 1890s. Works from eleven countries are exhibited, showing Johnson's breadth of vision, while the inclusion of three French paintings reflects his preference.
1989	A Visual Testimony: Judaica from the Vatican Library	January 29, 1989–April 2, 1989	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The fascinating literary tradition which has linked the Jewish and Catholic faiths throughout the ages is demonstrated by an exhibition of 56 manuscripts from the Vatican Library. It is the first major public showing of the Vatican Library's Hebrew illuminations, chosen from the Library's collection of 801 Hebrew manuscripts.
1989	Selection on African-American Works from the Collections	February 1, 1989–April 9, 1989	Modern and Contemporary Art	Selection of African-American Works from the Collections is a show mounted by the Department of Twentieth Century Art in honor of Black History month.
1989	Robert Adams: To Make It Home—Photographs of the American West, 1965–1986	February 19, 1989–April 16, 1989	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition of approximately 250 photographs celebrates Robert Adams' mastery in recording the changing appearance as well as the enduring qualities of the American landscape.
1989	The Charlotte Dorrance Wright Collection from the Philadelphia Museum of Art	March 17, 1989–April 19, 1989; August 29, 1989–December 27, 1989	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1989	Twenty-Five Years of Gifts from the Friends of the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Prints Drawings, and Photographs	March 18, 1989–June 4, 1989	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This display is part of a year-long celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Friends of the Museum, who raise funds for the acquisition of works of art for the Museum's collections. Many of the approximately 40 prints, drawings, and photographs in the exhibitions are 20th century.
1989	The Sadelers: Engravers from the Golden Age of Antwerp and Prague	April 15, 1989–July 9, 1989	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition features Flemish engravers, Jan, Raphael, and Aegidius Sadeler, who were prominent figures in the world of prints and book publishing in the late 16th century.
1989	Robert Adam and Kendleston: The Making of a Neo-Classical Masterpiece	April 22, 1989–July 2, 1989	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition, among the first ever to be devoted to a single country house, chronicles the designing of one of Great Britain's key monuments of Neoclassical architecture. Kedleston, the country seat in Derby, was largely designed by Britain's most distinguished eighteenth-century architect, Robert Adam (1728–1792).
1989	Contemporary Photographs: Recent Acquisitions	April 29, 1989–July 30, 1989	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1989	Form in Art: Works by Blind and Partially Sighted Adults	May 13, 1989–June 12, 1989
1989	Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection	May 21, 1989–September 17, 1989	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	This extraordinary collection of paintings by the leading artists of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism—Manet, Monet, Renoir, Morisot, Degas, Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin, Cézanne, Vuillard—will have its first public showing at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
1989	Paul Cezanne: Two Sketchbooks	May 21, 1989–September 17, 1989	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1989	American Prints of the 1970’s	June 20, 1989–September 3, 1989	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1989	Theme and Variation: Japanese Design Motifs	September 1989–July 1990	East Asian Art	Japanese art is distinguished by the inventiveness and style of its traditional design motifs. This installation features art in all media from all periods to provide a sampling of the Japanese genius for decorative style.
1989	Jasper Johns, “Between the Clock and the Bed”: Preparatory Stages for the Lithograph	September 7, 1989–December 31, 1989	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1989	Building the City Beautiful: The Benjamin Franklin Parkway and the Philadelphia Museum of Art	September 9, 1989–November 26, 1989	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Between 1871 and 1929 Philadelphia planned and substantially executed a grand scheme to build a broad Parkway. The Philadelphia Museum of Art still houses 170 architectural drawings that document Philadelphia's important contribution to the "City Beautiful" movement, tracing the development of the Parkway (Philadelphia's "Champ-Elysee") as the intended site of major cultural and commercial monuments which literally culminated in the building of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, completed in 1928.
1989	Dorrance Collection	September 28, 1989–October 4, 1989	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1989	As Pieces Here to Pieces Join: American Appliqué Quilts, 1800–1900	October 19, 1989–December 31, 1989	Costume and Textiles	This group of fine, nineteenth-century appliqué quilts, many of them from the Philadelphia area, has never been the subject of a specific study, and several are now exhibited for the first time. The exhibition coincides with the one hundredth annual meeting of the American Folklore Society, which occurs in Philadelphia.
1989	Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray	October 22, 1989–January 7, 1990	Modern and Contemporary Art	Over 250 works in all media traced the career of the artist, who was born in Philadelphia, and a lively program of lectures, films, and performances celebrated the spirit of the pioneer of Dada and Surrealism.
1989	From the Collections: Rubens and the Oil Sketch	November 4, 1989–February 21, 1990	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	The Philadelphia Museum of Art is fortunate to be able to show many aspects of the protean genius that was Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), one of the artistic giants of the seventeenth century. In addition to the splendid Constantine tapestries woven after designs by Rubens (and Pietro da Cortona) that surround the Great Stair Hall, Ruben's impressive Prometheus Bound is displayed in one of the second-floor painting galleries. The focus of the present exhibition, however, is on an earlier stage in Ruben's creative process, one in which he formulated his compositional ideas—the oil sketch.
1989	Early 20th Century Works from the Collection	November 20, 1989–January 8, 1990	Modern and Contemporary Art
1989	Etching in France, 1850–1900: The Art of the Entrepreneur and the Painter-Etcher	December 16, 1989–February 11, 1990	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1989	Nineteenth-Century French Photographs from the Collection	December 16, 1989–February 11, 1990	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs

Year	Title	Dates	Department	Additional Info
1990	Liberty Belle Cape from “The Honeymoon Project” by Miralda	January 10, 1990–February 4, 1990	Modern and Contemporary Art	Miralda's Honeymoon Project celebrates the 500th anniversary of Columbus' voyage to the New World through a series of installations, performances, and exhibitions happening around the world and based upon the theme of the symbolic courtship and marriage of the Statue of Liberty to the Columbus Column in Barcelona's harbor.
1990	African-American Art from the Collections	January 20, 1990–April 1, 1990	Modern and Contemporary Art
1990	Figure Drawings from the Collection	January 27, 1990–April 15, 1990	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1990	Fabric and Fashion: A Decade of Acquisitions	February 11, 1990–March 25, 1990	Costume and Textiles	During the years 1979 to 1989, the Costume and Textiles Department made over three hundred acquisitions by gift and purchase. Approximately thirty to forty of the finest of these will be included in the exhibition, which will illustrate the depth and richness of the collections.
1990	Josef Sudek, Poet of Prague: Photographs 1911–1976	March 3, 1990–May 6, 1990	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1990	Contemporary Crafts	March 21,1990–June 20, 1990	American Art
1990	From the Collection: Designs of the 1950s	April 1, 1990–October 14, 1990	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1990	Contemporary Philadelphia Artists: A Juried Exhibition	April 22, 1990–July 8, 1990	Modern and Contemporary Art	The Philadelphia Museum of Art takes pride and pleasure in the organization of a major juried exhibition of works in a variety of media by Philadelphia area artists. This is one of three exhibitions sponsored by Philadelphia Art Now, a three-year program funded by The William Penn Foundation to increase the visibility of area artists.
1990	Images of Benjamin Franklin	May 5, 1990–September 23, 1990	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Images of Franklin is a small exhibition drawn from the Museum's collections of portraits of Philadelphia's most famous citizen. The exhibition is presented in connection with the city-wide commemoration this year of the 200th anniversary of Franklin's death in 1790.
1990	Form in Art: Works by Blind and Partially Sighted Adults	May 11, 1990–July 1, 1990
1990	Legacy in Light: Photographic Treasures from Philadelphia Area Public Collections	May 26, 1990–August 12, 1990	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Legacy in Light: Photographic Treasures from Philadelphia Area Public Collections, organized by The Photography Sesquicentennial Project, draws from the literally hundreds of institutional photography collections in the Delaware Valley.
1990	Children’s Costumes and Accoutrements from the 19th Century	July 23, 1990–Summer 1991	Costume and Textiles
1990	Japanese Buddhist Art	August 1990–August 1991	East Asian Art	The great Asian religion of Buddhism reached Japan in several successive waves from the continent. Japanese historical records describe the arrival of Buddhist texts and artifacts in Japan in 552, brought by an embassy from the Korean kingdom of Paekche. As with later influxes of Buddhist teaching from the mainland, it was the Buddhist art that had the greatest impact on Japanese culture.
1990	Selections from the Ars Medica Collection	August 5, 1990–October 21, 1990	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1990	Renoir: The Great Bathers	September 9, 1990–November 25, 1990	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	Renoir: The Great Bathers is on display from September 9 through November 25, 1990. The exhibition, organized by Christopher Riopelle, Associate Curator of European Painting before 1900, includes over fifty paintings, drawings, and sculptures by Renoir. These works provide a survey of the artist's career, and specifically focus on Renoir's art of the 1880s
1990	European Master Prints, 1900–1940	September 22, 1990–November 18, 1990	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1990	Eighteenth-Century French Silver from the Collection of Rodolphe and Williamina Meyer de Schauensee	September 29, 1990–January 20, 1991
1990	Francesco Clemente: Three Worlds	October 21, 1990–December 23, 1990	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Francesco Clemente: Three Worlds brings together more than 100 works on paper—watercolors, pastels, gouaches, folding screens, and books—by the contemporary Italian artist Francesco Clemente
1990	Contemporary American Crafts	November 7, 1990–March 22, 1991	American Art
1990	Drawings by Auguste Rodin	November 10, 1990–February 17, 1991	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	To honor the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great French Romantic sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840–1917), the Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition of drawings by Rodin. Philadelphia is fortunate in being the repository of a major collection of works by Rodin (second only to that of the Musée Rodin in Paris) which was formed by the movie-theater mogul and philanthropist Jules Mastbaum.
1990	Park House Christmas Tours	November 30, 1990–December 9, 1990	American Art
1990	Emmet Gowin: Photographs	December 8, 1990–February 24, 1991	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Emmet Gowin is unquestionably one of the master photographic printmakers working today. This retrospective exhibition of 120 photographs will survey Gowin's career
1990	American Modernism: Paintings from the Collection	December 15, 1990–February 8, 1991	Modern and Contemporary Art
1991	Henry Ossawa Tanner	January 20, 1991–April 14, 1991	American Art	Including works lent by public and private collections throughout the U.S. and France, the exhibition the work of Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859–1937), the foremost African-American artist at the turn of the century. Born in Pittsburgh and raised in Philadelphia, Tanner studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under the renowned artist Thomas Eakins.
1991	Pop Art Prints	February 16, 1991–May 12, 1991	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The spirited revival of printmaking in the 1960s was closely tied to the emergence of Pop Art. The Philadelphia Museum of Art has assembled some 50 prints by 13 American artists, including Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg and James Rosenquist, to document this important and provocative era in printmaking
1991	Chinese Painting Gallery Installation	March 1, 1991–June 30, 1991	East Asian Art
1991	Form and Figure: Fourteen Philadelphia Printmakers, 1910–1950	March 23, 1991–May 19, 1991	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Drawn from the Museum's permanent collections, Form and Figure: Fourteen Philadelphia Printmakers, 1910–1950 reveals the influences on Philadelphia artists and printmakers of a variety of modern art movements, including Post-Impressionism, Expressionism and abstract art, Surrealism, and Social Realism
1991	John G. Johnson (1841–1917): A Celebration of his 150th Year	March 30, 1991–July 14, 1991	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	April 4 marks the 150th birthday of John G. Johnson, renowned Philadelphia lawyer and avid collector of European painting from the 15th through the 19th centuries. To celebrate the anniversary, the Museum has mounted a display of biographical and archival materials that document the patterns of Johnson's emerging taste and the decisions he made to acquire some of the most important works to come to this country at the turn of the century.
1991	Master Drawings from Leipzig (Five Centuries of Drawings: Pieces from The Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig)	April 20, 1991–June 23, 1991	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	One of the great European collections of prints and drawings, the Graphic Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig is justifiably famous among scholars and connoisseurs but not well known to the public at large, which is more familiar with the collection in Vienna, Paris, London, Berlin, and Dresden. This exhibition will introduce American audiences to 125 of the finest drawings from the Leipzig Museum.
1991	Jacob Lawrence: The Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman Series of Narrative Paintings	May 4, 1991–June 30, 1991	Modern and Contemporary Art	The Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman series of paintings by Jacob Lawrence and owned by the Hampton University Museum in Virginia, are presented together in their entirety for the first time in this exhibition, which opens at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on May 4, 1991.
1991	Form in Art: Works by Blind or Partially Sighted Adults	May 10, 1991–June 30, 1991
1991	Recent Acquisitions: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	May 18, 1991–August 11, 1991	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition includes works selected by the Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Department of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Acquisitions included from the last three years are a set of prints by Jasper Johns, Untitled, 1972; a drawing by 18th century Roman, Giuseppe Cades, Armida Abducting the Sleeping Rinaldo, (1774–85); and a group of photographs and prints by Man Ray.
1991	Picasso: The Vollard Suite	June 8, 1991–August 25, 1991	Modern and Contemporary Art	This exhibition presents one hundred of the most powerful and important prints Picasso created during the 1930s. In 1931, Ambroise Vollard, the great Parisian art dealer and publisher, persuaded Picasso to exchange the etched plates for this Suite for certain paintings that the artist wanted for his own collection.
1991	By the Sea: Paintings by Eugene Boudin and His Fellow Impressionists	July 13, 1991–September 1, 1991	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	The sea has been a source of inspiration for generations of French artists. This exhibition, drawn from the Museum's extensive 19th-century collections and augmented by important loans from private collectors in the area, reveals a variety of approaches to the subject by French artists from the 1850s to the 1890s.
1991	William Christenberry: Photographs	July 20, 1991–Augst 25, 1991	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	William Christenberry was born in 1936 in Hale County, Alabama, across a corn field from the farm family then being immortalized by Walker Evans and James Agee for the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Some 20 years later, pursuing a career as a painter and sculptor, Christenberry returned to Hale County with a box Brownie camera he had borrowed from his parents. William Christenberry: Photographs is drawn from a group of images acquired by the Museum in 1982.
1991	Japan at the Crossroads: Art of the Meiji Period, 1868–1911	August 1991–July 1992
1991	Art Beyond Sight: The 8th National Exhibit by Blind Artists	August 10, 1991–September 8, 1991
1991	Perfect Little Ladies: Fashion Dolls and the Art of Dress in the 1870s	August 24, 1991–February 2, 1992	Costume and Textiles	This exhibition will display three fashion dolls from the Museum's permanent collection, along with a dozen of their elaborate outfits which will include hats, gloves, shoes, jewelry, parasols, and other accoutrements.
1991	Fabric and Fashion	Fall 1991	Costume and Textiles
1991	The Picture of Health: Images of Midicine and Pharmacy from the William H. Helfand Collection	September 21, 1991–December 1, 1991	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition is a selection from the large collection of printed images of medicine and pharmacy formed over the past twenty-five years by William H. Helfand, who has generously donated or promised these objects to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, thereby significantly enriching its renowned Ars Medica collection in the area of popular and commercial art.
1991	Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture	October 20, 1991–January 5, 1992	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Considered by many as the most important architect of his time, Louis Kahn will be the subject of a major international exhibition which will premiere in Philadelphia, his home town. Organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the exhibition will include over 125 drawings, 48 models and 125 photographs and archival material, and will focus on 56 notable public buildings and projects.
1991	15th Annual Craft Show	November 7–10, 1991
1991	A Masterpiece in Focus: Hendrick Goltzius’ Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus would Freeze	November 16, 1991–February 2, 1992	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1991	Ian Hamilton Finlay: The Garden and the Revolution	December 21, 1991–March 1, 1992	Modern and Contemporary Art	The first one-person exhibition in the United States devoted to the Scottish artist, poet, and garden designer focuses on Finlay's magnum opus, the four-acre garden in Scotland called "Little Sparta."
1992	Camera Work	January 2, 1992–	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This painting of great rarity and superb quality by Hendrick Goltzius is the most important old master work to enter the collections in the past two decades. In celebration of its coming to Philadelphia, the Museum has organized an ambitious and intensely focused international loan exhibition of works by Goltzius that relate to this remarkable painting and clarify its unique position in Northern Mannerist art.
1992	Art and Nature: German Printmaking from 1750–1850	January 4, 1992–March 29, 1992	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition will present 125 prints by artists working during the late 18th-century and early 19th-century in the German-speaking regions of Europe, including Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Drawn entirely from the Museum's own collections, the exhibition will reveal the exceptional accomplishments of artists celebrated in the past, but little known today.
1992	Loves of the Gods: Mythological Painting in 18th Century France	February 23, 1992–April 26, 1992	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	The greatest authors of the ancient world including Ovid and Virgil told sensuous and compelling tales of the lives and loves of the gods. Centuries later, the leading French painters of the 18th century, including Watteau, Boucher, and Fragonard, used these stories as subjects for charming, poignant, and passionate paintings. Many are among the most ambitious and beautiful paintings of the period. Some 65 of these, never seen before in America, are included in this exhibition, which was first shown in Paris.
1992	An Examination of Renaissance Maiolica	February 29, 1992–May 1992	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	To celebrate the NCECA (National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts) meeting in Philadelphia, the department of European Arts is preparing a new display of Italian Renaissance majolica (tin-enamelled earthenware) from the permanent collection.
1992	American Ceramics	February 29, 1992–June 21, 1992	American Art	American Ceramics presents outstanding examples of pottery, porcelain and stoneware from the Museum's collection of porcelain by the Tucker and Hemphill China Factory of Philadelphia.
1992	Modes of Memory in Ninetheenth-Century French Painting	March 28, 1992–July 26, 1992	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1992	Albert Renger-Patzsch	April 1992–June 1992	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1992	Photographs by Nick Waplington: The “Living Room” and “Circles of Civilization” Series	April 25, 1992–June 28, 1992	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The young British photographer Nick Waplington (born 1965), whose striking and idiosyncratic color images have already won him wide recognition, will have his first one-person museum exhibition in the U.S. at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
1992	Form in Art: Works by Blind and Partially Sighted Adults	May 8, 1992–June 7, 1992
1992	Pertaining to Philadelphia: Contemporary Acquisitions from the Julius Bloch Memorial Fund	May 16, 1992–August 16, 1992	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Julius Bloch (1888–1966) was a Philadelphia artist who left a poignant record of the sad spectacle of Depression life and its effect on the working-class poor. Pertaining to Philadelphia: Contemporary Acquisitions from the Julius Bloch Memorial Fund presents a selection of works the Museum has acquired with a fund created in Bloch's memory.
1992	Contemporary Works by African American Artists	May 16, 1992–August 16, 1992	Modern and Contemporary Art	A selection of work by 20th-century artists of African-American heritage will be on view May through August in the American and 20th-Century galleries.
1992	African American Folk Art	May 16, 1992–August 30, 1992	American Art	An installation in the American galleries features works by late 19th and early 20th-century African American craft artists. Although self-taught and completely outside academic art circles, the power of perception and directness of observation shown by these artists have attracted the attention of a wide contemporary audience.
1992	Picasso and Things: The Still Lifes of Picasso	June 9, 1992–August 30, 1992	Modern and Contemporary Art	Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), widely regarded as the greatest artist of this century, consistently turned to the genre of still life throughout his long and amazingly varied career. This exhibition of over 100 paintings, reliefs, constructions, collages, drawings, and sculptures from museums and private collections throughout the world is the first to focus on Picasso's extraordinary contribution to still life.
1992	The Modern Still Life: Drawings, Watercolors, and Collages from the Collection	June 20, 1992–September 6, 1992	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Pablo Picasso worked within an early modern tradition that, following Cézanne, found the still life the ideal tool for exploring spatial relationships. In conjunction with the major exhibition, Picasso and Things: The Still Lifes of Picasso, the Museum will display over 50 works from the collections to demonstrate how different modern artists have approached the still life.
1992	Colonial Mexican Pottery, 1650–1750	Summer 1992		The production of glazed earthenware pottery was one of the earliest and most developed industries of New Spain, as colonial Mexico was called. The principal center of production, Puebla de Los Angeles, located south of Mexico City, was making wares by 1573. By the mid-seventeenth century, the Spanish had established a number of workshops in Puebla, and a potters' guild was formed to control quality.
1992	Women’s Work: American Printmakers in the 1930s	July 18, 1992–August 23, 1992	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Women's Work: American Printmakers in the 1930s is an exhibition of some 85 works drawn from the permanent collections. Among the artists represented are Peggy Bacon, Isabel Bishop, Lucienne Bloch, Caroline Durieux, Mabel Dwight, Wanda Gág, and Helen Lundeberg.
1992	Recent Acquisitions in Japanese Art	July 18, 1992–July 1993	East Asian Art	The three Japanese galleries on the second floor will be installed with paintings, sculpture, ceramics, lacquer, and metalwork acquired over the past five years.
1992	Doing Your Part for Fairmount Park, Fairmount Park Commission Art and Essay Contest Winners	August 8, 1992–September 11, 1992
1992	Delacroix: Studio Practices	August 15, 1992–November 8, 1992	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	Eugéne Delacroix (1798–1863) was the leader of the Romantic Movement in French painting. His innovations in subject matter and richness as a colorist will be explored in seven oil paintings from the Museum's collection, supplemented by several works on paper, excerpts from the artist's own writings and the methods of the restorer.
1992	John Cage, 1912–1992: “Paying Attention”	August 25, 1992–January 31, 1993	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1992	Leonardo da Vinci: The Anatomy of Man, Drawings from the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II	September 19, 1992–November 29, 1992	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Leonardo da Vinci's accomplishments in architecture, painting, drawing, sculpture, engineering, and scientific studies are legendary. Leonardo da Vinci: The Anatomy of Man: Drawings from the Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will present a selection of the great Renaissance artist's considerable output of anatomical drawings, among his finest creations on paper.
1992	Martin Puryear	November 1, 1992–January 3, 1993	Modern and Contemporary Art	This exhibition represents a major mid-career retrospective of the American sculptor Martin Puryear. It surveys his work up to the present, focusing on forty of his relief and three-dimensional indoor pieces.
1992	Life/Loss	November 2–22, 1992		The theme of life and loss recognizes both the losses to the AIDS epidemic and the increasing number of individuals living with AIDS and HIV. The art works in this exhibition reflect individual responses to the emotional impact of AIDS. They were created by the participants in the Museum’s Form in Art classes and the Older Adult Workshops.
1992	Philadelphia Craft Show	November 5–8, 1992
1992	Kids Care: A Children’s Art Exhibit, mounted in conjunction with citywide A Day without Art	November 25, 1992–January 4, 1993
1992	Art in Mourning	November 29, 1992–January 31, 1992	Modern and Contemporary Art	The exhibition will feature about ten works chosen from several of the Museum's departments, focusing on art's role in the process of mourning: its capacity to remind, to honor, to celebrate, to lament—in short, to memorialize. Art in Mourning is being organized as part of an annual nationwide commemoration of the shared loss due to AIDS.
1992	Contemporary Prints from the Collections	December 26, 1992–May 2, 1993	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1992	Beauty and Violence: Woodblock Prints by Yoshitoshi (1839–1892)	December 19, 1992–February 14, 1993	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Organized by the Society for Japanese Arts in the Netherlands, this exhibition of Yoshitoshi's work is presented in honor of the centennial of the artist's death. The foremost Japanese printmaker of the Meiji era, Yoshitoshi worked as a newspaper illustrator, achieving tremendous popularity.
1993	Beatrice Wood at 100	February 13, 1993–May 16, 1993	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition presents a small group of works by the American artist, Beatrice Wood, drawn from the Museum's collection of over sixty works and the collection of the Fabric Workshop. It celebrates the artist's one-hundredth birthday on March 3, 1993.
1993	The Impressionist and the City: Pissarro’s Series Paintings	March 7, 1993–June 6, 1993	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) produced more than 300 views of Paris and the ports of Normandy, often painting several versions of a scene from the same spot in varying light and weather. For the first time since the artist's death, this exhibition assembles his finest paintings of turn-of-the-century French urban life and explores his particular vision in creating series of favorite subjects.
1993	The Image of the City at the Time of Pissarro	March 7, 1993–June 13, 1993	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	In conjunction with Pissarro's Series, the Museum is mounting a focus exhibition on the theme of the city in late 19th and early 20th century French art.
1993	From Court to Academy: Charles-Nicolas Cochin, Royal Draughtsman and Printmaker	March 20, 1993–May 23, 1993	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition will examine every major aspect of Charles-Nicolas Cochin's career, from his early work showing the pomp and splendor of the French Rococo style, to his later shift to the NeoClassic.
1993	Gertrude Käsebier, Photographer	March 27, 1993–May 30, 1993	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Gertrude Käsebier (1852–1934) was a key figure in the American fine-art photography movement at the turn of the century. This exhibition of approximately forty prints, organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, surveys the range and variety of Käsebier's achievement, giving new emphasis to the work she made after 1910.
1993	Workers, An Archaeology of the Industrial Age: Photographs by Sebastiao Salgado	April 18, 1993–July 11, 1993	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition is comprised of images from Sebastião Salgado's current project, devoted to the epic theme of "the end of manual labor." In these magnificent photographs taken throughout the world, Salgado has brought together an archeological view of the activities that have defined labor from the Iron Age through the Industrial Revolution to the present.
1993	American Still Lifes from the 20th Century Collections	May 9, 1993–June 25, 1993	Modern and Contemporary Art
1993	Form in Art: Works by Visually Impaired Adults	May 14, 1993–June 27, 1993
1993	Joy before the Object: The Photographs of Albert Renger-Ratzsch	July 24, 1993–September 26, 1993	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents for the first time in North America a retrospective of the work of Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897–1966), one of Germany's most influential photographers. The exhibition is comprised of approximately 120 photographs from important museum and private collections in Europe and the United States.
1993	Ahead of Fashion: Hats of the 20th Century	August 21, 1993–November 28, 1993	Costume and Textiles	The Philadelphia Museum of Art will celebrate the art and craft of 20th-century millinery in the first major survey of its kind to be mounted in the United States. "Ahead of Fashion: Hats of the 20th Century" presents some 100 of the Museum's most spectacular women's hats, supplemented by an equal number borrowed from the costume collections of leading Museums throughout the country and private collectors.
1993	Surrealism on Paper	August 24, 1993–February 12, 1993	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1993	Drawing Sounds: An Installation by William Anastasi in Honor of John Cage	August 28, 1993–September 19, 1993	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	William Anastasi has organized an installation of sixteen drawings which are exhibited along with recordings of the sounds that accompanied and were created by the drawing process.
1993	Thinking is Form: The Drawings of Joseph Beuys	October 10, 1993–January 2, 1994	Modern and Contemporary Art	This retrospective exhibition comprises approximately 200 drawings by Joseph Beuys (1921–1986), the central figure in postwar German art. It focuses on the most intimate and revealing aspects of Beuys' work, one little known to American audiences.
1993	Design for the Tabletop	October 13, 1993–January 1994	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1993	Museum Studies I: Sherrie Levine	October 23, 1993–November 28, 1993	Modern and Contemporary Art	The "Museum Studies" program is designed as an ongoing series of new works and installations created by artists specifically for the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Sherrie Levine plans to exhibit six new sculptures in translucent white glass based on Brancusi's marble sculpture The Newborn in the Museum's collection.
1993	Visions of Antiquity: Neoclassical Figure Drawings	October 30, 1993–January 2, 1994	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Visions of Antiquity: Neoclassical Figure Drawings presents 125 old master drawings from public and private collections in Europe, the United States, and Canada, many of which have never before been exhibited in this country.
1993	Arnold Newman: Artists’ Portraits, Photographs from the 1940s	November 5, 1993–January 16 1994	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1993	In Observance of World AIDS Day and Day Without Art	November 29, 1993–January 12, 1994	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Many artists' lives have been lost to AIDS. Each year on December 1, as part of World AIDS Day, artists and art organizations throughout the world observe Day Without Art to pay tribute to those who have died, to recognize the loss to our society of creative power and future artistic contributions, and to express support to those living with AIDS and HIV.
1993	Videos by and about Lawrence Weiner	December 7, 1993–February 5, 1994	Modern and Contemporary Art
1994	A Severe Selection: Modern Works on Paper from the A. E. Gallatin Collections	January 29, 1994–March 27, 1994	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This Museum's celebrated holdings of early 20th century art owe much to the adventurous and discerning taste of a small number of pioneer collectors, including Albert Eugene Gallatin. The important avant-garde paintings Gallatin assembled in the early decades of this century—by Mondrian, Miro, Picasso, Braque, Klee, Leger, and Demuth, among others—are familiar to visitors to the 20th-century galleries. This exhibition of some 100 rarely exhibited works on paper reveals for the first time in many years the full range of Gallatin's legacy.
1994	Brandywine Workshop Prints: Recent Acquisitions	February 1, 1994–March 6, 1994	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Promoting printmaking as a fine art from the year of its founding in Philadelphia in 1972, the Brandywine Workshop has assumed a national role in its efforts to broaden the cultural mainstream through the involvement of artists and audiences from all ethnic backgrounds. The seven prints shown here, produced at the Brandywine Workshop between 1982 and 1991, were acquired in 1992 for the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
1994	Images of Discord: A Graphic Interpretation of The Netherlands’ War of Independence	February 5, 1994–April 19, 1994	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Low Countries, which began in 1568, was the first major European conflict fought in significant measure with paper propaganda. The works of art in this exhibition, beautiful and intriguing in their own right, document not only political history but also religious, economic, and social developments, affording lively insights into 16th-century Netherlandish life.
1994	Community Fabric: African American Quilts and Folk Art	February 13, 1994–April 10, 1994	American Art	This exhibition examines the dynamics of community traditions and aesthetics using a group of important, recently documented quilts, carvings, drawings, and other decorative arts produced by African American artisans working in the rural South from 1900 to 1980. These examples are discussed in light of the contexts and inspirations of their makers and the communities which played a role in their creation.
1994	Matisse’s “The Dance”: The Barnes Foundation Mural	March 27, 1994–June 12, 1994	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1994	Museum Studies 2: Richard Long	April 12, 1994–August 7, 1994	Modern and Contemporary Art	Richard Long is scheduled to make a monumentally-scaled drawing directly on the vast wall facing the Museum's West Entrance foyer. Long (born 1945), is arguably the most important British artist of his generation. He has never exhibited in Philadelphia before, although Museum audiences are familiar with his work through a drawing, Mud Foot Circles, and a sculpture, Limestone Circle, in the permanent collection.
1994	Drawing Albums and Print Portfolios: Early Collectors in Philadelphia	April 24, 1994–June 19, 1994	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	A little-known aspect of the rich cultural life in Philadelphia in the 19th century is revealed in an extraordinary group of some 42,000 European prints and 2,500 drawings spanning more than four centuries. This exhibition of 100 prints and 50 drawings traces the history of this vast collection by reviewing a century of collecting accomplishments by the principal Philadelphians responsible for its assembly between the 1830s and 1920s.
1994	Contemporary Art on Paper	May 4, 1994–September 25, 1994	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Contemporary Art on Paper features twenty works on paper by American and European artists. Most of the works date from the 1980s and 1990s and all are from the Museum's permanent collection. Among the artists whose work is included in this installation are Jorg Immendorf, Peter Campus, Richard Serra, and Carrol Dunham.
1994	Highlights of the Alfred Stieglitz Center Collection of Photographs	May 7, 1994–October 9, 1994	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Highlights of the Alfred Stieglitz Center Collection of Photographs displays fifty of the most important photographs from the Museum's Alfred Stieglitz Center.
1994	Madness, Mania, and Melancholy: Images from the Ars Medica Collection	May 18, 1994–June 23, 1994	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1994	Form in Art: Works by Visually Impaired Adults	June 1994
1994	A New Look at Old Masters: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art	June 4, 1994–July 10, 1994	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	A New Look at Old Masters is an experimental, temporary installation of old master paintings selected from the Museum's permanent collection. Some of these works are familiar and celebrated masterpieces while others have not been displayed for years. Many of the works on view will be included in the third and final phase of the Museum's reinstallation, which will encompass European art from 1550 to 1850.
1994	Metamorphoses: Photography in the Electronic Age	June 22, 1996–August 18, 1996	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1994	Eastern State Penitentiary at Fairmount: Crucible of Good Intentions	July 16, 1994–September 11, 1994	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Eastern State Penitentiary, begun in 1821, is one of the most important and innovative structures built in Philadelphia during the dynamic period of city planning and faith in large scale public works that followed the War of 1812. This exhibition will include 80 objects, including prints, drawings, paintings, watercolors, photographs, maps and models and will be accompanied by a book about Eastern State Penitentiary and its influence.
1994	Intimate Visions: The Photographs of Dorothy Norman	July 16, 1994–September 11, 1994	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Dorothy Norman's photographs have been compared to the private, quiet, and intimate poems of Emily Dickinson, but recognition of her work as a photographer tended to be eclipsed by her activities as a prominent writer, biographer, editor, and social activist. Intimate Visions: The Photographs of Dorothy Norman, a retrospective exhibition of 93 photographs, brings the artist's prolific photographic career into balance with her other talents.
1994	Marcel Duchamp: Videos by, about, with Marcel Duchamp	August 15, 1994–September 15, 1994	Modern and Contemporary Art	This exhibition includes four short videos: A Conversation with Marcel Duchamp, Entr'Acte, Marcel Duchamp in His Own Words, and Anemic Cinema.
1994	Japanese Design: A Survey Since 1950	September 25, 1994–November 27, 1994	East Asian Art	The Philadelphia Museum of Art will exhibit over 250 objects—ranging from furniture, housewares, and consumer electronics to posters, packaging, and clothing—in the first comprehensive survey anywhere of Japan's original and important contribution to modern design.
1994	Face to Face: Willa Snalit & Dean Ericson	October 2, 1994–November 10, 1994
1994	Video Art: The First 25 Years	October 1, 1994–November 27, 1994	Modern and Contemporary Art	The works in Video Art: The First 25 Years were produced between 1967 and 1992. Articulate and independent-minded, these works raise questions about sexual stereotyping, offer up autobiographical portraits, examine video process, and trace body-related performance art issues. The exhibition demonstrates that artists' approaches to similar subject matter have evolved radically over the past quarter century: these videotapes reflect and help define shifts in the past quarter-century's cultural and theoretical climate.
1994	Alone in a Crowd: Prints by African American Artists of the 1930s and 40s from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams	October 9, 1994–December 4, 1994	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The WPA print workshop set up in the 1930s gave many young African Americans their first prolonged exposure to the teachers and materials they needed to develop their art. This exhibition of over 100 prints by 45 artists reflects the rich variety of techniques, subjects, and philosophical approaches adopted by African American artists in the 1930s and 1940s. The exhibition is selected from the 3,500 prints assembled by Reba and Dave Williams, the largest private collection of the little known graphic work produced by African Americans in this period.
1994	18th Annual Craft Show	October 10–13, 1994
1994	Skill, Care, and Wit: Miscellaneous Objects from Japanese Markets	October 26, 1994–January 30, 1995	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	This exhibition is a loan installation of approximately 100 to 200 objects of popular culture collected in Japan.
1994	Two Naifs in Japan: Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown	October 26, 1994–January 30, 1995
1994	Selections from Camera Work	November 5, 1994–March 12, 1995	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1994	Made in Philadelphia, 1965–93	November 15, 1994–August 6, 1995
1994	Moving Pictures: Videos on AIDS	November 29, 1994–December 4, 1994	Modern and Contemporary Art	This two-hour program of videos was organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in recognition of World AIDS Day and Day Without Art, observances held each December 1 to commemorate the loss of family and friends to AIDS.
1994	Museum Studies 3: Lawrence Weiner	December 7, 1994–February 5, 1995		Lawrence Weiner has been using language as his medium since the 1960s. He uses words in the context of visual art, rather than poetry or literature, to make works about familiar materials and processes. This project for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, using the text COPPER & NICKEL & SWEAT MIXED UPON THE GROUND, was originally conceived by the artist for the empty pediment on the outside of the Museum building, flanking the East Courtyard.
1994	Show and Tell: Selected Videos by Lawrence Weiner	December 7, 1994–February 5, 1995	Modern and Contemporary Art	This program of videos accompanies a new work made by the artist for the Philadelphia Museum of Art as part of the "Museum Studies" series.
1994	19th and Early 20th Century British Drawings	December 14, 1994–April 9, 1995	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1994	Dorothea Lange: American Photography	December 24, 1994–February 19, 1995	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Dorothea Lange was an unabashed champion of the common person. Using the record making properties of the camera, she documented the plight of ordinary people during the Great Depression, and was able to study and record the social and economic conditions of migratory laborers entering California in the 1930s and 40s.
1995	From Cezanne to Matisse: Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation	January 31, 1995–April 23, 1995	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	The Barnes Foundation is home to one of the world's finest collection of Impressionist, PostImpressionist, and early modern paintings ever assembled by an individual. Eighty of the greatest masterpieces from this outstanding collection have been selected for a historic exhibition which marks the first and only time that the works will be on view outside the Barnes Foundation galleries in Merion, PA.
1995	Revising Romance: New Feminist Video	February 14, 1995–April 2, 1995	Modern and Contemporary Art	The tapes in this four part program are united by the question "What is the true meaning of Romance?" which has found new urgency in the work of feminist art and art criticism. Sources as varied as television soap opera, literature for adolescent girls, movie genres like film noir and "weepies," and the gothic novel and its pulp descendants all serve as subtexts for thise xhibition's video meditations on Romance.
1995	Between War and Utopia: Prints and Drawings of the German Avant-Garde, 1905–1933	March 18, 1995–July 23, 1995	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition of about 75 prints and drawings selected from the Museum's rich collections, many of which will be on view for the first time, traces the artistic development of some of the most influential artists working in Germany during the first decades of the twentieth century
1995	Himalayan Paintings for Buddhist Meditation: Visualization of Passion and Enlightenment	March 25, 1995–May 28, 1995	Indian and Himalayan Art	The display includes ten Himalayan meditation paintings called thangkas—vividly colored, extremely complex visualizations of the Buddhist pantheon—that are intended to help the viewer-meditator gain the experience of enlightenment. Some portray the union of compassion and wisdom symbolized by the sexual embrace of a god and goddess, while others are mandalas that represented the Buddhist enlightened universe surrounding a palace-temple of the gods. Also on view are a number of ritual objects depicted in the paintings.
1995	The House of Art: Drawings and Prints from the Artist Community at Gugging	April 1, 1995–August 13, 1995	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	During the last twenty-five years outsider art—produced at a distance from the world of museums, galleries, and academic art schools—has been widely collected and exhibited in cities from London to São Paolo to Milwaukee and Philadelphia. The prints and drawings shown here are by nine individuals who are or were patients at the Austrian State Psychiatric Hospital near Vienna. Their work has formed a highly visible part of recent international interest in the phenomenon of outsider art.
1995	19th Century Philadelphia Interiors: Watercolors by Joseph Shoemaker Russell (1795–1860)	April 4, 1995–July 2, 1995	American Art
1995	Videos and Films by Philadelphia Artists	April 4, 1995–June 11, 1995	Modern and Contemporary Art	Video and Film by Philadelphia Artists will be presented at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from April 4 through June 11, 1995. This program presents work by 13 artists who are Discipline Winners in Media Arts from the 1993–94 Pew Fellowships in the Arts. These artists are finalists and winners in this program that has awarded grants to individual artists since 1991, providing them with the opportunity to dedicate themselves to their artistic work for up to two years.
1995	Tibetan Buddhist Sand Painting: The Kalachakra Mandala for World Peace	April 25, 1995–May 27, 1995	Indian and Himalayan Art	The Kalachakra ("circle of time") sand mandala is a sacred ritual design belonging to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition called Vajrayana. It is a brilliantly colored, symmetrical design of geometric patterns measuring about five feet in diameter. Mandalas are used to intensify the imagination and to stimulate the creativity needed by the Buddhist practitioner for visualized mediations.
1995	Form in Art	May 19, 1995–June 25, 1995
1995	Potions, Pills, and Purges: The Art of Pharmacy	June 3, 1995–October 29, 1995	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The year 1996 marks a milestone in the history of Philadelphia as a leader in medical education and pharmaceutical manufacturing. The Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science began offering courses in pharmacy in 1821, and in 1997 celebrated its 175th anniversary, making it the oldest school of pharmacy in the United States. Potions, Pills, and Purges: The Art of Pharmacycommemorates this historic occasion, and also reminds us that in Philadelphia the arts and sciences have a venerable tradition of creative interaction that continues today.
1995	John Cage: Rolywholyover, A Circus	June 4, 1995–July 30, 1995	Modern and Contemporary Art	Rolywholyover A Circus is a composition for museum created by the composer, writer, philosopher, and visual artist John Cage (1912–1992). One of the last large-scale projects that Cage conceived prior to his death, Rolywholyover A Circus transforms the Philadelphia Museum of Art into the setting for a constantly changing array of art, performances, film and video screenings, readings, and special programs.
1995	John Cage: A Portrait Series	June 4, 1995–July 30, 1995	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1995	Nam June Paik: Videos, 1966–1992	June 13, 1995–September 10, 1995	Modern and Contemporary Art	Nam June Paik is one of the pioneers of video and television as art forms. Born in 1932 in Korea and trained as a pianist and composer, Paik was first known in the late 1950s and early '60s for his often outrageous performances with altered instruments. Early sources of inspiration came from his association with Fluxus, an international group that challenged traditional notions about art, and from his collaborations with other avant-garde artists such as John Cage. This exhibition features some of Paik's most important single-channel videos over the last 30 years.
1995	The Culture of Flowers	June 20, 1995–May 30, 1996	East Asian Art
1995	20th Century Mexican Painting	August 12, 1995–February 18, 1996	Modern and Contemporary Art
1995	August 26, 1995–November 26, 1995	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1995	Downsizing the Image Factory	September 12, 1995–November 12, 1995	Modern and Contemporary Art	Downsizing the Image Factory is a touring program of American independent and experimental film and video organized originally by video artist Jason Simon for exhibition in France. This group ofworks presents what Simon calls "a fractured and chaotic accounting of American life as seen in and from its cracks and corners."
1995	Tina Modotti: Photographs	September 16, 1995–November 26, 1995	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Tina Modotti: Photographs is the first comprehensive exhibition of the photography of Tina Modotti (1896–1942). In the catalogue which accompanies the exhibition, guest curator Sarah M. Lowe refers to Modotti as "the best-known unknown photographer of the twentieth century."
1995	Art Beyond Sight	September 25, 1995–October 11, 1995
1995	Contemporary Crafts Installation	October 1995–September 1996	American Art
1995	Constantin Brancusi	October 8, 1995–December 31, 1995	Modern and Contemporary Art	Born in Romania in 1876, Constantin Brancusi studied the fine arts in his native country before immigrating to Paris in 1904. After completing his training at the École des Beaux-Arts, he broke with traditional sculptural practices, creating a language of sculpture that reduced forms to their essential elements. As influential today as during the artist's lifetime, Brancusi's sculpture and his ideas about art continue to challenge and inspire contemporary artists.
1995	Michael Graves: The Architect and the Tea Kettle	October 25, 1995–February 25, 1996	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	This installation chronicles the process that Michael Graves, one of the twentieth century's most renowned architects and product designers, followed in developing the design of three teakettles.
1995	Recent Acquisitions: Richard Torchia, “Reckoning"	November 20, 1995–February 1996	Modern and Contemporary Art
1995	Works on Paper from the Collection of H. Richard Dietrich, Jr. and The Dietrich American Foundation	November 25, 1995–February 12, 1996	American Art	This exhibition presents a selection of works on paper that illustrates the wide historical range of the foundation's interests. Objects from the foundation's collections of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American decorative art and painting can be seen in the American galleries of this Museum.
1995	Photographs by Frederick H. Evans	December 7, 1995–February, 1996	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1995	Mediterranean: Photographs by Mimmo Jodice	December 16, 1995–February 18, 1996	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Jodice's photographs, taken between 1990 and 1995 at archaeological sites from Spain to Syria, link viewers with a historical and mythic past that continues to influence the present. This exhibition is the artist's first one-person show in the United States.
1995	The Culture of Flowers	December 15, 1995–June 15, 1996	East Asian Art	This exhibition features paintings of flowers and plants by Chinese artists of the 15th to early 19th centuries, including works by leading masters of the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) such as Hsu Wei (1551–1593) and Hsia Ch'ang (1388–1470).

Year	Title	Dates	Department	Additional Info
1996	Stella Kramrisch Collection: Manifestations of Shiva, Krishna, Durga	Through Spring 1996	Indian and Himalayan Art
1996	City Into Country: Nineteenth-Century French Paintings from the Charlotte Dorrance Wright Bequest and Other Collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art	February 3, 1996–March 31, 1996	European Painting and Sculpture before 1900	Barbizon, Impressionist, and early Modernist works curated by Christopher Riopelle, PMA; Arthur Ross Gallery, Fisher Fine Arts Library, University of Pennsylvania.
1996	Sidney Goodman: Paintings and Drawings, 1959–95	February 11, 1996–March 31, 1996	Modern and Contemporary Art	Sidney Goodman, a major exhibition presenting over 50 paintings and drawings from public and private collections throughout the country, is the first retrospective of the nationally renowned Philadelphia artist to be shown in his hometown. Goodman emerged in the early 1960's as one of the leading American artists in the return to the human figure as a primary subject, and has remained an influential force in contemporary art for some 30 years.
1996	Wall Flowers: Prints Drawings and Photographs from the Permanent Collection	February 24, 1996–April 21, 1996	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition will include works by a broad chronological range of artists, including Albrecht Dürer, Pierre Joseph Redouté, Currier and Ives, Henri Matisse, Ansel Adams, and Andy Warhol. These artists depict flowers in a variety of ways: as purely decorative elements in larger compositions, as symbols of virtues and emotions, or as subjects in themselves.
1996	Japan in Flower	February 25, 1996–March 3, 1996	East Asian Art	While China is known as the "mother of gardens," and had a strong tradition of floral iconography that influenced the art of its neighbors, the Japanese developed their own esthetic and literary traditions in the world of flowers. Japan in Flowershowcases both works reflecting the Chinese influence and others that are distinctly Japanese. The exhibition will be on view during the week of the Philadelphia Flower Show from February 25 through March 3, 1996.
1996	Peter Fischli and David Weiss, “The Way Things Go”	March 5, 1996–May 26, 1996	Modern and Contemporary Art
1996	Masterpieces of 20th Century Glass	March 6, 1996–August 31, 1996	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	Twentieth Century Glass is an installation of approximately 13 pieces of glass drawn from the Museum's extensive collection of twentieth-century design objects. Ranging in date from the 1920s to the present, the pieces illustrate various stylistic movements of the twentieth century, from the sculptural approach to the medium by glass artists such as Maurice Mariot, to the revival of engraved decoration most notably by the Swedish firm of Orrefors, to the playfulness of the glass of the 1980s produced for the Italian firm of Memphis. The installation also includes the work of a number of the twentieth-century's greatest glass artists including René Lalique and Paolo Venini.
1996	New Art on Paper 2: The Hunt Manufacturing Co. Collection	March 17, 1996–May 26, 1996		In 1979, the Hunt Manufacturing Co. initiated a series of generous grants to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for the acquisition of "adventurous and risk-taking" contemporary art on paper. The first phase of acquisitions culminated in an exhibition of the works of forty-six artists in 1988. New Art on Paper 2 celebrates the conclusion of the second phase and presents new works by thirty-five artists made and acquired between 1988 and 1995.
1996	Power in Practice	Spring 1996
1996	Correspondences with Rodin: Photographs by Ernestine Ruben	March 30, 1996–June 2, 1996	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This first exhibition of contemporary art ever mounted in the Rodin Museum presents some 20 photographs by Ernestine Ruben (born 1931).
1996	American Art in the Machine Age, 1913–1940: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs from the Collections	May 5, 1996–August 11, 1996	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	In the early decades of this century, rapid technological advances were radically changing life in this country. American artists searched for a new identity, a means of expressing their commitment to the modernist movements coming out of Europe in a purely American way. This exhibition traces American responses to the machine age through prints, drawings, and photographs from the permanent collection by such artists as Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Charles Sheeler, John Marin, and Louis Lozowick.
1996	Cézanne	May 30, 1996–September 1, 1996	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	An international loan exhibition spanning the career of Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) has been organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in collaboration with the Réunion de Musées Nationaux / Musée d'Orsay in Paris and the Tate Gallery in London. The three organizing museums will be the only venues for this unprecedented gathering of some 100 oil paintings, 35 watercolors, and 35 drawings from public and private collections.
1996	Paul Cézanne: The Sketchbooks	May 30, 1996–September 1, 1996	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Eighty-one drawings from two Cézanne sketchbooks given to the Museum in 1987 by Ambassador and Mrs. Walter H. Annenberg will present the full range of the artist's subject matter from the early 1880s to about 1900. On view in Gallery 165 in the 19th-century galleries, first floor, adjunct to the rotunda.
1996	Marie-Ange Guilleminot, “Mes Poupees”	June 9, 1996–July 7, 1996	Modern and Contemporary Art	Marie-Ange Guilleminot's video My Dolls is being shown in conjunction with a recently purchased work by this young Parisian artist entitled Navels (also on display in this gallery). Navels consists of plaster casts made on the bodies of seventy-four of Guilleminot's acquaintances. In My Dolls, the artist again uses the process of moulding, raising similar issues of intimacy and identity as she works the pliable blobs that are her "dolls"
1996	Metamorphoses: Photography in the Electronic Age	June 22, 1996–August 18, 1996		Metamorphoses: Photography in the Electronic Age appears at a charged moment in the evolution of photography. With digital-imaging technology, photographs can now be created, enhanced, and altered in the computer. This breakthrough has forced a re-evaluation of still images and the widely accepted concept of "photographic truth." The exhibition celebrates the creative potential of the digital image and demands a fresh look at the relationship between photographs and the realities they represent.
1996	Artists’ Interviews	July 9, 1996–September 1, 1996	Modern and Contemporary Art	In this video program, several contemporary artists discuss their art and working methods. The program begins with a 1958 interview with Marcel Duchamp, whose influence as artist, advisor, and muse pervades these galleries.
1996	Solid Bone and Luminous Flesh: Ch’ing Dynasty Ceramics (1644–1911)	August 15, 1996–August 3, 1996	East Asian Art	This exhibition, drawn from the Museum's permanent collection, explores the rich variety of ceramics made during the Ch'ing Dynasty. The 35 works on view include pieces made at royal and provincial kilns for emperors as well as for foreign markets.
1996	A Passion for Paisley: Indian and European Shawls	August 30, 1996–January 26, 1997	Costume and Textiles	An exhibition of shawls, on view for the first time, includes about forty objects dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. The exhibition focuses upon the evolution of shawl design and corresponding artistic interchanges between India and Europe. Related articles of women's dress complement the shawls.
1996	Feminine/Masculine: Videos from the Centre Pompidou	September 2, 1996–November 3, 1996	Modern and Contemporary Art	The selection of videos shown here originally accompanied the exhibition Féminin/Masculin, displayed at the Musée National d'Art Moderne (Centre Georges Pompidou) in Paris this past winter. The videos survey twenty-five years of works dealing with gender identity and relations between the sexes.
1996	Harry Callahan	September 14, 1996–November 24, 1996	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Born in 1912, Harry Callahan has for more than fifty years used his photography to understand and reveal his relationship to the world around him. This exhibition of Callahan's expressive, autobiographical photographs charts his artistic development from its genesis in Detroit in the early 1940s and its flowering in Chicago in the late 1940s and 1950s to its maturation in Providence and Atlanta, where he now lives.
1996	Etchings and Lithographs by James Abbott McNeill Whistler	September 14, 1996–January 12, 1997	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1996	Gifts from the Collection of Edna S. Beron	October 6, 1996–December 1, 1996	Organized by Philadelphia Museum of Art	The late Edna Beron was a cherished member of this Museum's community and a remarkable art collector. This installation includes the first painting that Mrs. Beron purchased — Young Love by Philip Evergood -- as well as the last object she bought — Love Boat, a soup tureen by the centenarian American ceramicist Beatrice Wood.
1996	Japanese Landscapes	October 6, 1996–September 14, 1997	East Asian Art	This exhibition displays the two styles of Japanese landscape painting that evolved over the centuries along parallel lines: the Chinese monochrome ink painting tradition, and the native "Yamato-e" tradition.
1996	Richard Meier Builds: From Tabletop to Rooftop	October 30, 1996–February 28, 1997	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	The works on display in this exhibition present a survey of objects and furniture designed by the architect Richard Meier (American, born 1934). Meier follows a long and distinguished tradition of architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Josef Hoffmann, Alvar Aalto, and Walter Gropius who stressed, to varying degrees, the importance of the "total environment." In his product design as in his architecture, Meier adheres to a classically modernist vocabulary focusing on proportion, balance, and the manipulation of basic geometry.
1996	The Peale Family: Creation of an American Legacy, 1770–1870	November 3, 1996–January 5, 1997	American Art	Charles Willson Peale, his brother, sons, nieces and nephew were artists and naturalists whose works illustrate intellectual developments in 18th and 19th-century America. In addition to the artists' works, the exhibition explores themes including the family in America, the impact of changing social and political ideas on art, and the uses and functions of art. The Philadelphia Museum of Art is the first venue for this national touring exhibition.
1996	The Caldwalader Family: Art and Style in Early Philadelphia	November 3, 1996–February 2, 1997	American Art	This exhibition examines the important patronage, influence, and support of the early artistic and cultural development of the American colonies and the new republic supplied by several generations of the Cadwalader family of Philadelphia.
1996	Demolitions and Other Works	November 5, 1996–December 29, 1996	Modern and Contemporary Art	This two-hour program surveys three decades of videos and artworks made in the urban or industrial landscape. The program begins with the recently completed documentation of three of Robert Smithson's historical earth-works from the 1960s, and one of Gordon Matta-Clark's famous carvings of an abandoned building. The final works include a chronicle of Rachel Whiteread's controversial House, which stood in London for three months before being demolished, and a video compiled from footage of demolitions by blasting.
1996	Picasso and Braque: “After Cezanne”	November 9, 1996–March 2, 1997	Modern and Contemporary Art
1996	The Blue Four	December 3, 1996–March 23, 1997	Modern and Contemporary Art
1996	Susan Barron: Labyrinth of Time	December 14, 1996–March 2, 1997	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Susan Barron's Labyrinth of Time is a unique, eleven-volume artist's book completed in 1987. Exhibited here for only the second time in this country, in an installation conceived by the artist, this book is a compilation of works by Barron made in different mediums over a fifteen-year period.
1996	In the Manner of…: Imitation, Emulation, and Forgery in Old Master Printmaking	December 21, 1996–March 16, 1997	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Twentieth-century viewers have come to value originality as a crucial component of artistic talent. Our predecessors, however, had different views. For centuries the imitation of earlier artists was a major part of artistic training, with students learning to draw mainly by copying prints and drawings. The ability to work "in the manner of" another artist was widely praised, and some printmakers based their entire careers on this skill. Prints played an especially important role in this process.
1996	Up Close and Personal	December 31, 1996–March 2, 1997	Modern and Contemporary Art	Much of today's most dynamic video art is made by younger women, and it is their work that is featured in Up Close and Personal. These artists often use a performance-based approach in which the artist herself is cast as the key performer in a staged situation in which she addresses the viewer directly. The Museum's exhibition features works by 13 artists from the United States and Europe, including Cheryl Donegan, Vanessa Beecroft, Alix Lambert, Sadie Benning, Gillian Wearing, and Alex Bag.
1997	John Sartain, 1808–1897: Philadelphia Printmaker	January 18, 1997–April 20, 1997	American Art	London-born and London-trained, John Sartain set up as a printmaker in Philadelphia in 1830. He made his reputation in the United States by reviving the use of mezzotint engraving, a technique long favored in England — even after the advent of photography — as the most effective means of reproducing paintings as prints. To mark the centennial of the patriarch's death, the Philadelphia Museum of Art celebrates the accomplishments of the Sartain family with this installation of mezzotints by John Sartain drawn entirely from the Museum's own collection.
1997	Alfred Stieglitz: Early Work in Gravure	January 18, 1997–May 25, 1997	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1997	Photographs by Harold Edgarton: Recent Acquisitions	February 1, 1997–May 25, 1997	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Dr. Harold Edgerton (American, 1903–1990) developed the stroboscope and electronic flash for high-speed, stop-action photography. His far-reaching experiments, begun at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the early 1930s and continuing into the 1980s, fundamentally changed the way we perceive the world by making visible the unseen, dynamic behavior of objects in motion. This exhibition presents a selection from the fifty-nine photographs most generously given to the Museum by The Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation in 1996.
1997	The Pennsylvania Impressionists: Landscapes from Bucks County	February 1, 1997–July 27, 1997	Modern and Contemporary Art	This installation celebrates the landscapes of the Pennsylvania Impressionists who worked closely together in New Hope at the beginning of the twentieth century. Also known as the New Hope School, these artists were rooted in the tradition of American Realism and influenced by the popularity of French Impressionism.
1997	Portraits of Franklin	February 15, 1997–April 20, 1997	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	The works of art in this gallery — drawn from the Museum's permanent holdings and lent by institutional and private owners — are displayed in celebration of the Museum's recent acquisition of Jean-Antoine Houdon's marble bust of Benjamin Franklin, on view in the rotunda nearby (gallery 284). Thanks to the gifts from Mr. and Mrs. Wharton Sinkler and the collection of prints given in 1964 by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and other donors, the Philadelphia Museum of Art possesses a notable collection of portraits of Benjamin Franklin, now crowned by Houdon's vivid likeness.
1997	Encounters with Modern Art: Works from the Rothschild Family Collections	March 2, 1997–May 11, 1997	Modern and Contemporary Art	Herbert (1891–1976) and Nannette (1897–1979) Rothschild collected art with deep personal commitment. They were devoted to the major modernist schools of the early twentieth century, often traveling from New York to France in their search. Their collecting activities were inspired and encouraged by their daughter, the abstract painter Judith Rothschild (1921–1993). The collection is fascinating in its rich variety; in addition, important concentrations of works by Juan Gris and Piet Mondrian, with examples from the early careers of both artists, bring great depth to this presentation of early modernism.
1997	Philadelphia Stories	March 4, 1997–May 18, 1997	Modern and Contemporary Art	This exhibition features recent works by local artists who use the landmarks, neighborhoods, and inhabitants of Philadelphia as their subjects.
1997	Scandinavian Design, 1930–1980	March 17, 1997–October 1, 1997	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	Beginning March 18, 1997, the Philadelphia Museum of Art will present some 20 works by Aalto and his contemporaries in Scandinavian Design 1930–1980, an exhibition in gallery 170 on the Museum's first floor. The installation will be drawn from the Museum's extensive collection of 20th-century design and will include works by Swedish, Danish and Norwegian makers in wood, glass, metal, ceramics and plastic
1997	Rodin and Michelangelo: A Study in Artistic Inspiration	March 27, 1997–June 22, 1997	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917) saw himself as the heir to a tradition of monumental nude sculpture in western art that stretched from ancient Greece and Rome, through the Renaissance, down to his own day. Within this tradition, Rodin expressed special esteem for the Italian Renaissance sculptor Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564). As soon as Rodin began to achieve fame, around 1880, critics too recognized his debt to Michelangelo. This exhibition brings together drawings and sculptures by the two artists in order to suggest what Rodin learned from Michelangelo, and how he adapted the lessons of Michelangelo to his own, very different, sculptural concerns.
1997	The Hands of Rodin: A Tribute to B. Gerald Cantor	March 27, 1997–June 22, 1997	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917) once spoke of his "intense passion for the expression of the human hands." This exhibition explores the range of meanings that the hand held for Rodin. It includes small studies of individual hands and full-scale figures in which the gestures of hands playan essential role in conveying meaning. For Rodin, the hand, and the sensuous interplay of hands within groups of figures, were defining components of his sculptures.
1997	Chuck Close/Paul Cadmus: In Dialogue	April 5, 1997–June 22, 1997	Modern and Contemporary Art	Juxtaposing the work of two remarkable artists, this installation invites reflection on matters of figuration and abstraction, miniature and gigantism, calculation and imagination—conventional oppositions that appear not to be so purely opposite after all. The accompanying brochure features a conversation with Close and Cadmus that illuminates their association on both an artistic and a personal level.
1997	Recent Acquisitions in Asian Art	April 15, 1997–October 31, 1998	East Asian Art	This exhibition features a selection of recently acquired art from Asia, including Chinese calligraphy, Japanese painting, Southeast Asian sculpture and Persian miniatures.
1997	The Ingenious Machine of Nature: Four Centuries of Art and Anatomy	April 19, 1997–June 15, 1997	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	What we now know as the Renaissance came into being in the arts at the end of the 15th century at the same time that European scientists were moving away from relying on ancient texts in favor of conducting their own research. This major loan exhibition, organized by the National Gallery of Canada, presents for the first time four centuries of creative collaboration between science and art through the display of some 120 prints, drawings, and anatomical atlases dating from the late 15th to the early 19th century.
1997	Rudolf Staffel: Searching for Light: Ceramics, 1936–1996	May 3, 1997–August 3, 1997	American Art	In a career spanning more than six decades, Philadelphia artist Rudolf Staffel (born 1911) has earned an international reputation for his revolutionary work in porcelain. This strong, white ceramic material can be made thin and translucent, and is perfectly suited to the artist's quest for luminous, freely-shaped forms. Rudolf Staffel: Searching for Light; Ceramics, 1936–1996, an exhibition on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from May 3 through August 7, 1997, presents a comprehensive overview of the the master ceramicist's work from 1936 to 1996.
1997	Public Service and Other Announcements	May 20, 1997–August 3, 1997	Modern and Contemporary Art	This program presents two decades of videos made by artists using the formats of public service announcements and advertising. Many of the works were originally aired on broadcast or cable television.
1997	Liberating the Moment: American Modernism and the Stieglitz Circle	May 31, 1997–August 12, 1997	Modern and Contemporary Art	This installation illustrates the American reaction to European modernism in the early years of the twentieth century, as seen in the work of a group of artists associated with the avant-garde photographer and collector, Alfred Stieglitz.
1997	Opening of the William P. Wood Gallery of Indian Art	June 1, 1997–November 30, 1997	Indian and Himalayan Art	The special opening installation displays paintings and objects given to the Museum by and in appreciation of William P. Wood, to celebrate his life and legacy.
1997	Paul Klee: Works from the Bauhaus Years, 1921–1931	June 19, 1997–mid September 1997	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879–1940), celebrated for his luminous use of color and for the rich fantasy world he created in his art, once described his technique as "taking a line for a walk." His interest in line, tonality, and color resulted in an innovative body of works on paper, which constitute the greatest part of his artistic output. The years Klee spent at the Bauhaus in Germany (1921–31) proved to be his most fertile.
1997	India: A Celebration of Independence, 1947–1997	July 6, 1997–August 31, 1997	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	India: A Celebration of Independence, 1947–1997 is a major travelling exhibition devoted to photographs of India. Organized by Michael E. Hoffman, Adjunct Curator of the Alfred Stieglitz Center of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, India will feature 250 images by 21 photographers, including Sunil Janah, Raghu Rai, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Sebastiao Salgado.
1997	Prized Impressions: Gifts from the Print Center of Philadelphia	July 12, 1997–September 14, 1997	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	During its long life, The Print Center has worked closely with the Philadelphia Museum of Art to encourage the study and appreciation of prints and photographs. The prints in Prized Impressions have been selected from more than one thousand works on paper given to the Museum by The Print Center and its members over the past seventy years.
1997	Contemporary Art of Paper	August 3, 1997–November 30, 1997
1997	Recent Acquisitions in Asian Art	August 15, 1997–October 31, 1998
1997	The Spirit of Korea	August 15, 1997–August 1, 1998	East Asian Art
1997	The Body: Expression/Impression	September 9, 1997–December 31, 1997	Modern and Contemporary Art
1997	Frolicking Animals in Japanese Art	September 26, 1997–August 2, 1998	East Asian Art	This installation explores the Japanese love of nature in its presentation of paintings, ceramics, and decorative arts bearing animal motifs. Featured are works bearing images of fish, fowl, and fauna from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, taken from the Museum's collection.
1997	Interiors: Drawings and Watercolors, 1800–1950	September 27, 1997–January 11, 1998	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Artists include: Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, Charles Demuth, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, and others.
1997	Robert Capa, Photographs 1932–54	October 4, 1997–January 4, 1998	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The first true retrospective of one of this century's greatest photojournalists.
1997	Best Dressed: 250 Years of Style	October 21, 1997–January 4, 1998	Costume and Textiles	200 costumes and accessories covering nearly three centuries of fashion.
1997	Landscapes of the Mind	November 1997
1997	Philippe Starck Designs	November 12, 1997–March 1, 1998	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	An installation of objects provides a sampling of the wit and individuality found in his work. Approximately thirty pieces are featured including furniture and household objects such as utensils, which Starck has called "micro-sculptures which enrich the kitchen."
1997	Epics from the Hills: Pahari Paitings of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, 1750–1850	December 17, 1997–June 28, 1998	Indian and Himalayan Art	Pahari—"of the hills"—designates the Himalayan foothill region of northern India. Between 1750 and 1850 painters, patronized by the many local rulers of this area, strove in their art to create an ideally beautiful world of lush mountain landscapes and graceful, winsome figures.
1998	Friends Prints for Sale	January 1998
1998	African American Art	January 1998
1998	Partners	January 6, 1998–March 22, 1998	Modern and Contemporary Art
1998	Photographs from the Collection of Dorothy Norman	January 18, 1998–May 10, 1998	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	In 1968, Dorothy Norman supported the establishment of the Alfred Stieglitz Center at the Philadelphia Museum of Art with an initial gift from her splendid collection of over 500 photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, Paul Strand, Minor White, and other important twentieth-century photographers, many of whom she knew well.
1998	Paris in the 1890s: Painters’ Prints in the Age of Bonnard, Vuillard, and Toulouse-Lautrec	January 24, 1998–April 5, 1998	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Selected from the Museum's collection, over 100 prints by leading Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters are exhibited in Paris in the 1890s.
1998	Themes: Chair Design in the 20th Century	February 17, 1998–October 16, 1998	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
1998	Self-Taught Artists of the 20th Century: An American Anthology	March 10, 1998–May 17, 1998	American Art	Examines a powerful range of works by 31 American self-taught artists who span the entire twentieth century, from Horace Pippin, Grandma Moses, and Morris Hirshfield to Howard Finster, Purvis Young, and Thornton Dial.
1998	Recognizing Van Eyck	April 1, 1998–June 14, 1998	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	A small but extraordinary exhibition that brings together a group of works by one of the best known and most influential artists in the history of art, the great master of Netherlandish painting, Jan van Eyck (c.1385–1441).
1998	New Work by Contemporary Artist Zoe Leonard	April 1, 1998–September 6, 1998	Modern and Contemporary Art	Strange Fruit (for David) is composed of over 300 banana, orange, grapefruit, lemon, and avocado peels with thread, zippers, buttons, sinew, needles, plastic, wire, stickers, fabric trim and wax.
1998	Museum Studies 4: Rirkrit Tiravanija	April 1, 1998–May 31, 1998	Modern and Contemporary Art	In a joint effort, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Educational Management Group (EMG) bring you the month-long journey across the US by motorhome of Rirkrit Tiravanija and five art students from Thailand.
1998	Chinese Export Porcelain for the American Market from the Collection H. Richard Dietrich, Jr. and the Dietrich American Foundation	April 17, 1998–September 6, 1998	American Art	The collection includes punch bowls, cider jugs, a mantel garniture, custard cups, plates and a tea service. Featured are pieces that once belonged to George and Martha Washington, the Morris family of Philadelphia, the Van Rensselaers of Albany, New York, and other prominent families of the Federal period.
1998	Drawing on Copper: Etching in Italy before 1700	April 19, 1998–May 31, 1998	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition features about seventy-five Italian etchings from the Museum's permanent collection, including prints by Parmigianino, Guido Reni, and Castiglione.
1998	Heroes & Ghosts: Japanese Woodcuts by Kuniyoshi (1797–1861)	April 25, 1998–June 28, 1998	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Drawn from public and private collections in Europe and the United States, the works of art in this exhibition present Kuniyoshi as a printmaker who embraced a broad range of subjects.
1998	From the Sculptor’s Studio: Italian Baroque Terracottas from the Hermitage	May 16, 1998–August 30, 1998	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	35 sculptural models from the Farsetti collection, including works by the pre-eminent Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini and Alessandro Algardi, each born 400 years ago this year, and by a dozen other seventeenth-century Roman artists.
1998	John B. Flannagan: On Paper and In Stone	May 23, 1998–September 20, 1998	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	American artist John B. Flannagan's (1895–1942) rough-hewn stone sculptures of animals and women find their forerunners in pre-Columbian, African, Celtic, and Gothic art, while his expressive black line-drawings recall certain works by Rodin and Matisse.
1998	Images of the Spirit: Photographs by Graciela Iturbide	June 14, 1998–August 9, 1998	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The first retrospective exhibition of photographer Graciela Iturbide (b. 1942) to be shown in the United States, Images of the Spirit is comprised of a range of the artist's images showing religious and cultural traditions of her native Mexico, the exhibition includes 104 gelatin silver prints.
1998	Ecclesiastical Vestments and Embroideries from the 14th to the 18th Century	June 23, 1998–April 18, 1999	Costume and Textiles	This installation features a selection of ecclesiastical vestments and embroideries, made by professional embroiders and master weavers, whose work was regulated by Europe's elite craft guilds.
1998	Bengali Folk Art from the Kramrisch Collection	July 7, 1998–February 3, 1999	Indian and Himalayan Art
1998	Threads of Cotton,Threads of Brass: Arts of Eastern India and Bangladesh from the Stella Kramrisch Collection	July 7, 1998–June 13, 1999	Indian and Himalayan Art	This exhibition will explore the art and ritual of the varied spheres of life, domestic, village, and temple through works made in the regions of eastern India and neighboring Bangladesh.
1998	Twenty Philadelphia Artists: Celebrating the Fleisher Challenge at Twenty	July 18, 1998–September 13, 1998	Modern and Contemporary Art	The show will focus on a twenty year span of artists and their work and is planned to complement Fleisher's own show of new work by nearly 200 Challenge artists.
1998	20 x 12: A Generation of Challenge Artists	July 18, 1998–August 28, 1998
1998	Henry Moore: A Centennial Salute, an Exhibition in Celebration of Philip I. Berman	July 30, 1998–November 29, 1998	Modern and Contemporary Art	An exhibition of sculpture and works on paper by one of the most renowned and beloved sculptors of the 20th century.
1998	Ink Traces: East Asian Calligraphy	August 11, 1998–August 2, 1999	East Asian Art	Drawn from the Museum's permanent collections, Ink Tracespresents screens, albums, textiles and decorative arts that feature calligraphy by Chinese, Japanese and Korean artists.
1998	Ferdinand Olivier Prints	Fall 1998	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
1998	American Self-Taught Artists 1730–1870	September 10, 1998–February 1, 1999	American Art
1998	Contemporary American Crafts	September 11, 1998–March 19, 2000	American Art	This installation features a new selection of work from the Museum's constantly growing collection of contemporary American crafts.
1998	Delacroix: The Late Work	September 15, 1998–January 3, 1999	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	This will be the first exhibition in a decade to examine the great genius of Delacroix.
1998	Delacroix and the Romantic Image	September 26, 1998–January 31, 1999	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This installation features a collection of twenty-five works on paper by Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) and several other French artists, all made between 1824 and 1854 at the height of the Romantic Era.
1998	Joseph Cornell/Marcel Duchamp...in resonance	October 8, 1998–January 3, 1999	Modern and Contemporary Art	Organized jointly by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas,this exhibition includes some 40 works by each artist, and examines interests shared by both artists, including film, optics, glass, games, the "portable museum," and the elusive yet potent force of desire.
1998	Cool Britannia: Recent British Design Selected by Sir Terence Conran	November 11, 1998–March 7, 1999	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	ir Terence Conran, Britain's best-known figure in design, home furnishing, and retailing, was the recipient of this year's Design Excellence Award from Collab, a group of design professionals who support the Museum's Modern and Contemporary design collections.
1998	Chinese Lacquer Boxes	November 21, 1998–June 1, 1999	East Asian Art	Drawn from the Museum's permanent collections, this collection features decorated lacquer boxes from the Ming (1368–1644) and Ch'ing (1644–1911) dynasties. In China, such boxes served as storage container sholding documents, gifts, incense, cosmetics, jewelry, hairpins, or even medicinal herbs and minerals.
1998	Gherardo Starnina: Reconstructing a Renaissance Masterpiece	December 17, 1998–March 7, 1999	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	The exhibition will offer North American audiences the rare Renaissance altarpiece.
1998	Pipilotti Rist’s Pamela	October 6–18, 1998	Modern and Contemporary Art	Part of the exhibition Trance: New Work in Video
1998	Rodney Graham’s Halcion Sleep	October 20, 1998–November 1, 1998	Modern and Contemporary Art	Part of the exhibition Trance: New Work in Video
1998	Seoungho Cho’s Identical Time	November 3–15, 1998	Modern and Contemporary Art	Part of the exhibition Trance: New Work in Video
1998	Peter Rose’s Understory	November 17–29, 1998	Modern and Contemporary Art	Part of the exhibition Trance: New Work in Video
1998	Helen Mirra’s Third	December 1–13, 1998	Modern and Contemporary Art	Part of the exhibition Trance: New Work in Video
1998	Abigail Lane’s Never Never Mind	December 15–27, 1998	Modern and Contemporary Art	Part of the exhibition Trance: New Work in Video
1998	Bill Viola’s The Passing	December 29, 1998–January 10, 1999	Modern and Contemporary Art	Part of the exhibition Trance: New Work in Video
1999	Steina Vasulka	January 12, 1999–March 7, 1999	Modern and Contemporary Art
1999	Jasper Johns: Process and Printmaking	January 23, 1999–April 4, 1999	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	More than 100 proofs and edition prints drawn almost entirely from the artist's personal collection.
1999	Georgia O’Keefe and Alfred Stieglitz	February 7, 1999–May 23, 1999	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	On view in the Museum's Eglin Gallery will be nine paintings and drawings by O'Keeffe (1887–1986) and a group of Stieglitz's renowned photographic portraits of her spanning over a decade in their tumultuous relationship.
1999	Mad for Modernism: Earl Horter and His Collection	March 7, 1999–May 16, 1999	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Reassembling these works for the very first time, Mad for Modernism will close a long-recognized gap in the history of collecting modern art in the United States.
1999	German Art and Design of the Twentieth Century	March 15, 1999–October 31, 1999	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	This collection is drawn from the Museum's extensive permanent collection of twentieth-century decorative arts and paintings. The objects trace the development of the decorative arts from the Art Nouveau style at the beginning of the century to the modernism of the Bauhaus school in the 1920s to the functionalist design of the mid century.
1999	Crowning Achievements: Dentistry in the Ars Medica Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art	March 28, 1999–May 30, 1999	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	100 images pertaining to dentistry are featured in this exhibition.
1999	Anne Katrine Dolven	April 6, 1999–June 28, 1999	Modern and Contemporary Art
1999	Goya: Another Look	April 11, 1999–July 11, 1999	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	An installation of original etchings and lithographs by Goya, selected from the Museum's permanent collections, will survey Goya's accomplishments as one of the greatest graphic artists of all time.
1999	Selections from the Seventies	April 17, 1999–March 19, 2000	Modern and Contemporary Art	This installation of paintings from the Museum's permanent collections highlights the eclectic approaches to this medium by American artists working in diverse cultural contexts and geographic locations.
1999	Raymond Pettibon	April 30, 1999–July 25, 1999	Modern and Contemporary Art	The exhibition will include approximately 500 drawings chosen from the thousands that Pettibon has made during the last two decades.
1999	Steeled for Style: Hoop Skirts of the Civil War Era	May 1, 1999–May 14, 2000	Costume and Textiles	The installation includes a variety of hoop skirts suspended to show their types and constructions, a mannequin in a corset, hoop and other underwear, and two mannequins in the full-skirted dresses of the period.
1999	Neoclassical and Romantic Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection	May 7, 1999–July 20, 1999	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
1999	A Grove of Trees	May 29, 1999–October 10, 1999	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This collection—featuring some twenty-five western and Japanese prints by artists such as Camille Pissarro and Katsushika Hokusai, drawings by Jean Franois Millet and Winslow Homer, and photographs by Ansel Adams and Josef Sudek—celebrates the tree in all of its ever-changing aspects.
1999	Passages: Photographs from the Collection	June 5, 1999–November 14, 1999	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This collection will feature some sixty works from the Museum's permanent collections representing the full range of photographic techniques and processes from 1840 to the present.
1999	Currents in Clay	June 5, 1999 (or September 13, 2000?)–May 9, 2004	East Asian Art	This installation includes a focused selection of contemporary ceramics from the Museum's Japanese collections.
1999	American Illustrations in the Time of Maxfield Parrish: From the Museum’s Collection	June 12, 1999–September 25, 1999	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	American illustrations contemporary with Parrish's seventy-year career, which began in Philadelphia, where he was born and received his early art training.
1999	Making the Path to Perfection: Art for the Jains in India	June 26, 1999–January 16, 2000	Indian and Himalayan Art	This collection explores the relationship between the Jain community and the sublime and inspiring art it commissioned during the past thousand years, all across the Indian Subcontinent.
1999	Form in Art	Through June 27, 1999
1999	John Baldessari: Selected Video Tapes from the 1970s	June 29, 1999–September 26, 1999	Modern and Contemporary Art
1999	Changing Seasons: Three Generations of Pennsylvania Impressionists	July 27, 1999–December 5, 1999	Modern and Contemporary Art	Widely known as the New Hope School, their work is featured in this exhibition of 16 paintings from the holdings of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and a private collection.
1999	Famed and Fabled in Chinese Painting	August 14, 1999–June 18, 2000	East Asian Art	Supernatural Daoist Immortals and disciples of the Buddha (Lohans), powerful dragons, famous statesmen and beautiful women count among the famed and fantastic beings that were popular subject matter for Mind and Qing dynasty painters and their patrons.
1999	Fun and Games in Japanese Art	August 14, 1999–June 18, 2000	East Asian Art	The subjects of this installation are the games, festivals, theater and amusements of children and adults in traditional Japan.
1999	Double-Blind	September 28, 1999–November 28, 1999	Modern and Contemporary Art
1999	Worldly Goods: The Arts of Pennsylvania, 1680–1758	October 10, 1999–January 2, 2000	American Art	Worldly Goods will highlight more than 350 fine examples of furniture, textiles, silver, metalwork, ceramics, prints, maps, books and paintings from this seminal place and time, lent by private collections and museums.
1999	The Kingdoms of Edward Hicks	October 10, 1999–January 2, 2000	American Art	The exhibition will include paintings, decorated objects, as well as important manuscript materials that illuminate Hick's deep spirituality, artistic talent, and intense interest in the doctrinal controversies that divided his fellow Quakers in the early years of the 19th century.
1999	Thinking on Copper: Plates and Proofs by John Marin	October 16, 1999–February 13, 2000	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This installation will include a variety of copper plates, trial proofs, and published prints Marin executed for ten separate projects dating from 1909 to 1948.
1999	Museum Studies 5: Gabriel Orozco	October 27, 1999–December 12, 1999	Modern and Contemporary Art	Photogravity will cast fresh light on the world-renowned collection of Pre-Columbian sculpture that was given to the Museum in 1950 by Louise and Walter Arensberg, together with their remarkable collection of twentieth-century art.
1999	Designing the Future: Three Directions for the New Millennium	November 17, 1999–March 26, 2000	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	This exhibition showcases the work of three accomplished young designers who promise to have lasting influence on design in the 21st century.
1999	Just Desserts: An 18th Century Table Setting	November 23, 1999–June 18, 2000	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	Arrangement of the dessert's centerpiece was often patterned after designs like those illustrated by the famous French confectioner Joseph Gilliers in his 1751 Le Cannameliste français. Just Desserts: An Eighteenth-Century Table Setting is based on one such design.
1999	Recent Acquisitions: Prints and Drawings from the 1960s to the Present	November 26, 1999–April 2, 2000	Prints, Drawings, and Photograph	This installation features a selection of some fifty prints and drawings dating from the 1960s to the present that were acquired during the last five years.
1999	Nocturnal and Melodic Romantic: Saverio Lucariello	November 30, 1999–February 6, 2000	Modern and Contemporary Art

Year	Title	Dates	Department	Additional Info
2000	Earthly Gods and Heavenly Kings: Painting Royalty and Divinity in India	January 22, 2000–October 15, 2000	Indian and Himalayan Art	This exhibition of works from the Museum's permanent collection explores not only the varied roles of royalty and divinity in India, but also the intriguingly blurred boundaries between the two.
2000	Revivals, Reveries, and Reconstructions: Images of Antiquity in Old Master Prints	February 5, 2000–April 16, 2000	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The exhibition will feature a spectacular selection of paintings, sculpture, works on paper, decorative arts, architectural renderings and models—some 380 works.
2000	An Exuberant Bounty: Prints and Drawings by African Americans	February 5, 2000–April 16, 2000	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	A chronological survey of some 70 pieces selected from the Museum's holdings of over 200 works of art on paper by 20th-century African Americans.
2000	Sarah Morris	February 8, 2000–March 12, 2000	Modern and Contemporary Art
2000	New Acquisitions: Robert Motherwell’s A la Pintura and In Plato’s Cave	February 19, 2000–May 21, 2000	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Recently acquired and important works by Robert Motherwell (1915–91), one of the foremost Abstract Expressionist painters in the United States, will be exhibited for the first time in this installation, featuring the print portfolio A la Pintura (1968–1972) and the painting In Plato's Cave (1973).
2000	The Splendor of 18th Century Rome	March 16, 2000–May 28, 2000	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	Includes a spectacular array of paintings, sculpture, works on paper, decorative arts, architectural renderings and models—some 380 works of art by more than 160 artists.
2000	Celebrating the Eight: American Modernism from the Potamkin Collection	March 23, 2000–July 2, 2000	Modern and Contemporary Art	This installation focuses on a selection of spectacular paintings by The Eight given to the Museum as gifts from the noted collectors, Dr. and Mrs. Meyer P. Potamkin.
2000	Contemporary Fiber from the Permanent Collection	April 4, 2000–December 3, 2000	Costume and Textiles	Selections from the Philadelphia Museum of Art's growing collection of contemporary works in fiber are exhibited in conjunction with the April 8 symposium, "Discovered Collections: Fiber Art in Museums," organized by the Friends of Fiber Art International.
2000	Works from the Collection by Philadelphia-Area Photographers	April 15, 2000–August 20, 2000	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Among the Museum's treasures are images by photographers working in and around Philadelphia. This installation showcases their works, many of which are on view for the first time, in both color and black-and-white.
2000	Mary Ellen Mark: Photographs	May 13, 2000–August 6, 2000	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The exhibition will feature some 141 black-and-white photographs, many of which have never been exhibited.
2000	For Your Eyes Only—Looking Closely at Works of Art on Paper	May 27, 2000–September 10, 2000	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Close study of drawing materials—pastels, crayons, chalks, pencils, pens, inks and watercolors— lends insight to the creative approaches of artists and helps viewers understand works of art within the context of their period.
2000	Japanese Noh Costumes from the Collection	May 27, 2000–May 20, 2001	Costume and Textiles	This installation, which coincides with The Arts of Hon'ami Koetsu, Japanese Renaissance Master (on view at the Museum from July 29 through October 29, 2000), will include eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century examples of several types of Noh robes from the Museum's permanent collection of Costume and Textiles.
2000	Armor from Dresden: Complementing the Collections	May 30, 2000–2004	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
2000	Tea, Poetry, and Rimpa: Works from Japan	July 1, 2000–April 29, 2001	East Asian Art
2000	Wind in the Mountains: Chinese Ming Dynasty Painting and Calligraphy	July 1, 2000–June 17, 2001	East Asian Art	Wind in the Mountains complements The Arts of Hon'ami Koetsu, Japanese Renaissance Master (on view from July 29 to October 29, 2000), an exhibition of more than 100 objects, ranging from calligraphy and printed books to ceramics and lacquerwork, drawn from collections throughout Japan, Europe, and the United States.
2000	Inside Out: Art Work by Inmates at the State Correctional Institution at Frackville Pennsylvania	June 30, 2000-August 6, 2000	Division of Education
2000	The Arts of Hon’ami Koetsu, Japanese Renaissance Master	July 29, 2000–October 29, 2000	East Asian Art	An exhibition of more than 100 objects, ranging from calligraphy and printed books to ceramics and lacquerwork, drawn from collections throughout Japan, Europe and the United States.
2000	American Folk Paintings from the Collection	August 26, 2000–November 5, 2000	American Art
2000	When Reason Dreams: Drawings Inspired by the Visionary, the Fantastic, and the Unreal	August 26, 2000–October 29, 2000	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The exhibition brings together a selection of works on paper from the Museum's collection that evoke the spiritual, dreamlike, or surreal.
2000	The Nightingale’s Song: Nurses and Nursing in the Ars Medica Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art	August 26, 2000–October 29, 2000	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The 80 prints, drawings, and photographs in the show span six centuries and four continents.
2000	The Spirit of Korea	September 13, 2000–August 27, 2002	East Asian Art	This installation highlights the Museum's Korean art collection. The earliest pieces include fourth-century stoneware vessels. The collection is particularly strong in Koryo Dynasty celadon wares. Also on view are Buddhist and secular subjects in paintings and sculpture, as well as furniture.
2000	Currents in Clay	September 13, 2000 (or June 5, 1999?)–May 9, 2004	East Asian Art	This installation includes a focused selection of contemporary ceramics from the Museum's Japanese collections.
2000	Portrait Drawings from the Collection	September 16, 2000–January 7, 2001	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This installation of about twenty-five drawings from the Museum's permanent collection has been organized to coincide with Van Gogh: Face to Face (October 22, 2000–January 14, 2001). Dating from the late eighteenth century to about 1940, the portraits are by established masters such as Edgar Degas, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Sir Thomas Lawrence, as well as by less-known artists such as Caroline Durieux and Knud Merrild.
2000	Gary Hill: Remarks on Color	October 6, 2000–November 20, 2000	Modern and Contemporary Art
2000	Van Gogh: Face to Face	October 22, 2000–January 14, 2001	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	This exhibition will focus, for the first time, on Van Gogh's evolving approach to the portrait throughout a tragically brief life.
2000	Picturing the Divine	October 24, 2000–June 10, 2001	Indian and Himalayan Art	Exquisite and often unusual depictions of the multifaceted Hindu deities of India—their adventures, families, incarnations, and esoteric forms—are the focus of this exhibition of masterworks from the Museum's collection.
2000	Milton Glaser: Design, Influence and Progress	November 15, 2000–January 21, 2001	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	This focused retrospective exhibition illustrates the variety and invention of his design process
2000	Voyage of Discovery: The Landscape Photographs of Ray K. Metzker	November 18, 2000–February 11, 2001	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	More than 100 prints from a remarkable body of photographs created by Ray K. Metzker between 1985 and 1998, most of which has never before been exhibited.
2000	Andy Warhol: 15 Screen Tests	November 21, 2000–January 7, 2001	Modern and Contemporary Art
2000	Dorothea Tanning: Birthday and Beyond	November 24, 2000–January 14, 2001	Modern and Contemporary Art	The exhibition will present a salute to Dorothea Tanning, the artitist first one-person exhibition in an American museum.
2000	Modern Hits Home: Mid-Century American Decorative Arts	December 9, 2000–October 22, 2001	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	This selection of mid-twentieth century American decorative arts from the collection, ranging from kitchenwares to lounge chairs, focuses upon Post World War II design innovations.
2001	Mariko Mori	January 10, 2001–February 11, 2001	Modern and Contemporary Art
2001	The City Beautiful: Photogravures by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1909–10	January 20, 2001–April 22, 2001	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Some thirty cityscapes from the Museum's collection will demonstrate how Coburn employed photogravure, a photomechanical process using printer's ink, to reveal photography as an art in its own right.
2001	Flights of Fancy: Six Centuries of Ornament and Pattern on Paper	January 27, 2001–April 8, 2001	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition presents vivid images of vines and arabesques, borders and frames, vases and vessels, architectural ornament, decorative letters, and works that demonstrate the calligraphic use of line.
2001	Alice Neel	February 18, 2001–April 15, 2001	Modern and Contemporary Art	Organized with the full cooperation of the artist's family, this exhibition features 75 paintings and watercolors, many of which have never been previously exhibited.
2001	Intimate Worlds: Masterpieces of Indian Painting from the Alvin O. Bellak Collection	March 2, 2001–April 29, 2001	Indian and Himalayan Art	The exhibition spans the period from before the rise of Islamic Mughal rule in northern India during the 1500s to the heyday of the British Raj in the late 19th century.
2001	Leaves of Gold: Treasures of Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections	March 10, 2001–May 13, 2001	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	The Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries, in collaboration with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and other exhibition partners, surveyed the holdings in area libraries and museums.
2001	Howard Hodgkin	March 24, 2001–May 20, 2001	Modern and Contemporary Art	Drawn from Philadelphia area collections, this focused installation of about a dozen paintings by Hodgkin range in date from the late 1960s, when the artist was associated with the British Pop Art movement; through the 1980s, when his vibrantly colored panel paintings brought him international recognition; to the present, with works revealing a dramatic change in scale and ambition.
2001	In Celebration: Needlework Treasures from the Philadelphia Museum of Art (The 2001 Philadelphia Antiques Show)	April 7, 2001–April 11, 2001	Costume and Textiles
2001	Inside and Outside Time: Finally Revealed!	April 18, 2001–June 3, 2001	Modern and Contemporary Art
2001	The World of Peggy Bacon	April 28, 2001–September 2, 2001	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The installation of about 30 drawings and prints by the American artist Peggy Bacon (1895–1987) includes book illustrations, preliminary studies for prints, her earliest drypoints as well as etchings from the 1920s and 1930s.
2001	Philadelphia Modernism: Arthur B. Carles and His Circle	May 10, 2001–August 12, 2001	Modern and Contemporary Art	This installation celebrates the adventurous paintings of Philadelphia artist Arthur B. Carles (1882–1952) and his circle of friends, students, and colleagues.
2001	West Meets East: China and Japan at the Centennial Exhibition	May 10, 2001–June 26, 2002	East Asian Art	The Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (now the Philadelphia Museum of Art) acquired many objects from exhibitors of the national displays of China, Japan, India, Tunis, Turkey, and Morocco.
2001	Needlework from the Nineteenth Century	May 26, 2001–March 3, 2002	Costume and Textiles	Needlework from the Nineteenth Century highlights the artistic talent and technical skill of the needlewomen of the century.
2001	Desert Blizzard	June 5, 2001–July 8, 2001	Modern and Contemporary Art
2001	Out of the Ordinary: The Architecture and Design of Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates	June 10, 2001–August 5, 2001	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	One of the most influential architectural design and planning firms of the last half-century is the subject of this first-ever retrospective exhibition.
2001	Spiritual Seekers: Asceticism and Piety in Indian Painting	June 19, 2001–December 9, 2001	Indian and Himalayan Art	Indian painters are the subject of this exhibition of painting and textiles from the Museum's collection. Dating from the mid-fifteenth century to the early-twentieth century, the works convey aspects of the search for spiritual realization.
2001	Jacques Villon, Poet of Precision: A New Acquisition in Context	June 23, 2001–September 30, 2001	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The exhibition demonstrates the Museum's rich context for the new acquisition and its impact upon the Museum's existing holdings.
2001	Transcendent Bliss: Chinese Buddhist Art from the Collection	June 23, 2001–August 11, 2002	East Asian Art	This exhibition takes as its subjects these beings and the transcendent bliss they seek. Featured are selected examples of carved and molded sculptures, colorful textiles and paintings, and sacred texts created for devotion and display.
2001	Elemental Landscapes: Photographs by Harry Callahan	June 23, 2001–September 30, 2001	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Callahan took many of his photographs within proximity of one another and the exhibition explores his interest in these variations.
2001	Masterpiece in Focus: Cezanne’s The Feast (c. 1870)	June 23, 2001–December 15, 2001	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
2001	Tea, Poetry, and Rimpa: Works From Japan	July 1, 2000–April 29, 2001		Hon'ami Koetsu, the seventeenth-century Japanese artist, renowned for his contributions to the arts of tea, poetry, and Rimpa (a bold decorative style that took imagery from the natural world and native classical literature as its subject.)
2001	Running Tape	July 10, 2001–August 19, 2001	Modern and Contemporary Art
2001	A Most Exquisite Display: European Ceramics at the Centennial Exhibition	July 28, 2001–October 28, 2001	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	European ceramics figured prominently among the objects acquired from the exhibition by the newly founded Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, later the Philadelphia Museum of Art, whose founders were committed to providing the public and those in industry with objects of good design and craftsmanship.
2001	Keith Sonnier, Video Work of the 1970s	August 21, 2001–October 14, 2001	Modern and Contemporary Art
2001	The Discerning Eye of Julien Levy: Selections from a New Acquisition	September 8, 2001–December 2, 2001	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Among the highlights are works by such artists associated with Surrealism as Max Ernst, Dora Maar, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, and Man Ray, along with examples from the more than 360 images by Eugène Atget. Also on view are two photographs taken in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, by Charles Sheeler, along with three Joseph Cornell boxes.
2001	Lorenzo di Credi’s Venus	September 15, 2001–December 9, 2001	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	In conjunction with Philadelphia's Splendor of Florence Festival (October 10–14, 2001), a major Renaissance painting, Venus, by Florentine artist Lorenzo di Credi (about 1456–1536) will be on view at the Museum.
2001	From Sacred Groves to Country Roads: Pastoral Themes in European and American Drawings, 1730–1980	September 15, 2001–January 20, 2002	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The installation of some thirty drawings, watercolors, gouaches, and pastels reflects a variety of rustic themes: sacred groves; herdsmen and their animals; idyllic landscapes with classical allusions; and the earthy produce of field and farm so often invoked to celebrate autumn.
2001	Thomas Eakins: American Realist	October 4, 2001–January 6, 2002	American Art	The exhibition presents a spectacular loan exhibition surveying, for the first time in nearly 20 years, the career of this enormously challenging, controversial, and influential artist.
2001	Recent Video from Belgium	October 16, 2001–January 20, 2002	Modern and Contemporary Art
2001	Dox Thrash: An African American Master Printmaker Rediscovered	October 27, 2001–February 25, 2002	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This major retrospective, which includes some 60 prints and 30 drawings and watercolors, documents for the first time the artistic achievements of Dox Thrash, an important African American artist who rose to national prominence during the late 1930s.
2001	Hands On: Japanese Craft and Design of the 20th Century	November 7, 2001–September 15, 2002	East Asian Art	This exhibition from the permanent collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art features a range of Japanese objects of striking form and design. Included are furniture, lighting, textiles, ceramics, lacquerware, posters, and even sporting equipment.
2001	Collab Collects: Notable Acquisitions in Design, 1970–2000	November 14, 2001–April 21, 2002	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	This installation celebrates Collab's thirty years of enthusiastic support for contemporary design at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
2001	Calligraphy for the Queen: Indo-Islamic Art at the 1876 Centennial	November 14, 2001–October 20, 2002	East Asian Art	Among the items shown at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial were calligraphy pages specifically penned as offerings for Queen Victoria.
2001	Pennsylvania Impressionism	November 17, 2001–March 31, 2002	Modern and Contemporary Art	Widely known as the New Hope School, their work is featured in this exhibition of 18 paintings drawn from the holdings of the Museum and from local private collections.
2001	Italian Renaissance Ceramics: The Howard I. and Janet H. Stein Collection	December 8, 2001–April 28, 2002	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	An exhibition of Renaissance maiolica in which the collection formed by Mr. Stein and his late wife is combined with related ceramics from Museum holdings.
2001	Celebrating 125 Years: A Museum Family Album	December 15, 2001–April 7, 2002		Through photographs, documents, and artifacts, the rich history of the Philadelphia Museum of Art is recounted in honor of its 125th anniversary.
2001	Monkey Tales: Images of Hanuman in Indian Art	December 18, 2001–June 2, 2002	Indian and Himalayan Art	This exhibition of paintings, puppets, and textiles from the Museum's collection is an introduction to this revered figure of Indian culture as well as a journey through India's rich and varied arts.
2002	Human Interest	January 22, 2002–June 2, 2002	Modern and Contemporary Art
2002	Hot off the Press: American Publishers’ Posters of the 1890s	January 25, 2002–May 19, 2002	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The bold shapes and bright colors of Penfield's design introduced an American audience to the Art Nouveau style in the graphic arts, which had been broadly launched in Paris two years earlier.
2002	The Plot Thickens: Narrative in British Printmaking, 1700–1900	March 16, 2002–June 23, 2002	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition, featuring some fifty prints drawn from the Museum's permanent collection, explores Britain's fascination with narrative art during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
2002	Barnett Newman	March 24, 2002–July 7, 2002	Modern and Contemporary Art	This retrospective exhibition assembles more than 100 works not seen together in over 30 years.
2002	Out of the Box: 20th Century Print Portfolios	March 30, 2002–June 23, 2002	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition examines the portfolio as a vital format in twentieth-century European and American printmaking.
2002	Toile Tales: Conservation of European Printed Textiles	March 30, 2002–June 1, 2003	Costume and Textiles	This installation from the department of Costume and Textiles shows how curators and conservators preserve printed textiles in the Museum's collection.
2002	Michael Hoffman: A Tribute in Pictures	April 27, 2002–August 11, 2002	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The groups of photographs on view here, acquired by gift and purchase for the Museum's collection, pay tribute to Hoffman's abiding vision of the importance of photography as an art form and as a powerful expression of the human spirit.
2002	Dogs in Art	April 27, 2002–June 2003	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	Paintings of working dogs, pet dogs and a caricature of the important Philadelphia art collector John G. Johnson are included in this installation.
2002	Calders on the Parkway	May 13, 2002–March 31, 2009	Modern and Contemporary Art
2002	Form in Art	May 17, 2002–June 30, 2002	Division of Education
2002	It’s Your Move: Chess Sets from the Collection	May 18, 2002–July 21, 2002	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	The Philadelphia Museum of Art explores the art of chess with It's Your Move, an installation from the Museum's collection that brings together chess sets from across many centuries and cultures.
2002	Ellsworth Kelly: Series of Ten Lithographs	May 25, 2002–August 25, 2002	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Ten Lithographs (1970) was the first of many successful projects undertaken by Ellsworth Kelly (American, born 1923) with Gemini G.E.L., a print workshop that became known for its willingness to produce prints of large size and unusual complexity.
2002	Gabriel Orozco ́s Jaipur Kites	June 4, 2002–August 18, 2002	Modern and Contemporary Art
2002	Love by the Book: Painting and Poetry in India	June 18, 2002–January 12, 2003	Indian and Himalayan Art	Poetic treatises on the nature of love inspired the subject matter of many Indian paintings made during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
2002	Munakata Shiko: Japanese Master of the Modern Print	July 27, 2002–November 10, 2002	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	More than 100 prints from all phases of the artist’s career, along with a selection of his paintings, calligraphy, and ceramics, are on view.
2002	Indivisible: Stories of American Community	August 10, 2002–October 6, 2002	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This nationally touring museum exhibition focuses upon the challenges faced by communities in cities across the United States.
2002	Design: Recent Acquisitions	August 10, 2002–November 3, 2002	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	This installation features recent additions to the Museum's collection of modern and contemporary design, and includes a range of objects, from posters and wallpaper to kitchen utensils, furniture, and lighting.
2002	Time/Travel	August 20, 2002–November 3, 2002	Modern and Contemporary Art
2002	Odyssey of Light: Photographs from the Collection	August 24, 2002–February 9, 2003	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition of more than fifty-five photographs demonstrates the breadth of the Museum's collection, tracing the development of the medium from the early 1840s to the present.
2002	Museum Studies 6: Richard Hamilton	August 31, 2002–November 3, 2002	Modern and Contemporary Art	For the sixth installment of the Museum Studies program, Hamilton has created a computer-generated diagram of The Large Glass, over which he has superimposed the English translations of Duchamp's notes, so that each visual element is united with the written ideas and schematic designs that preceded it.
2002	The Arts of Korea: Selections from the Collection	August 31, 2002–June 25, 2006	East Asian Art
2002	The Etching Club of London: A Taste for Painters’ Etchings	August 31, 2002–February 9, 2003	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This installation, displaying over thirty rare prints primarily from the Muriel and Philip Berman Gift of European Prints, examines the revival of etching in 19th-century Britain by the Etching Club of London.
2002	Crafting a Legacy: Contemporary American Crafts in the Philadelphia Museum of Art	September 26, 2002–August 10, 2003	American Art	Selections from the Museum's American contemporary craft collection are showcased in this exhibition of ceramics, glass, fiber, metalwork, wood, and furniture pieces by both locally and nationally known artists.
2002	Gifts in Honor of the Museum’s 125th Anniversary	September 29, 2002–December 8, 2002		Anniversary acquisitions encompasses a number of exciting purchases, made possible by generous contributions of funds raised for the specific purpose of enhancing the Museum's collections.
2002	Divine Union: The Transformation of Desire in Himalayan Art	October 8, 2002–July 2003	Indian and Himalayan Art	This installation of paintings and sculptures from Tibet, Nepal and northern India features divine couples from the Buddhist and Hindu pantheons.
2002	Scenes from the Shahnama and Khavarannama	October 22, 2002–November 27, 2005	East Asian Art	This installation features seven fifteenth-and sixteenth-century miniatures, originally made for bound books, which combine text and images from the Shahnama.
2002	Giorgio de Chirico and the Myth of Ariadne	November 3, 2002–January 5, 2003	Modern and Contemporary Art	This exhibition brings together, for the first time, the entire Ariadne series.
2002	Shirin Neshat: Passage	November 5, 2002–January 26, 2003	Modern and Contemporary Art
2002	The Light Magic of Ingo Maurer	November 20, 2002–March 30, 2003	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	Installations of this internationally acclaimed artist's work will illuminate the Museum's eighteenth-century French salon as well as contemporary design gallery 170 this winter.
2002	Translations and Transformations: Chinese Themes in Japanese Art	November 30, 2002–October 31, 2003	East Asian Art	A group of thirty screens, hanging scrolls, and decorative arts from the Museum’s collection illustrate these and other themes from Chinese art by Japanese artists.
2002	Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, Chicago, 1937–1971	December 7, 2002–March 2, 2003	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	In addition to important works by Moholy-Nagy, Callahan, and Siskind, the exhibition will feature the work of Barbara Crane, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Joseph Jachna, Kenneth Josephson, Gyorgy Kepes, Nathan Lerner, Ray K. Metzker, Richard Nickel, Arthur Siegel, Art Sinsabaugh, and others.
2003	Stories, Ceremonies, and Souvenirs: Popular Painting from Eastern India	January 21, 2003–July, 2003	Indian and Himalayan Art	painters who made souvenirs for pilgrims at holy sites; minstrel-painters who walked from place to place singing and selling their wares; painter-magicians who delivered the souls of the dead from the afterworld; village women who decorated the walls of their homes for celebrations and festivals.
2003	Dance & Video: Interactions	January 28, 2003–May 11, 2003	Modern and Contemporary Art
2003	Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas	February 12, 2003–May 11, 2003	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	Drawn from the Museum's collection, these works reveal the intersection—both personal and artistic—of these two great Impressionist painters.
2003	Degas and the Dance	February 12, 2003–May 11, 2003	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	Edgar Degas and the ballet are virtually synonymous. Dancers—shown in every phase of their complex and demanding art form—make up more than fifty percent of his abundant output.
2003	Nineteenth-Century Pastels	February 18, 2003–ongoing	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
2003	Street Smarts: Photographs by William Klein	February 22, 2003–July 13, 2003	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Klein extended his technical experimentation—harsh flash, wide-angle shots, blurring, and grainy printing—to create gritty, chaotic pictures in other major cities in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
2003	The Art of the Burin: Engraving in Northern Europe in the Age of Durer	March 22, 2003–May 25, 2003	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition focuses on the first century of engraving, a meticulous new printmaking technique that developed in the Medieval goldsmith's workshop in the mid-1400s.
2003	Have a Bite: 20th Century Flatware from the Collection	April 12, 2003–October 26, 2003	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	The installation will include some thirty flatware sets from the Museum's collection of modern and contemporary design.
2003	Bruce Nauman	May 13, 2003–August 3, 2003	Modern and Contemporary Art
2003	Museum Studies 7: Christian Marclay, the Bell and the Glass	May 17, 2003–July 27, 2003	Modern and Contemporary Art	The project is the seventh in a series of Museum Studies installations by living artists created specifically for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and it is the fifth in the 2002/03 Future Sounds series by Relâche Ensemble
2003	Ladies’ Choice: American Women’s Fashions, 1950–1965	June 6, 2003–May 16, 2004	Costume and Textiles	Fashion in the 1950s and early 1960s reflected this resurgence of idealized femininity. In an era of American history that has often been called conformist, the taste of the time extolled circumspect feminine behavior and a ladylike appearance.
2003	Louis Faurer: A Photographic Retrospective	June 14, 2003–September 7, 2003	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Featured are 137 photographs spanning the years 1937 to 1983, with a special emphasis on Faurer's highly innovative photographs from 1947 to 1951.
2003	Warren Rohrer: Paintings 1972–1993	June 22, 2003–August 17, 2003	Modern and Contemporary Art	This exhibition will explore the art of one of the premier abstract painters to work in Philadelphia in the twentieth century, bringing together a selection of approximately 30 exemplary paintings from the years 1972–1993.
2003	American Viewpoints	July 1, 2003–early September 2003	American Art
2003	Eye on Mexico: Photographs from the Collection	July 26, 2003–December 7, 2003	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This installation of more than fifty works from the collection features photographs by Mexican artists including Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Emilio Amero, and Graciela Iturbide, alongside images taken in Mexico by photographers from outside the country, such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Helen Levitt, Paul Strand, Danny Lyon, and others inspired by the landscape and culture of Mexico.
2003	Seriously Animated	August 5, 2003–November 16, 2003	Modern and Contemporary Art
2003	Learned Lamas: The Teacher in Tibetan Art	August 16, 2003–February 29, 2004	Indian and Himalayan Art	Learned Lamas: The Teacher in Tibetan Art brings together a selection of expressive and powerful works to explore this unique portrait tradition, one that reveals the interplay between the flaws of being human and the vision of the ideal.
2003	India’s Middle Ground: Art of the Deccan	August 16, 2003–February 29, 2004	Indian and Himalayan Art	India's Middle Ground: Art of the Deccan gathers together works from the Museum's collection to showcase the region's artistic, cultural, and religious diversity.
2003	Mountain Dreams: Contemporary Ceramics by Yoon Kwang-cho	September 2, 2003–January 4, 2004	East Asian Art	This exhibition includes over 25 works drawn from various museum and private collections and marks the artist's first solo exhibition in an American museum.
2003	Syng of Philadelphia, Tercentenary 2003: Philadelphia Silversmith and American Patriot	September 9, 2003–December 31, 2003	American Art
2003	Shocking! The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli	September 28, 2003–January 4, 2004	American Art	The first major retrospective exhibition and catalogue to examine the ways in which Elsa Schiaparelli's creations mirrored the social, political, and cultural climate of her times.
2003	Popular, Pop & Post-Pop: Color Screenprints 1930s to Now	October 11, 2003–January 25, 2004	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition surveys the development of the screenprint from its popular commercial origins, through its depression-era struggle for artistic legitimacy, to the peak of production in the Pop Art era and absorption into the multi-media orientation of printmaking today.
2003	Chinese Export Porcelain for India	November 2003–	East Asian Art
2003	The Morrison Triptych: A Visiting Masterpiece	November 6, 2003–January 11, 2004	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	Study of the painting has revealed, among other things, how the artist took the common triptych form (a central painting flanked by paintings on two shutters that close over it) and by dispensing with the frames that typically surrounded the shutters, achieved incomparable qualities of illusion.
2003	Libations: Wine and Tea in East Asia	November 13, 2003–May 15, 2005	East Asian Art	This exhibition explores the art and artifacts of tea and wine from the most ancient Chinese ritual wine vessels to a contemporary Korean teapot.
2003	Elegant Innovations: American Rookwood Pottery, 1880–1960: The Gerald and Virginia Gordon Collection	November 15, 2003–March 21, 2004	American Art	This exhibiton illustrates the international artistic movements that inspired the designs of Rookwood artists—such as Art Nouveau, Art Moderne, and Art Deco—and includes splendid examples that reflect an interest in Persia, Japan, and American Indians.
2003	Burt Barr, Autumn: One of the Four Seasons	November 18, 2003–January 25, 2004	Modern and Contemporary Art
2003	Work in Process: Gluckman Mayner Designs the Perelman Building	November 19, 2003–April 4, 2004	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	This installation focuses on Gluckman’s work in progress for the Perelman Building.
2003	The Faceless Figure: Photographs from the Collection	December 20, 2003–June 27, 2004	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	In this exhibition of more than fifty photographs from the Museum's collection, artists purposely defy our expectations and the conventions of portraiture by taking pictures of people whose faces we can’t see.
2004	Flying High: Selections from the Permanent Collection	January 27, 2004–April 18, 2004	Modern and Contemporary Art
2004	Fiske Kimball	February 3, 2004–February 8, 2004
2004	Manet and the Sea	February 15, 2004–May 31, 2004	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	The exhibition includes approximately one hundred objects—paintings, watercolors, and drawings—from sixty public and private collections in the United States and abroad.
2004	American Marine Paintings	February 15, 2004–May 31, 2004	American Art	On view in the Dorrance corridor and American galleries are ship portraits, naval battle scenes, whaling pictures, and seascapes by a wide range of American artists, including Thomas Birch, Edward Moran, William Trost Richards, Winslow Homer, and Childe Hassam.
2004	To Instruct and Delight: Prints and Illustrated Books in 18th Century France	February 21, 2004–May 16, 2004	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The prints in this exhibition capture the ebullient spirit of the eighteenth century in France during the Age of Enlightenment.
2004	Rembrandt as Printmaker	March 8, 2004–July 1, 2004	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The Philadelphia Museum of Art is proud to present two recently acquired masterpieces of printmaking by Rembrandt van Rijn, Christ Preaching and Christ Crucified between Two Thieves, more popularly known as The Three Crosses.
2004	Primary Colors: Paintings from 17th Century Central India and 18th Century Nepal	March (or May?) 13, 2004–October 11, 2004	Indian and Himalayan Art	Featuring some thirty works from the Museums collection.
2004	One or Many: Modern Design and Craft from the Collection	April 17, 2004–October 23, 2004	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	This installation, drawn from the Museum's collection, juxtaposes objects of modern design and craft in thought-provoking and occasionally whimsical ways.
2004	Gary Hill: Remarks on Color	April 20, 2004–June 13, 2004	Modern and Contemporary Art
2004	Small Worlds: Portrait Miniatures from the Jeannette B. Stern Whitebook Collection	May 1, 2004–July 11, 2004	American Art	The Whitebook collection contains works painted on ivory, parchment, porcelain and copper that span more than four centuries and includes important miniatures by Robert Field, Jean Baptiste Isabey, Edward Greene Malbone, James Peale, and Christian Friedrich Zincke.
2004	The Big Nothing	May 1, 2004–August 1, 2004	Modern and Contemporary Art	The project aims to explore "nothing," a concept that has intrigued artists since the beginning of the twentieth century, when abstract art came to the fore.
2004	Woven for Comfort and Joy: 19th Century American Coverlets	May 22, 2004–April 10, 2005	Costume and Textiles	View coverlets illustrating the characteristics of various weaving techniques.
2004	Glorious Harvest: Photographs from the Michael E. Hoffman Tribute Collection	June 12, 2004–October 3, 2004	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Seen for the first time in this comprehensive exhibition, the group of pictures was assembled in honor of legendary curator and publisher Michael E. Hoffman (1942–2001) with donations from artists with whom he worked during his active career.
2004	Anne Katrine Dolven: Still Life	June 16, 2004–August 1, 2004	Modern and Contemporary Art
2004	Jacques Lipchitz and Philadelphia	June 27, 2004–August 22, 2004	Modern and Contemporary Art	This exhibition traces the development of Lipchitz’s art as represented in the Museum’s holdings and selected objects from local area private collections, as well as some related works by other artists.
2004	Underfoot: Photographs by Irving Penn	July 10, 2004–November 28, 2004	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Now in his seventh decade as a working photographer, Penn has recently turned his attention to patches of discarded chewing gum on the sidewalks of New York City.
2004	Korea Now!	July 19, 2004–February 23, 2005	East Asian Art	Recent acquisitions of Korean contemporary art in all media.
2004	Chinese Snuff Bottles from the Collection	July 20, 2004–ongoing	East Asian Art
2004	Andrea Fraser: Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk	August 3, 2004–October 24, 2004	Modern and Contemporary Art
2004	The Poetry of Clay: The Art of Toshiko Takaezu	August 7, 2004–March 6, 2005	American Art	This exhibition features ceramics, weavings, and a monumental bronze bell by the American artist Toshiko Takaezu.
2004	A Young Woman Seated at the Virginals by Johannes Vermeer	August 11, 2004–April 26, 2005	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	The opportunity to see a Vermeer in Philadelphia has been very rare since the Widener Collection went to the National Gallery in Washington in 1942.
2004	Echoes: Celebrating 75 Years of Rodin in Philadelphia	September 10, 2004–June 15, 2005	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	On the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of this celebrated showcase of works by the great French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840–1917).
2004	African Art, African Voices: Long Steps Never Broke a Back	October 2, 2004–January 2, 2005	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	The exhibition includes approximately 130 objects, including sculpture, masks, textiles, jewelry, photographs, film, and contemporary art.
2004	Masterpieces of Indian Painting from the Alvin O. Bellak Collection, A Tribute	October 9, 2004–April 24, 2005	Indian and Himalayan Art	Twenty "miniature" paintings from the Rajput courts of India, dating from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries.
2004	Himalayan Texts and Charms	October 23, 2004–April 24, 2005	Indian and Himalayan Art	This installation showcases diverse examples of books, book covers, illuminated manuscripts, and printed charms, as well as paintings and sculptures of book-holding deities to explore the art and the power of the written word in Nepal and Tibet.
2004	Peter Rose: Odysseus in Ithaca	October 26, 2004–February 9, 2005	Modern and Contemporary Art
2004	Italian Master Drawings: 1540–Present	October 30, 2004–February 21, 2005	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition draws largely on two acquisitions that have greatly enhanced the Museum’s reputation in the field of Italian art.
2004	Florence Knoll Bassett: Defining Modern	November 17, 2004–April 10, 2005	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	The exhibition includes some eleven pieces of the furniture she designed for Knoll, Inc., as well as photographs of interiors that demonstrate the designer’s ability to relate interior design to the building, and furniture and textiles to the interior.
2004	Pontormo, Bronzino, and the Medici: The Transformation of the Renaissance Portrait in Florence	November 20, 2004–February 13, 2005	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	The exhibition includes some forty works and is enriched by a group of drawings from the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi (the Drawing and Print Room of the Uffizi) in Florence, which holds the greatest cache of drawings by Pontormo and Bronzino.
2004	Bill Viola: The Greeting	November 20, 2004–February 13, 2005	Modern and Contemporary Art	Special video exhibition.
2004	Lewis and Clark Revisited: A Trail in Modern Day, Photographs by Greg MacGregor	December 11, 2004–February 6, 2005	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The exhibition is part of a city-wide celebration of the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
2005	Stuart Davis and American Abstraction: A Masterpiece in Focus	January 15, 2005-April 17, 2005	Modern and Contemporary Art	An array of paintings, prints, and drawings from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, including Davis’s early nautical work. Also on view is work by Davis’s contemporaries.
2005	Altogether American: Tucker Porcelain from the Philadelphia Museum of Art (The New York Ceramics Fair 2005)	January 19, 2005-January 23, 2005	American Art
2005	Dalí and the Cinema	February 11, 2005-May 30, 2005	Modern and Contemporary Art
2005	Salvador Dali	February 16, 2005-May 30, 2005	Modern and Contemporary Art	This exhibition considers all aspects of the artist's long and controversial career. Over 200 works of art are on view, many of which are being shown in the United States for the first time.
2005	The Silver Garden	February 19, 2005-July 17, 2005	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Coinciding with Philadelphia’s annual Flower Show, this choice bouquet of more than fifty photographs from the Museum’s collection illustrates the enduring fascination with flowers and plants from the first decades of the medium to the present.
2005	Paradise Found: Buddhist Art of Korea	February 26, 2005-June 25, 2006	East Asian Art	Paradise Found: Buddhist Art of Korea celebrates the varied and little known Buddhist art of Korea. It features ancient art objects from the Three Kingdoms period (57 B.C.– A.D. 668) to the Chŏson period (1392–1910) in various mediums: sculpture, painting, metalwork, and ceramics.
2005	Quack, Quack, Quack: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera & Books	March 19, 2005-July 17, 2005	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This lively exhibition traces the history of the colorful purveyors of patent and quack medicines over the past four centuries.
2005	Contemporary Crafts from the Collection	March 19, 2005-August 20, 2006	American Art	With over thirty objects from the Museum's esteemed crafts collection, this exhibition highlights postwar and contemporary crafts from the United States and Japan.
2005	At the Window: Etchings by Edward Hopper	April 9, 2005-July 31, 2005	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition traces the evolution in his prints of many of the signature subjects of the artist’s mature style, such as the isolated figure by a window and other intimate glimpses of contemporary American life.
2005	Transformed: Uncommon Materials in Contemporary Design	April 23, 2005-October 9, 2005	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	This installation from the Museum's collection includes furniture, lighting, textiles and utilitarian objects, many of them recent acquisitions, which reflect contemporary designers' interest in varying materials.
2005	Fashion’s Favorites: From Rococo to Romantic	April 23, 2005-June 18, 2006	Costume and Textiles	Women's dresses underwent dramatic changes in silhouette and ornamentation between the 1750s and 1830s. This exhibition will highlight their stylish evolution, from an elaborate Rococo gown worn over wide panniers to a slim, high-waisted Neoclassical frock to a romantic creation with large leg-of-mutton sleeves.
2005	The Academy Goes Modern	April 30, 2005-October 16, 2005	Modern and Contemporary Art	This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the oldest art museum and school in the United States.
2005	Irish Silver	May 5, 2005 - August 31, 2008	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	The great age of domestic Irish silver began in the closing decades of the seventeenth century and lasted until the years shortly after the Act of Union of 1800, when Ireland merged with the Kingdom of Great Britain (today split into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland).
2005	The Arts of Korea: Selections from the Collection	May 5, 2005-June 25, 2006	East Asian Art	This exhibition includes recent acquisitions of major works of Korean painting, sculpture, ceramics, metalwork, lacquer, and furniture. Among the works on display are a cast iron and stone sculptures, outstanding examples of Korean potter's art, fine celadon wares, and a rare dragon jar.
2005	Mongols, Manchus, and Monks: The Art of Tibetan Diplomacy	May 7, 2005-November 6, 2005	Indian and Himalayan Art	In 1779 and 1780, Mongolian artists worked feverishly to paint, sculpt, and sew images of elegant Buddhist deities to adorn Xumifushou Temple in time for the Emperor's seventieth birthday celebrations.
2005	Book Arts of India	May 7, 2005-November 6, 2005	Indian and Himalayan Art	Examples of bound books, book covers, loose folios, and other items from the Museum's collection, this exhibition will explore facets of the India's rich tradition of book production and illustration.
2005	Kacho-ga: Flowers and Birds in Japanese Art	May 28, 2005-September 24, 2006	East Asian Art	This exhibition includes paintings and decorative art, and shows continuity and comparisons over time and across media in Japanese art
2005	Homage to Duchamp (Part I): Yasumasa Morimura's Cometman, 1991	May 31, 2005-August 28, 2005	Modern and Contemporary Art
2005	Poussin to Cézanne: French Drawings from the Prat Collection	July 16, 2005 - September 25, 2005	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The Prat Collection is one of the finest private collections of drawings in the world, highlighting some three centuries of work by French artists active before 1900 and including drawings by great masters as well as superb examples by lesser known artists. The one hundred drawings on display in the exhibition will reflect the panorama of French draftsmanship and will include some of the finest examples from the collection.

Year	Title	Dates	Department	Additional Info
2005	Eighteenth- and Nineteenth- Century French Drawings from the Collection	July 16, 2005-September 25, 2005	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
2005	Mavericks of Color: Photographs from the Collection	July 30, 2005-December 4, 2005	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition presents a rare look at more than fifty photographs from the Museum’s collection by several of the most dedicated early practitioners of color photography: Eliot Porter, William Christenberry, Joel Meyerowitz, and William Eggleston. Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
2005	Homage to Duchamp (Part II): Nam June Paik and Shigeko Kubota	August 30, 2005-November 6, 2005	Modern and Contemporary Art
2005	Looking at Atget	September 10, 2005-November 27, 2005	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition and its accompanying catalogue contrast some of the compelling accounts of Eugène Atget's photography and provide a close look at the Museum's recently acquired group of 350 works by the artist from the estate of the influential art dealer Julien Levy.
2005	Edvard Munch’s Mermaid	September 24, 2005-December 31, 2005	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	This exhibition will include approximately twenty paintings, drawings, and prints, chronicling Munch’s development of the mermaid subject and exploring relationships between Philadelphia’s painting and central themes that run throughout the artist’s work.
2005	Jacob van Ruisdael: Dutch Master of Landscape	October 23, 2005-February 5, 2006	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	This exhibition allows modern viewers to rediscover the breathtaking beauty of one of the greatest and most beloved practitioners of landscape art.
2005	Beauford Delaney: From New York to Paris	November 13, 2005-January 29, 2006	Modern and Contemporary Art	The groundbreaking exhibition presents for the first time the story of this African American artist's development from a vibrant figurative painter of New York City scenes to a mature abstract expressionist capturing the moods of Paris.
2005	Beauford Delaney in Context: Selections from the Collection	November 13, 2005-February 26, 2006	Modern and Contemporary Art	Beauford Delaney in Context situates Delaney's creative output within a broader framework by presenting paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and furniture from the Museum's collection that relate to various aspects of the artist's extraordinary career.
2005	Gary Simmons, Desert Blizzard	November 15, 2005-April 7, 2006	Modern and Contemporary Art
2005	Gaetano Pesce: Pushing the Limits	November 18, 2005-April 9, 2006	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	Gaetano Pesce, multidisciplinary artist in design, visual art, architecture, and planning, collaborates with the Museum in creating his first museum exhibition in the United States in nearly a decade.
2005	Why the Wild Things Are: Personal Demons & Himalayan Protectors	November 23, 2005-May 28, 2006	Indian and Himalayan Art	Why the Wild Things Are brings together seldom-exhibited paintings and sculptures from the Museum’s superb collection of Tibetan and Nepalese art. Gory, fearsome, and bursting with energy, images of the "Angry Ones" reveal a distinctive Himalayan vision of the awesome power hiding within each of us, our own "personal demons."
2005	Adventures in a Perfect World: North Indian Narrative Paintings, 1750-1850	November 23, 2005-July 6, 2006	Indian and Himalayan Art	Between about 1750 and 1850, painters in the Himalayan foothill region of northern India perfected a vision of a courtly world where flowering trees framed uniformly beautiful people. These painters often illustrated the texts favored by their royal patrons—especially popular were sections of the ancient Hindu epics.
2005	The Arts of War and Peace: Persian Miniatures from the Collection	November 29, 2005-December 17, 2006	East Asian Art	The Arts of War and Peace: Persian Miniatures from the Collection features a selection of illuminated manuscript pages by Persian artists dating from the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries.
2005	The Secret Life of Buildings: Photographs by Clarence John Laughlin	December 17, 2005-April 30, 2006	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Haunting, suggestive, and poetic, this selection of photographs made between 1940 and the mid-1960s examines how Clarence John Laughlin used architecture— particularly the architecture of New Orleans—as a point of departure for his own explorations of human psychology.
2005	A Natural Attraction: Dutch and Flemish Landscape Prints from Bruegal to Rembrandt	December 17, 2005-February 12, 2006	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition of some sixty sixteenth- and seventeenth-century prints from the Museum's extensive collection of Dutch and Flemish prints traces the growth of landscape as a hallmark of Netherlandish printmaking. A special highlight of the presentation is seven etchings by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn.
2006	American Cornucopia: Treasures from the Philadelphia Museum of Art	January 21, 2006–February 26, 2006	American Art
2006	Ellsworth Kelly: Paris/New York, 1949–1959	March 11, 2006–August 13, 2006; October 3, 2006–February 24, 2008	Modern and Contemporary Art
2006	Recent Acquisitions: Prints and Drawings from Durer to Doig	March 11, 2006–May 21, 2006	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition features a choice selection of prints and drawings, from old master prints to contemporary art on paper, acquired in the last five years. Over one hundred works are featured, spanning from the fifteenth century to the present day.
2006	An American Anthology: Paintings from the Philadelphia Museum of Art	March 28, 2006–September 21, 2006	American Art
2006	Andrew Wyeth: Memory and Magic	March 29, 2006–July 16, 2006	Modern and Contemporary Art	Andrew Wyeth, one of America’s most recognized and beloved artists, is the subject of a compelling retrospective that takes a fresh look at seven decades of accomplishment. The exhibition includes approximately one hundred tempera paintings, watercolors, and drawings, many from the personal collection of Andrew and Betsy Wyeth.
2006	Andrew Wyeth in Context	March 29, 2006–July 16, 2006	Modern and Contemporary Art
2006	Fit for a Princess: Grace Kelly’s Wedding Dress	April 1, 2006–May 21, 2006	Costume and Textiles	To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the fairy tale wedding of Grace Kelly to Monaco’s Prince Rainier III, the Museum presents an exhibition focusing on Princess Grace’s famous wedding dress.
2006	Saving a Colonial Masterpiece: Mount Pleasant Restored	April 7, 2006–April 2007	American Art
2006	Notations: Energy Yes!	April 8, 2006–October 30, 2006	Modern and Contemporary Art	The "Notations" series explores contemporary art in the Museum’s expanding collection, allowing for experimentation with various exhibition alternatives. Energy Yes!, the first installment in the series, highlights works that address both the literal and metaphorical meanings of energy
2006	Live Cinema: Gordon Matta-Clark	April 15, 2006–July 9, 2006	Modern and Contemporary Art	A new series of film and video programs, Live Cinema explores the diversity of single channel video and film work by number of local, national, and international artists.
2006	Someone’s in the Kitchen: Culinary Design Objects from the Collection	April 22, 2006–October 22, 2006	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	Featuring objects created for use in the preparation of food, this exhibition illustrates some of the creative approaches designers have taken to these utilitarian objects as well as how changes in technology, materials, and lifestyle have influenced their design.
2006	In Pursuit of Genius: Jean-Antoine Houdon and the Sculpted Portraits of Benjamin Franklin	May 13, 2006–July 2006	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	Focusing on Jean-Antoine Houdon's marble portrait bust of Benjamin Franklin, this exhibition explores the nature of this famous image as a distinguished artistic creation and illuminates its place within French Enlightenment sculpture. Significant sculpted portraits by Houdon, as well as renderings of Franklin by other French artists are included.
2006	Summer Vacation: Photographs from the Collection	May 13, 2006–September 10, 2006	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Kick off your own summer celebration with images of sailors and swimmers, baseball and bike riding, and carnivals and cookouts. This exhibition of more than fifty works reflects the sizzle of the summer season from a variety of perspectives, with pictures by Harry Callahan, Elliott Erwitt, William Klein, George Krause, Robert Adams, and others.
2006	Crouching Spider by Louise Bourgeois	May 24, 2006–March 26, 2007	Modern and Contemporary Art	Crouching Spider, a gigantic sculpture of bronze and stainless steel made up of a globular body and long, attenuated legs, is part of a celebrated series of spider sculptures that Louise Bourgeois produced beginning in the early 1990s. Measuring 106½ x 329 x 247 inches, this extraordinary work is at once both threatening and playful.
2006	Andrew Wyeth and the American Landscape Tradition	May 27, 2006–July 16, 2006	Modern and Contemporary Art	Coinciding with the Andrew Wyeth: Memory and Magic exhibition, this installation draws upon the Museum’s extensive holdings of landscape paintings, specifically highlighting works dated from 1900 until today.
2006	Gilding the Lotus: Enriching the Himalayan Collection	June 10, 2006–November 26, 2006	ndian and Himalayan Art	As symbols of material and spiritual wealth, gold, ivory, and gemstones are especially revered in the Buddhist and Hindu art of Tibet and Nepal. This exhibition not only reflects this love of visual opulence, but also emphasizes the Museum’s historic and continuing dedication to enriching understanding of the sophisticated religious arts of the Himalayan region.
2006	Dreaming in Black and White: Photography at the Julien Levy Gallery	June 17, 2006–September 17, 2006	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition celebrates the centenary of the birth of Julien Levy, one of the most prominent and impassioned champions of Surrealism, with a survey of Levy’s personal collection of photographs. Works by Americans such as Walker Evans, Man Ray, Ralph Steiner, Joseph Cornell, and Lee Miller are included, as well as several examples gathered from Levy's travels to France, Germany, and Mexico.
2006	Pop Art and Its Affinities	July 29, 2006–June 2008
2006	Presidential China	July 1, 2006–2007	American Art
2006	The Bizarre and the Beautiful: Silks of the Eighteenth Century	July 1, 2006–November 11, 2007	Costume and Textiles	Opulent and exuberant, this focused exhibition explores silk—indisputably fashion's favored fabric in the eighteenth century—with 13 objects from the Museum's collections.
2006	Celebrate Korea: A Decade of Collecting	July 8, 2006–September 23, 2007	East Asian Art	Featuring screen paintings, hanging scrolls, furniture, and ceramics, this exhibition examines a decade of Korean art collecting at the Museum, made possible through the support of the Korean Heritage Group.
2006	Lines of Thought: Indian Drawings from the Dean Walker Collection	July 15, 2006–November 26, 2006	Indian and Himalayan Art	As part of his fascination with the creative process, Dean Walker (1948–2005), the Museum's Henry P. McIlhenny Senior Curator of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture for over fifteen years, collected sketches and preparatory drawings from India, exhibited here for the first time. With their visible revisions of composition, idiosyncrasies of hand, color notations, didactic exercises, and much more, these charming works on paper demonstrate the stages of creating "miniature" paintings and provide a fascinating insight into the thought processes of the artists.
2006	Pop Art and Its Affinities	July 29, 2006–February 29, 2008	Modern and Contemporary Art	Highlighting works from the 1960s and early 1970s, this installation captures a pivotal moment in the history of American art and features artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg.
2006	Celebrating American Craft: 30 Years of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show	September 19, 2006–October 21, 2007	American Art	This exhibition celebrates the 30th year of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, organized annually by the Women's Committee of the Museum. The outstanding objects on view in this exhibition demonstrate the vitality of the field of contemporary American crafts.
2006	Tesoros/Treasures/Tesouros: The Arts in Latin America, 1492–1820	September 20, 2006–December 31, 2006	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	Drawn from public and private collections throughout the Americas and in Europe, Tesoros / Treasures / Tesouros: The Arts in Latin America, 1492–1820 spans the centuries from the arrival of Columbus to the emergence of national independence movements, including spectacular examples of painting, sculpture, feather-work, shell-inlaid furniture, objects in gold and silver, ceramics, and textiles.
2006	Modern People: A Tribute to Arnold Newman	September 23, 2006–March 4, 2007	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition, drawn from the Museum collections, is a tribute to Arnold Newman (1918–2006)—one of the great portrait photographers of his time. It includes a number of photographs that were part of his first solo exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1945, as well as a selection of portraits by his contemporaries that demonstrate the range of modern portrait photography.
2006	Latin American Colonial Art from the Collections	September 29, 2006–January 31, 2007	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	This exhibition celebrates the Museum's long-standing interest in the art of the New World with paintings on copper and canvas, ceramics, and textiles.
2006	Live Cinema: Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk	September 30, 2006–November 10, 2006	Modern and Contemporary Art	A series of film and video programs, Live Cinema explores the diversity of single channel video and film work by number of local, national, and international artists. Andrea Fraser's humorous and subversive Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk brings to light the subtle, yet intrinsic, preconceptions that shape the public's relationship to art institutions.
2006	Ellsworth Kelly: Paris/New York, 1949–1959	October 3, 2006–April 8, 2009	Modern and Contemporary Art	The paintings in this exhibition illustrate the significant changes in the work of Ellsworth Kelly during a formative period, when the artist experimented with strategies that would prove to be instrumental to his artistic development.
2006	Ellsworth Kelly in Resonance: Selections from the Collection	October 7, 2006–February 4, 2007	Modern and Contemporary Art	Between 1948 and 1954, American artist Ellsworth Kelly lived in Paris, where he met a number of artists and developed the distinctive artistic practices for which he is known. The remarkable range of styles in this exhibition, featuring a selection of works by various artists, reveals the impressive reach of Kelly’s artistic practice, particularly his xperimentation with color, technique, and composition.
2006	Japanese Literati Culture in the Edo Period	October 7, 2006–November 11, 2007	East Asian Art	In the seventeenth century, in response to the ideas of self-expression traveling from China, the Japanese created their own, highly sophisticated version of the Chinese literati culture. This exhibition explores the works of art that flourished as a result, including collaborative works such as handscrolls, albums, and sets of fans, as well as unique objects created by individual artists
2006	Mexican Modernism and Its Influence	October 13, 2006–end of March 2007	Modern and Contemporary Art
2006	New York Dada	October 19, 2006–ongoing	Modern and Contemporary Art	The New York Dadaists were an eccentric, international group that gathered at the Manhattan apartment of art collectors Walter and Louise Arensberg between 1915 and 1921. Their works reflect a shared interest in everyday, readymade objects, and their impact reached far beyond their brief existence as an avant-garde group.
2006	Mexico and Modern Printmaking: A Revolution in the Graphic Arts, 1920–1950	October 21, 2006–January 14, 2007	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition presents 125 prints and posters that emerged in post-Revolution Mexico as the ideal means for disseminating political, social, and artistic ideas. It represents the groundbreaking contributions of 50 Mexican and foreign-born artists at a pivotal moment in Mexican art
2006	Live Cinema/Mircea Cantor: The Title is the Last Thing	November 11, 2006–February 27, 2007	Modern and Contemporary Art	A new series of film and video programs, Live Cinema explores the diversity of single channel video and film work by local, national, and international artists. The Title Is the Last Thing features a series of eight videos by Mircea Cantor as well as a selection of photographs and objects that offer poignant commentary on the relationship between time and labor, politics, tourism, and history.
2006	George Jensen Silversmiths	November 17, 2006–April 1, 2007	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	This exhibition focuses on the Danish silversmith Georg Jensen (1866–1935) and the renowned group of designers who helped establish the company he founded as one of the world’s most important silverwares firms.
2006	Notations: Out of Words	November 24, 2006–June 24, 2007	Modern and Contemporary Art	Gathering works of art in which words are conceived not only as communicational tools but also as visual and physical things in themselves, this exhibition highlights objects from the Museum's collections that date from the 1960s to the present, and points to the importance of text in contemporary art.
2006	Conserving a Tibetan Altar	December 9, 2006–May 27, 2007	Indian and Himalayan Art	This installation displays—for the first time—a newly cleaned Tibetan altar adorned with intricately carved niches and lively paintings. It explores both the conservation of the altar as well as its cultural context, and reveals hidden mysteries of the altar’s construction and decoration.
2006	Fantastic and Functional Animals in Indian Art	December 9, 2006–June 30, 2007	Indian and Himalayan Art	This exhibition draws from the Museum's rich collection of "miniature" paintings to explore the many meanings of India's scaly, feathery, and furry inhabitants, both natural and supernatural.
2007	Thomas Eakins’ The Gross Clinic	January 5, 2007–March 4, 2007	American Art	This exhibition focuses on Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), an icon of Philadelphia since it was painted in 1875. The masterpiece of the young Thomas Eakins, an artist born and educated in Philadelphia, this is acclaimed as the greatest American painting of the nineteenth century
2007	Contemporary Art on Paper	February 9, 2007–April 22, 2007	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Selected from one of the liveliest sectors of the Museum's collection of works of art on paper, this exhibition presents mostly large, contemporary art from the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs. Many of these objects have only been seen recently by visitors to the department’s study room and several have never before been shown in the galleries.
2007	Thomas Chimes: Adventures in ‘Pataphysics	February 27, 2007–May 6, 2007	Modern and Contemporary Art	This retrospective exhibition celebrates the life and work of Thomas Chimes, arguably one of the most important artists to emerge on the Philadelphia art scene since World War II. It includes approximately 100 paintings and works on paper, many previously unseen, along with extensive biographical and archival material.
2007	Bosch and Bruegel in the John G. Johnson Collection	March 1, 2007–February 7, 2008	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	This exhibition features a selection of works from the John G. Johnson Collection by Hieronymus Bosch and his followers, as well as the family and followers of Antwerp printmaker and painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
2007	Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla's "Under Discussion"	March 3, 2007–April 16, 2007	Modern and Contemporary Art
2007	Room for Revolution: George Washington and His Philadelphia Friends	March 16, 2007–August 30, 2007	American Art	Charles Willson Peale's George Washington at Princeton is on view at the Museum on an extended loan from a private collection. This visually striking and finely executed life-size portrait records Washington's 6-foot-2-inch frame in a pose projecting strength, composure, and elegance.
2007	Live Cinema/Marine Hugonnier: Trilogy	April 20, 2007–July 22, 2007	Modern and Contemporary Art	Marine Hugonnier's Trilogy, the third installment of Live Cinema, engages with what Hugonnier refers to as the "politics of vision": the notion that perception is determined by cultural, political, and actual perspective.
2007	Particulars of Place: Photo Portfolios from the Collection	April 21, 2007–December 9, 2007	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition from the Museum's collections showcases a variety of artists who have created portfolios—boxes containing series of prints—that capture a sense of place.
2007	Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran: Japanese Masters of the Brush	May 1, 2007–July 22, 2007	East Asian Art	This presentation marks the first time an exhibition in the United States has focused on the eighteenth-century Japanese master of ink painting Ike Taiga (1723–1776) and his wife Tokuyama Gyokuran (1727–1784), with 200 exceptional and rarely seen works of art.
2007	Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand by Thomas Eakins	May 17, 2007–May 3, 2010	American Art	The first in a celebrated series by Thomas Eakins to focus on physicians and scientists, this magnificent portrait is on loan from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. It is being shown at the Museum in context with major works by Eakins and his contemporaries, including Cecilia Beaux, Thomas Moran, and Henry Ossawa Tanner.
2007	William H. Johnson’s World on Paper	May 19, 2007–August 12, 2007	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition examines, for the first time, the achievements of African American modernist William H. Johnson (1901–1970)—often considered one of the most inventive artists of his generation—as a graphic artist. Eighty works of art on paper provide an overview of the artist's career both in Europe in the 1930s and in New York in the 1940s.
2007	Tibetan Ritual Arts	June 2, 2007–December 9, 2007	Indian and Himalayan Art	This exhibition, built around the Museum's recently conserved Tibetan-Buddhist altar, explores Tibetan art intended for ritual use. It reveals the coded meanings not only of Tibetan ritual implements, but also paintings, sculptures, textiles, prints, and the altar itself.
2007	Forging an American Identity: The Art of William Ranney	June 26, 2007–August 19, 2007	American Art	The first retrospective of nineteenth-century narrative painter William Ranney's (1813–1857) work to be held in 40 years, this exhibition brings together over 60 paintings that significantly contributed to the concept of the American character.
2007	The Artist as Witness: Images of Native Americans by William Ranney's Contemporaries	June 26, 2007–August 19, 2007	American Art
2007	The Book of War: The Free Library of Philadelphia’s Mughal Razmnama Folios	July 14, 2007–December 9, 2007	Indian and Himalayan Art	Among the many treasures of the John Frederick Lewis Collection in the Free Library of Philadelphia are 25 elaborately illustrated folios from a single Mughal manuscript, the Razmnama (literally, "Book of War"), dated to 1598–99. This exhibition is the first time since 1923 that all 25 of the Free Library's pages are being shown together, affording a rare opportunity to explore, through the lens of a single manuscript, an exciting moment of artistic experimentation and cultural exchange.
2007	Notations: Kiefer, Polke, Richter	July 21, 2007–November 25, 2007	Modern and Contemporary Art	This exhibition explores the ways in which Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke, and Gerhard Richter, three of the most important European contemporary painters of the postwar period, question the relevance of history painting; examine the relationship between painting and photography; and emphasize the necessity for experimentation to redefine the technical possibilities of painting.
2007	18th Century English Silver from the Collection	July 28, 2007–March 23, 2008	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	Drawn from the Museum's permanent collection, this exhibition presents some 30 pieces of silver by such important eighteenth-century English silversmiths as David Willaume and Paul de Lamerie. It also includes examples of the major eighteenth-century styles, from the simple forms of the Queen Anne style in the early years of the century, to the exuberant shapes and decoration of the Rococo style at mid-century, to the refinement of the antique as represented by the Neoclassical style at century's end.
2007	A Landmark Transformed: The History and Architecture of the Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building	September 15, 2007–Fall 2008
2007	Alfred Stieglitz and the Philadelphia Museum of Art	September 15, 2007–February 17, 2008	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This inaugural exhibition in the Levy Gallery, in its new location in the Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building, pays tribute to the Museum's integral and treasured holding of photographs by Alfred Stieglitz. The exhibition features a selection of approximately 40 masterpieces that demonstrate the range of both Stieglitz's work and the collection.
2007	A Passion for Perfection: James Galanos, Gustave Tassell, Ralph Rucci	September 15, 2007–March 9, 2008	Costume and Textiles	The opening exhibition in the Joan Spain Gallery, A Passion for Perfection highlights works from the Museum's costume collection by three award-winning fashion designers from Philadelphia: James Galanos, Gustave Tassell, and Ralph Rucci.
2007	A Conversation in Three Dimensions: Sculpture from the Collections	September 15, 2007–May 26, 2008	Modern and Contemporary Art	Literally bringing to light infrequently seen sculpture from the Museum's collections, this inaugural exhibition features large-scale works of art by twentieth-century masters such as Pablo Picasso, Anselm Kiefer, Sol LeWitt, Mark diSuvero, and Richard Long.
2007	From the Renaissance to the Surreal: Gifts to the Library and Archives	September 15, 2007–December 11, 2008		Complementing works of art donated to the Philadelphia Museum of Art over the years, generous patrons have also given thousands of books and manuscripts to the Library and Archives. The Library and Archives is showcasing these wonderful treasures in a series of exhibitions in its new home in the Perelman Building.
2007	Designing Modern: 1920 to the Present	September 15, 2007–September 14, 2008	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	Designing Modern: 1920 to the Present opens Collab's new gallery in the Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building with a chronological look at the Museum's collection of modern and contemporary decorative art. On entering the gallery, object platforms joined together and punctuated by four vertical display cases illustrate major movements in design history: Art Deco and the Bauhaus; American and Scandinavian Modern Design; Italian Design; and Postmodernism.
2007	The Art of Lee Miller	September 15, 2007–January 4, 2009	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition celebrates Lee Miller (1907–1977), one of the most original and ambitious photographic artists of the twentieth century. From model to photographer to war correspondent, her extraordinary career is chronicled in this first complete retrospective, exploring her transformation from artist's muse to ground-breaking artist.
2007	American Art in the Age of Impressionism	October 4, 2007–January 6, 2008	American Art
2007	Renoir Landscapes	October 4, 2007–January 6, 2008	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	This exhibition is the first to explore the inventiveness and importance of landscapes during the first decades of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's (1841–1919) career. Approximately 60 paintings reveal the subtlety of touch; vaporous effects; and lush, full-blown color that mark the painter as one of the most audacious and original landscape artists of his age.
2007	Clay, Wood, and Paper: Materials for Korean Art	October 6, 2007–February 28, 2009	East Asian Art
2007	Antonio Mancini: 19th Century Italian Master	October 20, 2007–January 20, 2008	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	Marking the first exhibition in the United States devoted exclusively to Antonio Mancini, one of the most prominent Italian painters of the late nineteenth century, this exhibition highlights a unique group of paintings and pastels that recently entered the Museum's collections as a gift from the estate of the American art collector and dealer Vance N. Jordan. Additional paintings complement and provide context for the Museum’s acquisitions.
2007	Costumes and Textiles: Recent Acquisitions from A to Z	November 3, 2007–April 27, 2008	Costume and Textiles	The inaugural installation in the Costume and Textiles Study Gallery features a selection of textiles, historic costume, and contemporary fashion acquired by the Museum during the past decade. Illustrating the encyclopedic nature of the costume and textiles collection, the objects on view include works of amazing beauty and rarity, examples of exquisite workmanship and design, items of historic significance—and sometimes the unexpected.
2007	Precious Possessions: The American Craft Collection	November 3, 2007–October 26, 2008	American Art	Precious Possessions celebrates the breadth of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s American craft collection, with its luxurious works of art in glass, metal, clay, fiber, and wood. The objects on view demonstrate the Museum’s early commitment to contemporary craft and encompass a wide range of highlights from the collection: old favorites that have not been displayed for some time and several works that are making their first appearance in the galleries.
2007	Live Cinema/The Return of the Image: Video from Central Asia	November 16, 2007–February 17, 2008	Modern and Contemporary Art	This survey of video works by contemporary artists from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, Live Cinema/The Return of the Image: Video from Central Asia, explores recent developments in the artistic production of a region currently underrepresented in the international art world.
2007	Cornucopia: Recent Acquisitions in Japanese Art	November 24, 2007–November 16, 2008	East Asian Art	Showcasing a variety of objects that celebrate the Museum's steadily growing collection of Japanese art, this exhibition features paintings, a display of lacquer vessels, and a selection of contemporary works of art.
2007	Imagining Cathay: 18th and Early 19th Century Chinoiserie Textiles and Embroideries from the Collection	December 8, 2007–December 2008	Costume and Textiles	For Europeans during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, China—or Cathay as it was sometimes called—was a magical place. This exhibition includes nine Chinoiserie textiles and embroideries from the Museum's outstanding collection.
2007	Notations/William Kentridge: Tapestries	December 12, 2007–April 6, 2008	Modern and Contemporary Art	With work encompassing drawing, video, sculpture and theater, William Kentridge has become one of the strongest artistic voices to emerge in post-apartheid South Africa. This exhibition, part of the Museum's ongoing "Notations" series, showcases a group of tapestries from a series conceived by Kentridge and executed under his artistic direction between 2001 and 2007. Additional works on view include etchings, bronze sculptures, and drawings.
2007	A Flute in the Forest: Tales of Young Krishna	December 22, 2007–June 1, 2008	Indian and Himalayan Art	This exhibition draws together 25 paintings from the Museum's collections as well as sculpture, textiles, and ritual arts that depict the beloved young god Krishna who, for many Hindus, is the ultimate deity, as well as an avatar of Vishnu.
2007	Marvels of the Malla Period: A Nepalese Renaissance 1200–1603	December 22, 2007–December 7, 2008	Indian and Himalayan Art	In this exhibition, the Museum presents masterpieces from its outstanding collection of rarely seen Malla Period art. Vibrant Buddhist ritual paintings burst with energy, a marvelous goddess coyly dances, and golden Hindu and Buddhist sculptures regally invite adoration.
2008	American Folk Painting from the Collection	January 12, 2008–March 23, 2008; July 19, 2008–December 2008	American Art
2008	Fragile Demon: Juan Soriano in Mexico, 1935–1950	February 16, 2008–May 11, 2008	Modern and Contemporary Art	This is the first U.S. exhibition in a major museum to focus on the early work of Juan Soriano, a pivotal painter in the history of modern Mexican art. Soriano has been cited as a bridge between the Mexican School of realistic painting of the 1930s and 1940s and the internationalist avant-garde trends of mid-century.
2008	Juan Soriano in Context	February 16, 2008–May 11, 2008	Modern and Contemporary Art
2008	Renaissance Lombardy in the John G. Johnson Collection	February 16, 2008–November 23, 2008	European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection	Drawing from the John G. Johnson’s rich collections in Italian Renaissance painting, which included every region of Italy, this installation consists of 10 rare paintings from late fifteenth and early sixteenth-century Lombardy of which Milan was the capital.
2008	Frida Kahlo	February 20, 2008–May 18, 2008	Modern and Contemporary Art	Organized in celebration of the centenary of the artist's birth, this exhibition of over 40 paintings focuses on Frida Kahlo's extraordinary self-portraits. Also on view are portraits and still-life paintings, in which Kahlo projects her passions, both personal and political, onto other people's likenesses or everyday objects.
2008	Frida Kahlo in Context	February 20, 2008–May 18, 2008	Modern and Contemporary Art
2008	Transcending the Literal: Photographs by Ansel Adams from the Collection	March 1, 2008–August 17, 2008	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	More than 20 years after his death, Ansel Adams (1902–1984) remains one of the world’s most beloved and widely exhibited American photographers. Comprised of more than 40 photographs selected from the Museum’s extensive holdings of the artist’s work, this exhibition focuses on Adams’s less-familiar landscape images in order to demonstrate his innate understanding of graphic form and balanced design.
2008	Colonial Philadelphia Porcelain: The Art of Bonnin and Morris	March 8, 2008–June 1, 2008	American Art	In this landmark exhibition, the 19 known surviving examples of soft-paste porcelain made at Philadelphia’s American China Manufactory between 1770 and 1772 and commonly referred to by the names of the proprietors, Bonnin and Morris, are being brought together for the first time.
2008	Turned and Thrown: English Pottery 1660–1820	March 29, 2008–July 27, 2008	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	These exceptional objects celebrate the inventiveness and ingenuity of anonymous potters active in England from the end of the seventeenth century to the early decades of the nineteenth century.
2008	Emerging to Established: 25 Years of the Center for Emerging Visual Arts	April 5, 2008–July 6, 2008	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Organized to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of a dynamic Philadelphia arts institution—the Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA)—this exhibition presents a varied and accomplished selection of works on paper by twenty-five artists.
2008	Live Cinema/Carlos Amorales: Four Animations, Five Drawings, and a Plague	April 11, 2008–July 13, 2008	Modern and Contemporary Art	Over the last decade, Carlos Amorales has developed a unique visual vocabulary that he has used and reused, both alone and in collaboration with other artists, in mediums ranging from drawing and animation to installation and performance.
2008	Fashioning Kimono: Art Deco and Modernism in Japan	April 26, 2008–July 20, 2008	Costume and Textiles	The Japanese kimono is celebrated worldwide for its elegant, distinctive silhouette. Though quintessentially Japanese, the kimono form has influenced fashion designers around the globe. This exhibition features kimono created in the early to mid-twentieth century, one of the most dynamic periods in the history of Japan's national costume.
2008	Notations: Gilbert and George	May 2, 2008–November 2, 2008	Modern and Contemporary Art	From the outset of their joint career, Gilbert and George explored and redefined picture making while bridging the gap between art and life.
2008	Hello! Fashion: Kansai Yamamoto, 1971–1973	May 24, 2008–August 2009	Costume and Textiles	Kansai Yamamoto is one of the founding fathers of Japanese contemporary fashion. Best known for his work during the 1970s and 1980s, his avant-garde designs are inspired by the colorful Azuchi-Momoyama period (1568–1600) and traditional Kabuki theatre. The exuberant Pop-like quality of his work contrasts with what is today associated with Japanese fashion, Zen-like simplicity and deconstructed silhouettes.
2008	Curious and Commonplace: European Popular Prints of the 1800s	May 31, 2008–August 24, 2008	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition of more than eighty works selected from the Museum’s rich collection of popular prints invites the public to enter a forgotten world of fantastic and familiar imagery.
2008	Multiple Modernities: India, 1905–2005	June 14, 2008–December 7, 2008	Indian and Himalayan Art	This exhibition brings together over twenty-five drawings, prints, and watercolor paintings to explore “contemporary” art on the Indian subcontinent over the past century, a period that witnessed dramatic social and artistic transformations
2008	Rhythms of India: The Art of Nandalal Bose (1882–1966)	June 27, 2008–September 1, 2008	Indian and Himalayan Art	This is the first exhibition to travel outside of Asia showcasing the exquisite and historically groundbreaking work of Nandalal Bose, a major artist who has been called "the father of Indian modernism" and one of the "patriarchs of India’s cultural revival."
2008	The Fix on Colonial Philadelphia Furniture: A Secret Guide to Cabinetmakers’ Prices	July 3, 2008–February 22, 2009	American Art	In 1772, a group of Philadelphia master cabinetmakers published Prices of Cabinet and Chair Work, a 36-page book listing furniture forms and their decorative variations, retail prices for furniture in mahogany and walnut, and the wages to be paid to the journeymen who made the furniture. This exhibition features furniture that is delineated in the book of prices, including three large case pieces with the three types of tops, or "heads", from least expensive to most expensive: flat, pitch pediment, and scroll pediment.
2008	Calder Jewelry	July 12, 2008–November 2, 2008	American Art	This exhibition focuses on the jewelry of artist Alexander Calder (1898–1976), which functions as sculpture on a small scale while retaining the linear yet three-dimensional aspect of the monumental mobiles for which he is known.
2008	American Folk Painting from the Collection	July 19, 2008–December 2008	American Art	The paintings in this exhibition illustrate the diverse practice of folk artists working in the northeastern United States during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The selection demonstrates the array of individual styles inspired by different creative environments outside the "academic" art world, from the professional painter trained in a commercial workshop to the self-taught artist or amateur.
2008	Philadelphia Treasures: Eakins's "Gross Clinic" and Saint-Gaudens's "Angel of Purity"	August 2, 2008–July 19, 2009	American Art	The Museum welcomes two masterpieces made for Philadelphia by two of nineteenth-century America’s finest artists, Thomas Eakins and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Close contemporaries and friends, they both trained in Paris and traveled in Europe before returning to the United States about 1870 to begin distinguished careers. Sharing a belief in the expressive power of the human body as a subject for modern painting and sculpture, they developed different styles.
2008	Quilt Stories: The Ella King Torrey Collection of African American Quilts and Other Recent Quilt Acquisitions	August 16, 2008–March 1, 2009	Costume and Textiles	This exhibition includes thirteen examples by leading Southern quilt makers. The collection was formed between 1981 and 1983 while Ms. Torrey was conducting fieldwork on African American quilt-making with Maud Southwell Wahlman.
2008	Pictured in Blue and White: English Ceramics of the Nineteenth Century	August 31, 2008–June 15, 2009	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	Among the some thirty pieces in this installation are a number with views of Philadelphia landmarks including the Dam and Water Works on the Schuylkill River, the Bank of the United States and the Philadelphia Library Company building.
2008	Photo Mandalas: Bill Armstrong and Milan Fano Blatný	September 6, 2008–February 1, 2009	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This visually bold exhibition of more than thirty photographs brings together two contemporary artists, Bill Armstrong and Milan Fano Blatný, whose work has been inspired by the ancient form of the mandala
2008	Linda Day Clark: The Gee’s Bend Photographs	September 16, 2008–December 14, 2008		This installation features compelling images of the women of Gee's Bend and their life in rural Alabama, taken by visual artist Linda Day Clark.
2008	Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt	September 16, 2008–December 14, 2008	Costume and Textiles	This exhibition takes a fresh look at the quilting tradition in Gee’s Bend, Alabama, introducing new artists and new motifs in works ranging from the early twentieth century through 2005.
2008	Thomas Chambers (1808–1869): American Marine and Landscape Painter	September 27, 2008–December 28, 2008	American Art	The mysterious Thomas Chambers arrived in the United States from England in 1832, worked for three decades as a marine and landscape painter, and then disappeared after 1866, leaving behind a boldly expressive and puzzling body of work. This exhibition—the first major survey of Chambers’ work since his rediscovery in 1942—seeks to define his style, examine his sources, and investigate the popular audience for landscape and marine painting in the mid-nineteenth century.
2008	Heroism and Treachery: Paintings from the Safavid and Mughal Empires	October 1, 2008–June 28, 2009	Indian and Himalayan Art	What makes a king or noble honorable? How does a hero act? The seven illustrations in this exhibition come from manuscripts created in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries under the Safavid rulers of Iran (Persia) and the Mughals of India. Each demonstrates a feat of heroism or an act of justice befitting a good Islamic ruler.
2008	Live Cinema/Anita Sieff: Films	October 3, 2008–January 4, 2009	Modern and Contemporary Art	This installment of Live Cinema focuses on the video work of Italian artist Anita Sieff. Inspired by filmmakers such as Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, and Luchino Visconti, Sieff explores in non-linear narratives the interactions between disparate characters bestowed with allegorical qualities
2008	James Castle: A Retrospective	October 14, 2008–January 4, 2009	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	James Castle: A Retrospective marks the first comprehensive museum exhibition of the work of James Castle, an artist who, despite undergoing no formal or conventional training, is especially admired for the unique homemade quality combined with an acute visual sensibility that characterizes his work.
2008	Cultural Convergence: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Craft	November 1, 2008–April 19, 2009	American Art	This exhibition highlights a selection of purchases, gifts, and bequests since the year 2000—a group so varied it encompasses the Museum’s departments of American Art, Costume and Textiles, East Asian Art, and European Decorative Arts.
2008	Frank O. Gehry: Design Process and the Lewis House	November 8, 2008–April 5, 2009	European Decorative Arts and Sculpture	This exhibition explores for the first time how a decade-long residential commission for Peter Lewis in Lyndhurst, Ohio (1985–1995), gave Frank Gehry a unique opportunity to experiment, and in the process, achieve the formal and technological breakthroughs that have made him one of the most influential architects of our time.
2008	Notations: The Closing Decade	November 21, 2008–November 2009	Modern and Contemporary Art	Arguably the last decade of the twentieth century started in 1989, with the fall of the Berlin Wall, and ended twelve years later, with the horrific attacks of September 2001. That extended decade witnessed some of the most profound and lasting transformation in society since the postwar period. This presentation of works from the Museum’s collection exemplifies the vast range of artistic practices during this time of profound transition, bringing together a diverse group of artists working in a variety of media.
2008	Willem Kalf and the Sumptuous Still Life in the John G. Johnson Collection	November 28, 2008–June 5, 2010	European Painting	John G. Johnson acquired many seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish still-life paintings, including three by Willem Kalf; an early kitchen scene and two of the later pronk, or sumptuous still lifes, for which Kalf is best known.
2008	The Art of Japanese Craft: 1875 to the Present	December 6, 2008–October 18, 2009	East Asian Art	This exhibition offers one of the first surveys of Japanese crafts in all their rich diversity of media and techniques through the entire 20th century, from Japan’s first forays on to the international stage of World’s Fairs to the heady internationalism of the 1920’s and 1930’s, to the dynamic creativity of the post-WW II period and to the present.
2008	Henri Matisse and Modern Art on the French Riviera	December 13, 2008–November 1, 2009	Modern and Contemporary Art	Including 42 works total, 35 paintings and 7 sculptures, from the Museum’s collection and local private collections, this year-long installation celebrates the French Riviera’s mythic allure for modern artists.
2008	Peaks of Faith: Buddhist Art of the Himalayas	December 20, 2008–Fall 2009	Indian and Himalayan Art	The masterpieces in this exhibition encompass nearly a millennium of art from across the Himalayan region (centered on Tibet and Nepal) and from neighboring areas under its cultural influence.
2008	The Privilege of Paint: Portraits from the Courts of India	December 20, 2008–June 28, 2009	Indian and Himalayan Art	During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the royal painting workshops of the Mughal emperors introduced to the Indian subcontinent a type of portraiture based on accurate renderings of physiognomy and individualized facial features. This new, more naturalistic manner of representing the human figure was at the same time highly idealized and formulaic.
2009	Andrew Wyeth: In Memoriam	January 29, 2009–May 3, 2009	Modern and Contemporary Art	A painter of profound imagination, skill, and staying power across seven turbulent decades, the late Andrew Wyeth was both admired and criticized for the tenacity of his realist approach and the unabashed emotion in his paintings. He produced some of the most famous and haunting images of the twentieth century. Celebrating Wyeth’s extraordinary life and work, this installation consists of two paintings and seven drawings.
2009	Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer and Titian	January 31, 2009–April 26, 2009	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Grand Scale assembles more than forty oversize and multi-part woodcuts and engravings from United States collections. Except for an exhibition of giant Renaissance woodcuts in the 1970s, this is the first exhibition in more than 100 years to explore the origins of this genre in printmaking with works by some of the most important artists and printmakers of their day.
2009	An Enduring Motif: The Pomegranate in Textiles	February 21, 2009–June 20, 2010	Costume and Textiles	Artists have been inspired by the inner and outer beauty of the pomegranate since biblical times. The objects on view in this exhibition represent a cross-section of textiles from the Museum’s collection that feature this richly symbolic fruit.
2009	Cézanne and Beyond	February 26, 2009–May 31, 2009	European Painting and Modern and Contemporary Art	This exhibition explores the vital role of Paul Cézanne in the history of modernism and as an extraordinarily rich resource for artists into the twenty-first century.
2009	Daidō Moriyama: Tokyo Photographs	February 28, 2009–August 23, 2009	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Daidō Moriyama is one of the most important and exciting Japanese photographers of our time, having made prolific, often experimental pictures of modern urban life since the 1960s. This exhibition showcases a group of approximately 45 photographs made in and around Tokyo in the 1980s, when Moriyama focused his mature aesthetic on the city with renewed intensity.
2009	Stories and Images in East Asian Art	March 12, 2009–February 24, 2010	East Asian Art	Drawn from the Museum's collection, this exhibition features Korean screen paintings with auspicious Chinese narratives juxtaposed with the Chinese ceramics of the Qing dynasty (1616–1912) that are decorated with the similar themes.

Year	Title	Dates	Department	Additional Info
2009	Arts of Bengal: Town, Temple, Mosque	March 13, 2010–September 19, 2010	Indian and Himalayan Art	The cities and towns of Bengal (modern Bangladesh and parts of eastern India) have long functioned as hubs of commerce, religious activity, and the arts where professional painters, potters, weavers, and sculptors catered to diverse audiences. Through works from the Museum’s collections, this exhibition explores the rich texture of the “sacred” and the “mundane” in Bengal’s cities from the eighteenth to mid-twentieth centuries.
2009	Live Cinema/Tim Hyde: Building in Reverse	March 20, 2009–June 21, 2009	Modern and Contemporary Art	Live Cinema/Tim Hyde focuses on the work of the Brooklyn-based artist whose video and photographic practice investigates the relationship between architecture, temporality and visuality. Taking the architectural urban context as a point of departure, Hyde strives to capture the inconspicuous changes in its details as well as the place it holds in the mental landscape of its inhabitants.
2009	Richard Schultz: Five Decades of Design	April 5, 2009–August 23, 2009		In this exhibition, several works created over half a century by legendary outdoor furniture designer Richard Schultz are being presented by Collab and the Philadelphia Museum of Art on the Perelman Building's Cafe Terrace.
2009	Something to Wear: Fashion in Print 1850–1925	April 11, 2009–August 15, 2009	Library	The fashion industry during 1850–1925 was a period of tremendous change and innovation. This exhibition, designed to complement Shopping in Paris: French Fashion 1850–1925, explores the world of fashion and consumer culture through printed publications. On display are books, periodicals, department store souvenirs, trade catalogs, and fashion plates from the Library’s collection of fashion-related material.
2009	Shopping in Paris: French Fashion 1850–1925	April 11, 2009–November 1, 2009	Costume and Textiles	The glamorous and cutting-edge fashions created in Paris have always inspired American dress. This exhibition explores the American experience abroad between 1850 and 1925. Such luxurious designs as the House of Worth and the classic elegance of Lanvin are being paired with American fashions based on these Parisian prototypes.
2009	A Director’s Vision: The Legacy of Anne d’Harnoncourt	April 25, 2009–July 19, 2009		Anne d’Harnoncourt (1943–2008), the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s late and beloved Director who served the Museum and its audiences for four historic and transforming decades, reveled in the art of all ages and cultures. This exhibition celebrates Anne, her passion for art, and her drive to share creativity’s treasures with all.
2009	Wrought and Crafted: Jewelry and Metalwork 1900–Present	May 9, 2009–February 7, 2010	American Art	Today, Philadelphia is home to many emerging and established metalsmiths who teach, create, and exhibit their work here and elsewhere. On display in this gallery are pieces by several significant Philadelphians—Olaf Skoogfors, Stanley Lechtzin, Jan Yager, Bruce Metcalf, and Sharon Church, to name just a few—as well as recognized artists from around the country.
2009	Visual Delight: Ornament and Pattern in Modern and Contemporary Design	May 16, 2009–September 20, 2009		This exhibition, drawn primarily from the Museum’s modern and contemporary design collection, features some thirty objects dating from the mid-1960s to the present.
2009	A Taste for Modern: The Jeanne Rymer Collection of Twentieth-Century Chairs	May 16, 2009–September 20, 2009	European Decorative Arts	This installation of twenty-three chairs is selected from an important group given to the Museum in 2007 by Jeanne Rymer, a retired professor and head of the Interior Design Program at the University of Delaware.
2009	Skyscrapers: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs of the Early Twentieth Century	June 6, 2009–November 12, 2009	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Icons of modernity and testaments to human achievement, skyscrapers rose to towering heights in major cities across the United States during the early decades of the twentieth century. More than fifty prints, drawings, and photographs chosen from the Museum’s collection demonstrate the many ways artists chose to portray the new giants in their landscape.
2009	Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens	June 7, 2009–November 22, 2009	Modern and Contemporary Art	*Location: Venice, Italy Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens is the official United States representation for the 53rd International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia. A three-part presentation in Venice, Italy, Topological Gardens exhibits works by Bruce Nauman in the U.S. Pavilion of the Biennale’s Giardini, as well as in spaces located on the premises of two of the most highly esteemed academic institutions in the city.
2009	Spectacle: Photographs from the Collection	June 18, 2009–September 7, 2009	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Comprising more than 40 photographs from the Museum’s collection, this exhibition explores the manner in which photographers from the nineteenth-century through the present day have documented spectacular scenes and events along with the curious spectators who observe them.
2009	May Your Glass Be Ever Full: Drinking in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe	July 5, 2009–Summer 2010	European Decorative Arts	This installation, drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection, brings together objects employed in the service and consumption of alcoholic beverages.
2009	Ragas and Rajas: Musical Imagery of Courtly India	July 11, 2009–February 28, 2010	Indian and Himalayan Art	Members of India’s elite have long been great patrons of both music and the visual arts. This exhibition explores some of the ways court artists have sought to create a bridge between these two rich artistic traditions, by translating the aural qualities of music into a visible form.
2009	The Two Qalams: Islamic Arts of Pen and Brush	July 11, 2009–September 19, 2010	Indian and Himalayan Art	The Two Qalams explores the relationship between calligraphers and artists through five exemplary works of calligraphy, drawing, and painting dating from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.
2009	Adventures in Modern Art: The Charles K. Williams II Collection	July 12, 2009–September 13, 2009	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Drawn from the collection of Charles K. Williams II, a distinguished archaeologist and Director Emeritus of the Corinth Excavations of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, this exhibition includes approximately 100 paintings, sculptures, watercolors, and drawings from the early decades of the 20th century.
2009	Marcel Duchamp: Sources for Research	August 15, 2009–November 7, 2009	Archives	This exhibition features several manuscript collections and institutional records that support research on Marcel Duchamp.
2009	Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés	August 15, 2009–November 29, 2009	Modern and Contemporary Art	Marcel Duchamp’s enigmatic assemblage Étant donnés: 1. La chute d’eau, 2. Le gaz d’éclairage (Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas) has been described by the artist Jasper Johns as “the strangest work of art in any museum.” Permanently installed at the Museum since 1969, this three-dimensional environmental tableau offers an unforgettable and untranslatable experience to those who peer through the two small holes in the solid wooden door.
2009	Jun Kaneko	September 5, 2009–April 18, 2010	American Art	Jun Kaneko, born in Nagoya, Japan in 1942, began his formal studies in art in the United States at the Chouinard Art Institute and continued at Berkeley and Claremont Graduate School. These four sculptures represent a larger body of work called the Mission Clay Project, which created a total of forty-one new sculptures. This project took three years to complete.
2009	Inspiring Fashion: Gifts from Designers Honoring Tom Marotta	September 12, 2009–September 6, 2010	Costume and Textiles	The diverse examples of contemporary special occasion and evening wear in this gallery, obtained through the auspices of Saks Fifth Avenue, are a welcome addition to the Museum’s outstanding collection of costume and textiles. These gifts showcase the individual designers’ creative flair and serve as a lasting tribute to the esteem and affection that Tom Marotta inspired.
2009	Isamu Noguchi at the Philadelphia Museum of Art	September 14, 2009–August 16, 2010	Modern and Contemporary Art	The inaugural installation in the Museum's new Sculpture Garden, Isamu Noguchi at the Philadelphia Museum of Art is a fascinating selection of sculptures by an artist who had longstanding ties with the Museum and our late Director Anne d’Harnoncourt, and is represented in the collection by the extraordinary cast-bronze biomorphic Avatar.
2009	Common Ground: Eight Philadelphia Photographers in the 1960s and 1970s	September 12, 2009–February 3, 2010	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Common Ground examines a critical period for the art of photography and for the Philadelphia art scene. In the 1960s, photographers including Emmet Gowin, Will Larson, and Ray K. Metzker, among the first generation of photographers trained in university art departments, all came to Philadelphia to teach in the city’s renowned art schools, bringing with them experimental approaches to the medium.
2009	Frederick Sommer Photographs	October 3, 2009–January 3, 2010	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The first exhibition of Sommer’s work in Philadelphia since 1968, Frederick Sommer Photographs presents some forty images spanning the artist’s career, along with a small number of drawings and collages. Included is a rare suite of macabre yet poignant photographs the artist made in 1939 using chicken parts collected from his local butcher.
2009	Arshile Gorky in Context	October 16, 2009–January 10, 2010	Modern and Contemporary Art	This exhibition draws from the Museum’s extensive collections of modern art to place Gorky among European artists who inspired him, American artists whom he influenced, and expatriate Russian artists with whom he exhibited and worked while living in New York.
2009	Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective	October 21, 2009–January 10, 2010	Modern and Contemporary Art	Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective celebrates the extraordinary life and work of Arshile Gorky (c.1902–1948), a seminal figure in the movement toward abstraction that transformed American art. This exhibition, which includes about 178 works of art, surveys Gorky’s entire career from the early 1920s until his death by suicide in 1948.
2009	A Purer Taste of Forms and Ornaments: Josiah Wedgwood and the Antique	October 24, 2009–March 14, 2010	European Decorative Arts	In 1759, the young Josiah Wedgwood (1730–1795), who would become one of England’s most famous potters, established his first factory at the Ivy House Works in Burslem, England. A Purer Taste of Forms and Ornaments: Josiah Wedgwood and the Antique celebrates the 250th anniversary of this vastly influential factory and its extraordinary founder.
2009	Notations/Bruce Nauman: Days and Giorni	November 21, 2009–April 4, 2010	Modern and Contemporary Art	Days and Giorni, Nauman’s compelling sound installations recorded in two languages, English and Italian, have traveled from the 53rd International Art Exhibition (La Biennale de Veneziato) to Philadelphia.
2009	Notations/Bruce Nauman: Giorni	November 21, 2009–May 31, 2010		Giorni, Bruce Nauman’s most recent sound installation, made its international debut in Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens, the official U.S. entry to the 53rd Venice Biennale organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in collaboration with the Università Iuav di Venezia and the Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia. The installation was produced in Venice in collaboration with students and staff members of these universities, some of whom participated in the recordings that would give voice to this work, a recitation of the days of the week in permutations enriched by the distinctive timbre of the Italian language. The resulting installation becomes an experiment in rhythm, cadence, and progression.
2009	Marcel Wanders: Daydreams	November 22, 2009–June 13, 2010	European Decorative Arts	The visionary and revolutionary Dutch designer Marcel Wanders (born 1963) is creating for the Museum a dreamlike, multimedia installation of objects personally selected by the artist to represent pivotal points in his extraordinary career. Using shifting video images, lighting, and sound to illuminate the development of his boldly inventive body of work, Wanders provides the visitor with a unique visual and sensory experience dramatizing the evolution of his designs over the past twenty years.
2009	Arts of Bengal: Wives, Mothers, Goddesses	November 25, 2009–September 19, 2010	Indian and Himalayan Art	Bengal (modern Bangladesh and eastern India) is a lush region of lotus pools, fish-filled rivers, and tiger-haunted forests punctuated by rice and banana fields, rural villages, and teeming cities. The domestic arts made by and for Bengali women during the 19th and 20th centuries include intricate embroidered quilts called kanthas, vibrant ritual paintings, and fish-shaped caskets and other implements created in resin-thread technique.
2009	Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz and the Stella Kramrisch Collections	December 12, 2009–July 25, 2010	Indian and Himalayan Art	Stitching kanthas was an art practiced by women across Bengal, a region today comprising the nation of Bangladesh and the state of West Bengal, India. Lovingly created from the remnants of worn garments, kanthas are embroidered with motifs and tales drawn from a rich local repertoire and used especially in the celebration of births, weddings, and other family occasions. This exhibition presents some forty superb examples created during the nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth century.
2009	Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms	December 11, 2009–March 21, 2010	Modern and Contemporary Art	Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms is the result of a close collaboration between the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Fabric Workshop and Museum. Conceived as an homage to the late Anne d’Harnoncourt, former director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the exhibition gracefully addresses time’s passing and the role that memory and memorials play in attending to the past.
2009	Hans Memling’s Virgin Nursing the Christ Child and the Early Netherlandish Tondo	December 19, 2009–March 14, 2010	European Painting	This exhibition brings together for the first time the two surviving tondos by the great Flemish master Hans Memling (c.1433–1494). These small round oil paintings of the Virgin Mary nursing the infant Jesus are peculiarly personal and affective devotional objects that could be held in the hand or hung on a wall.
2009	The Montiers of Philadelphia	December 30, 2009–Spring 2011	American Art	The earliest surviving portraits of an African American couple, Hiram and Elizabeth Brown Montier, provide a first-person perspective on their lives in nineteenth-century Philadelphia. On public view for the first time while on long-term loan to the Museum, the portraits invite special consideration as documents of marriage and family life within the city’s free African American community.
2010	Pleasures and Pastimes in Japanese Art	January 9, 2010–January 2011	East Asian Art	From classical Noh theater to poetry competitions to the joys of fishing, the pleasures and pastimes depicted in Japanese art are many and varied. This exhibition features masks and gorgeous costumes of the Noh theater as well as libretti and musical instruments that accompany the Noh performances.
2010	PHILAGRAFIKA 2010: The Graphic Unconscious―Works by Oscar Muñoz and Tabaimo	January 29, 2010–April 11, 2010	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The vital role of the printed image in contemporary art is the focus of the international festival, PHILAGRAFIKA 2010, to be held throughout the city of Philadelphia January 29 through April 11, 2010. The core exhibition of the festival, PHILAGRAFIKA 2010: The Graphic Unconscious, will be shown across five venues, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Museum will display installations by two artists, the Japanese artist Tabaimo (b. 1975) and the Colombian artist Óscar Muñoz (b. 1951), that explore the translation of printmaking into other mediums and expand the conceptual boundaries of printmaking.
2010	Picasso in Context	February 24, 2010–April 25, 2010	Modern and Contemporary Art	This exhibition, held in conjunction with Picasso and the Avant Garde in Paris, explores American Modernism through artists such as Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O’Keeffe. A selection of American photographer Paul Strand's portraits of Picasso and Georges Braque are also on view.
2010	Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris	February 24, 2010–May 2, 2010	Modern and Contemporary Art	Internationally recognized as one of the most innovative and influential artists of the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) was at his most ferociously inventive between 1905 and 1945. Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris surveys his work during these crucial decades, when he transformed the history of art through his innate virtuosity and protean creativity.
2010	The Platinum Process: Photographs from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century	February 27, 2010–May 23, 2010	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	An exhibition of some 75 works dating from the late nineteenth century to the present, The Platinum Process showcases a selection of outstanding platinum prints drawn from the Museum’s collection. Highlights include photographs by early masters of the platinum process including Frederick H. Evans and Paul Strand, as well as works by skilled contemporary practitioners such as Lois Conner.
2010	Informed by Fire: Highlights of American Ceramics	March 6, 2010–July 13, 2011	American Art	Clay used in artistic expression dates back to the dawn of civilization. In the past three centuries, artists from the United States have contributed to this rich ceramic tradition with vibrant, original and intelligent expressions in clay. Varied forms, surface decoration, use of glaze for color combined with science and skill shows the full breadth of possibilities as demonstrated by this selection of ceramics from the Museum's collection.
2010	Celebrating Picasso	March 9, 2010–June 14, 2010	Library	The Philadelphia Museum of Art was among the first U.S. museums to own a Picasso when it acquired the 1906 painting Woman with Loaves in 1931. This installation shows how, after bringing the work of Picasso into its collection, the Philadelphia Museum of Art introduced his art to its audience for both enjoyment and scholarship.
2010	Flora and Fauna in Korean Art	March 13, 2010–Spring 2011	East Asian Art	Drawn from the Museum's permanent collection, this exhibition features approximately 50 objects depicting symbolic interpretations of particular plants and animals—from mythical creatures such as dragons and phoenixes to the four friends; plums, orchids, chrysanthemums, and bamboo.
2010	Railways of Hope and Fear: Selections from the Fernberger Print Collection	March 17, 2010–June 30, 2010		The steam locomotive shaped the American landscape by expanding the nation’s borders, energizing trade, and promising to unite communities in the aftermath of the Civil War. A recent gift from Kathy and Ted Fernberger, this installation of colored lithographs published by Currier & Ives examines the nineteenth-century fascination with trains and travel while addressing the dangers of new technology in modern life.
2010	Interactions in Clay: Contemporary Explorations of the Collection	March 31, 2010–July 11, 2010	American Art	Interactions in Clay involves four artists who have been commissioned to create new artworks in response to the collection at The Philadelphia Museum of Art. The artists, Ann Agee, Walter McConnell, Paul Sacaridiz, and Betty Woodman, will interact with historical work and spaces in order to discover new meanings and formal strategies in different galleries throughout the Museum's main building
2010	Art in Revolutionary Philadelphia	April 17, 2010–April 3, 2011	American Art	As the political climate in Philadelphia grew increasingly charged throughout the 1770s, art became currency. This presentation allows Museum visitors to see the featured works of art through the lens of a truly seminal period in American history—to consider the unexpected roles art played in the lives of individuals and families during the American Revolution.
2010	Visions of Venice: Eighteenth-Century Prints from the Collection	April 24, 2010–July 18, 2010	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The exhibition surveys the broad range of Venetian print production, featuring over 70 works by artists such as Canaletto, Marco Ricci, Giovanni Battista and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, and Pietro Longhi, along with a small selection of drawings and paintings by notable Venetian masters.
2010	Notations/Forms of Contingency: New York and Turin, 1960s–1970s	April 24, 2010–September 26, 2010		In collaboration with the Sonnabend Collection, New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art presents Notations/Forms of Contingency: New York and Turin, 1960s–1970s, an installation charting the changing attitudes toward sculptural practice in a formative period that marked the shift from the severe geometry of Minimalism to the unbounded, eccentric, elemental, energetic, and expressive forms of Post-Minimalism and Arte Povera.
2010	Live Cinema/Histories in Motion: Jennifer Levonian, Martha Colburn, Joshua Mosley	April 30, 2010–July 25, 2010	Modern and Contemporary Art	Histories in Motion presents new animations by three young artists who infuse their work with personal reflections on contemporary life and its complex dynamics. Characterized by a critical engagement with the world at large, their films are representative of a generation for whom the moving image and its cinematic qualities have become the prevailing form of expression.
2010	Water Work	May 15, 2010–July 18, 2010	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition features images in which water is the principal theme, highlighted in a selection of modern and contemporary prints, drawings, and photographs from the permanent collection. Included are works on paper by Ed Ruscha, Roni Horn, Robert Moskowitz, Vija Celmins, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Ellsworth Kelly, and Georgia O’Keeffe.
2010	David Teniers’s Theatrum Pictorium and the John G. Johnson Collection	June 12, 2010–January 2011	European Painting	In 1660, the Antwerp artist and court painter David Teniers II (1610–1690) published the Theatrum Pictorium, the first illustrated printed catalogue of a major paintings collection. This opulent book contained etchings that reproduced 243 paintings in the collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, the governor of the Southern Netherlands. The selection of paintings highlighted the archduke’s sixteenth-century Venetian masterpieces, largely acquired from the estate of the Duke of Hamilton, who had perished in the English Civil Wars (1642–51).
2010	Revisiting the Centennial: Resources from the Library and Archives	June 14, 2010–December 2010	Library and Archives	The invaluable resources in this exhibition—including books, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and ephemera—document an extraordinary civic event as well as the broader aesthetic and manufacturing forces at work in the Victorian era, which drove considerable social and economic change both here and abroad.
2010	Late Renoir	June 17, 2010–September 6, 2010	European Painting	Late Renoir follows the renowned painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir through the final—and most fertile and innovative—decades of his career. At the height of his creative powers and looking toward posterity, Renoir created art that was timeless, enticing, and worthy of comparison to the greatest of the old masters, such as Raphael, Titian, and Rubens.
2010	Plain Beauty: Korean White Porcelain/Photographs by Bohnchang Koo	June 19, 2010–September 26, 2010	East Asian Art	Plain Beauty brings together exquisite porcelains made in Korea during the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910), Joseon-inspired ceramics by contemporary artists, and large-scale photographs by Bohnchang Koo (Korean, born 1953).
2010	To Love, Honor, and Obey? Stories of Italian Renaissance Marriage Chests	July 3, 2010–July 3, 2011	European Decorative Art	In Renaissance Italy, betrothal and marriage were celebrated with a variety of events as well as commemorative works of art. Often elaborate, these objects marked the joining of a couple while symbolizing wealth and demonstrating alliances between powerful families.
2010	Threaded Adornment: Four Centuries of English Embroidery	July 10, 2010–July 31, 2011	Costume and Textiles	This concise exhibition presents nine examples of English embroidery from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century, from opulent examples made for ecclesiastical and secular use, to embroideries used as subtle displays of wealth and status, to reflections of contemporary social and aesthetic developments.
2010	Hanging Around: Modern and Contemporary Lighting from the Permanent Collection	July 17, 2010–October 10, 2010	European Decorative Art	In the early twentieth century, with the introduction of electric light, designers began to focus on lighting fixtures, hanging lamps among them. Interest in lighting design experienced a particular surge in the decades after World War II, when many young artists, the American George Nelson among them, responded to a demand for fixtures that were both functional and modern in their aesthetic. Drawn from the Museum’s extensive collection of modern and contemporary design, this exhibition features some twenty hanging lamps.
2010	An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing The Gross Clinic Anew	July 23, 2010–January 9, 2011	American Art and Conservation	Acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2007 after a stirring public campaign to keep the painting in Philadelphia, Thomas Eakins’s masterpiece, Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic) of 1875, has been cleaned and restored for the first time in almost fifty years. The painting emerges from the conservation studio as the centerpiece of this exhibition, which throws new light on a work acclaimed as the greatest American painting of the nineteenth century.
2010	Porcelain for the Emperor: Chinese Ceramics of the Kangxi Reign (1662–1722)	August 7, 2010–September 5, 2011	East Asian Art	The Kangxi emperor, who ruled China from 1662 to 1722, was a connoisseur of the arts who took a particular interest in ceramics. In the 1680s, he ordered the reactivation of the imperial porcelain factory at Jingdezhen; by the end of his reign there were more than three thousand workshops producing wares for the imperial court as well as for China’s thriving domestic and export markets. Porcelain for the Emperor showcases the extraordinary technical and aesthetic achievements of the Kangxi-era potters.
2010	Picturing the West: Yokohama Prints 1859–1870s	August 28, 2010–November 14, 2010	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The landscapes and scenes of Japanese life and culture depicted in ukiyo-e color woodcuts made in Japan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are widely known and admired. Less familiar are the “Yokohama Prints” portraying Westerners who came to Japan after the island nation opened its borders to international trade in the late 1850s. Picturing the West showcases approximately ninety of the latter woodcuts, selected from the Museum’s extensive collection of nineteenth-century Japanese prints, that reflect the Japanese fascination with their newly arrived Western visitors and the transformation of Yokohama as a trade port.
2010	The Women’s Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Photography Portfolio 2010	September 4, 2010–September 19, 2010	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The Women’s Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art organized its 2010 Photography Portfolio Competition in recognition of photography’s broad significance as a contemporary art form, and to increase awareness of the Museum’s photography collection. The competition was designed to foster the discovery of new talent internationally.
2010	Desert Jewels: North African Jewelry and Photography from the Xavier Guerrand-Hermes Collection	September 4, 2010–December 5, 2010	Costume and Textiles	An exhibition of spectacular jewelry and historic photographs from Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Egypt, and Tunisia, Desert Jewels presents never-before-exhibited pieces of stunning North African jewelry and late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photographs by some of the period’s most prominent photographers.
2010	Eakins on Paper: Drawings and Watercolors from the Collection	September 4, 2010–December 19, 2010	American Art	In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Philadelphia Sketch Club, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is placing on display ten rarely seen drawings and watercolors that survey the early work of Thomas Eakins (1844–1916), celebrated as one of the greatest draftsmen in the history of American art.
2010	Live Cinema/In the Round: Contemporary Art from the East Mediterranean	September 17, 2010–February 13, 2011	Modern and Contemporary Art	Live Cinema/In the Round features the works of Ziad Antar, Inci Eviner, Gülsün Karamustafa, Hassan Khan, Maha Maamoun, and Christodoulos Panayiotou, six artists from the Eastern Mediterranean who, in varying ways, explore how the moving image informs representations of reality. Responding to the 'live' reference used in the program title Live Cinema, video and sculptural works create a dialogue around the shift from the live performance of theatre to the suspension of reality of cinema.
2010	Tailoring Philadelphia: Tradition and Innovation in Menswear	October 2, 2010–October 16, 2011	Costume and Textiles	Drawn from the Museum’s rich collection of menswear, this exhibition focuses on one of Philadelphia’s most important industries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: tailoring. Francis Toscani (1915–1973), one of the city’s most successful tailors, is featured, with over fifteen of the designer’s innovative garments on view.
2010	A Glimpse of Paradise: Gold in Islamic Art	October 9, 2010–April 2011	Indian and Himalayan Art	A Glimpse of Paradise explores the unique status of gold in Islam through a small group of objects drawn from the Museum’s collection. The diverse selection includes a fourteenthcentury Qur’an folio from Central Asia or Turkey with gold decoration added in India and a resplendent eagle-shaped pendant made in Iran during the nineteenth century. As these works show, gold was put to multiple uses in the arts of Islam, serving both as a sign of the divine and as an ornament for earthly pleasure.
2010	Monumental “Miniatures”: Large-scale Paintings from India	October 9, 2010–April 2011	Indian and Himalayan Art	Drawing from the Museum’s collection, Monumental "Miniatures" features a selection of paintings dating from the fifteenth through twentieth centuries. With highlights including an elaborate storytelling scroll from the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and a sumptuous depiction of Krishna and his beloved, Radha, from Kishangarh in the western state of Rajasthan, this exhibition explores the great regional and thematic diversity of India’s tradition of largescale painting.
2010	Mark Cohen: Strange Evidence	October 23, 2010–March 13, 2011	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition surveys a select group of some fifty of Mark Cohen’s black-and-white and color photographs made over the past forty years. Together, these pictures chart the transformations that have happened in cities such as Scranton and Wilkes-Barre in those decades, demonstrating that even the most subjective photographs can reveal historical truths.
2010	Michelangelo Pistoletto: From One to Many, 1956–1974	November 2, 2010–January 17, 2011	Modern and Contemporary Art	Michelangelo Pistoletto (Italian, born 1933) is widely recognized in Europe as one of its most influential contemporary artists and is increasingly gaining recognition in the United States. As the artist’s first focused survey in the U.S. in more than two decades, Michelangelo Pistoletto: From One to Many, 1956–1974 places Pistoletto’s work in the context of the postwar sociocultural transformations of Italy, Western Europe, and North America while also exploring its relationship to Pop, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art.
2010	Michelangelo Pistoletto: Cittadellarte	November 2, 2010–January 17, 2011	Modern and Contemporary Art	This exhibition presents Michelangelo Pistoletto’s current work from his interdisciplinary laboratory, Cittadellarte—the name of which implies both a fortified enclave and a city of art. Examples of Pistoletto’s tables in the shapes of seas from across the globe will be on view. These “mediterranean” tables metaphorically represent the spaces that exist in the “middle of land,” places whose in-between character provides a conceptual platform for conversation and exchange across cultures.
2010	Alessi: Ethical and Radical	November 21, 2010–April 10, 2011	European Decorative Arts	Alessi is widely regarded as the world’s most innovative and influential maker of kitchen utensils, or in the company’s parlance, “house-hold objects.” Alessi: Ethical and Radical presents the company’s history in objects while exploring ecological concerns, new technologies, and other themes.
2010	Virtues and Vices: Moralizing Prints in the Low Countries, 1550–1600	December 11, 2010–February 27, 2011	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition brings together a group of lively moralizing prints created between 1550 and 1600 in Antwerp and Haarlem, the two major print-publishing centers in the Low Countries. Both sobering and satirical, prints of this type were popular best-sellers, offering both moral instruction and visual delight to a newly expanded audience of educated Dutch and Flemish consumers.
2010	Alex Katz	December 16, 2010– December 11, 2011	Contemporary Art
2010	A Royal Passion: Meissen and Asian Porcelain from Augustus the Strong’s Japanese Palace	December 18, 2010–April 3, 2011	European Decorative Arts	A Royal Passion, which celebrates the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Meissen factory, features nineteen pieces of porcelain from the Japanese Palace collection and highlights a pair of goats from the Museum’s permanent collection that was originally intended for Augustus’s porcelain menagerie.
2011	The Peacock Male: Exuberance and Extremes in Masculine Dress	January 22, 2011–September 18, 2011	Costume and Textiles	Men’s apparel is often thought of as staid and restrained, especially when compared to feminine fashions. Until the late eighteenth century, however, elite men flaunted their social position with rich fabrics and ornamentation. After men generally adopted somber suits, colorful accessories could add spice, and more ostentatious masculine flash and flair was sometimes permissible. The Peacock Male, drawn from the Museum’s collection of Western fashion, examines three hundred years of men’s sartorial display.
2011	Late Gothic and Renaissance Cologne: Paintings from the John G. Johnson Collection	February 12, 2011–July 21, 2011	European Painting	The Philadelphia Museum of Art boasts the largest group of old master paintings from Cologne in the United States. This is thanks to John G. Johnson (1841-1917), to whom all of the paintings in the exhibition once belonged.
2011	George Inness in Italy	February 19, 2011–May 15, 2011	American Art	A canonical figure in American painting, George Inness (1825–1894) is widely admired as the pioneer of the evocative aesthetic known as Tonalism, which is distinguished by soft focus and diaphanous layers of paint. This is the first exhibition to examine the artist’s two Italian sojourns (1851–52 and 1870–74) and their formative impact on his work. Italy—its art and its landscape—offered Inness a font of inspiration as he developed his own unique artistic vision.
2011	Notations/Everyday Disturbances	February 25, 2011–July 7, 2012	Modern and Contemporary Art	From the banal to the bizarre, the real to the surreal, and the readily recognizable to the seductively ambiguous, the works in Notations/Everyday Disturbances survey the tensions, or disturbances, that arise out of a collective and subversive reimagining of the world as we know it.
2011	Paris Through the Window: Marc Chagall and His Circle	March 1, 2011–July 10, 2011	Modern and Contemporary Art	As a symbol of culture, freedom, and modernity, the city of Paris held a magnetic attraction for artists from Eastern Europe during the early decades of the twentieth century. The exhibition will focus in particular on the paintings that Marc Chagall made between 1910 and 1920, including the artist’s early masterpiece Half-Past Three (The Poet), of 1911, which has long been considered one of the great treasures of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
2011	Francesco Vezzoli/An Embroidered Trilogy	March 10, 2011–June 5, 2011	Modern and Contemporary Art
2011	Roberto Capucci: Art into Fashion	March 16, 2011–June 5, 2011	Costume and Textiles	Italian fashion designer and artist Roberto Capucci (born 1930) is revered by contemporary designers for his innovative silhouettes and masterful use of form, color, and materials. This exhibition—featuring over eighty works, as well as original drawings and sketches—will be the first survey of his work in the United States.
2011	Kobe: Japan's Window on the World	March 26, 2011–July 31, 2011	East Asian Art	The year 2011 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Friendship City relationship between Philadelphia and the Japanese city of Kobe. This exhibition celebrates this important event by exploring Kobe’s history as a seaport as well as its role in nurturing cross-cultural influences in Japanese art.
2011	Health for Sale: Posters from the William H. Helfand Collection	April 1, 2011–July 31, 2011	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	In the mid 1950s, William H. Helfand began to collect prints with medical subjects, gradually moving his focus from fine to popular art. Over four decades, he has donated more than one thousand posters, prints, and ephemera to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This exhibition presents some fifty of the nearly two hundred posters in this collection.
2011	Unsettled: Photography and Politics in Contemporary Art	April 9, 2011–September 19, 2011	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Unsettled: Photography and Politics in Contemporary Art presents work by nine artists who used photography to address some of the most controversial political and social issues of the late 1970s through the early 1990s, including feminism, racism, the AIDS crisis, and gay activism.
2011	Collab: Four Decades of Giving Modern and Contemporary Design	May 21, 2011–October 21, 2012	European Decorative Arts	This exhibition highlights Collab’s gifts from the last four decades, celebrating the organization’s contributions to the Museum as well as presenting a chronological overview of modern and contemporary design in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
2011	Romancing the West: Alfred Jacob Miller in the Bank of America Collection	June 4, 2011–September 18, 2011	American Art	Baltimore native Alfred Jacob Miller (1810–1874), one of the first American artists to paint the Far West, is best remembered for his vivid chronicles of the Western fur trade and his romanticized depictions of mountain men, American Indian subjects, exotic wildlife, and the region’s stunning topography.
2011	Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus	August 3, 2011–October 30, 2011	European Painting	This exhibition reunites, for the first time since 1656, seven paintings of Jesus by Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn. Abandoning traditional sources, Rembrandt created these exceedingly rare portraits of Christ with the use of a human model—a step which was totally unprecedented at the time. In viewing them today, visitors are presented with a number of religious, historic, and artistic questions to ponder.
2011	Here and Now: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs by Ten Philadelphia Artists	September 10, 2011–December 4, 2011	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The works featured in this exhibition are a lively, arresting, and timely celebration of ten Philadelphia artists, ranging in age from 25 to 50, who are currently making art on paper.
2011	Zaha Hadid: Form in Motion	September 20, 2011–March 25, 2012	European Decorative Arts	Iraqi-born British architect Zaha Hadid, who in 2004 became the first female recipient of the renowned Pritzker Architecture Prize, has thoroughly advanced the vocabulary of contemporary architecture and design. For this exhibition, Hadid has created a sculptural environment for a selection of her recent furniture, decorative art, jewelry, and footwear innovations.
2011	Live Cinema/Peripheral Stages: Mohamed Bourouissa and Tobias Zielony	October 15, 2011–January 16, 2012	Modern and Contemporary Art	In Live Cinema/Peripheral Stages, the latest Live Cinema exhibition, the condition of social marginality and urban decay is explored through the video and photography work of two contemporary artists: Mohamed Bourouissa and Tobias Zielony.
2011	Tristin Lowe: Under the Influence	October 22, 2011–January 29, 2012	Costume and Textiles	Provocative, mysterious, and altogether otherworldly, Under the Influence features two interconnected works by Philadelphia artist Tristin Lowe—Lunacy, a giant rendering of the moon created in felt, and Visither I, a neon light sculpture. Both objects were commissioned by the Rhode Island School of Design’s Museum of Art in 2010, where they were first shown. This exhibition marks their Philadelphia debut
2011	Dutch Treat: A Glimpse of Holland’s Golden Age	November 22, 2011–January 1, 2012	European Painting	Continuing the Museum’s season of exhibitions devoted to the art and culture of the Netherlands, Dutch Treat offers visitors the rare opportunity to examine the work of one of the most accomplished painters of the Dutch Golden Age, Gerrit Dou (1613–1675), in depth.
2012	Zoe Strauss: Ten Years	January 14, 2012–April 22, 2012	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Zoe Strauss: Ten Years is a mid-career retrospective of the acclaimed photographer’s work and the first critical assessment of her ten-year project to exhibit her photographs annually in a space beneath a section of Interstate-95 in South Philadelphia.
2012	Van Gogh Up Close	February 1, 2012–May 6, 2012	European Painting	Vincent van Gogh was an artist of exceptional intensity, not only in his use of color and exuberant application of paint, but also in his personal life. Drawn powerfully to nature, his works—particularly those created in the years just before he took his own life—engage the viewer with the strength of his emotions. This exhibition focuses on these tumultuous years, a period of feverish artistic experimentation that began when van Gogh left Antwerp for Paris in 1886 and continued until his death in Auvers in 1890.
2012	35mm: Photographs from the Collection	February 11, 2012–June 3, 2012	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	From the first roll-film Leica in the 1920s to the familiar disposable cardboard Kodak, the handheld 35mm camera became a ubiquitous and indispensable photographic tool in the twentieth century.
2012	Secret Garden	March 3, 2012–August 26, 2012	Costume and Textiles	Three groundbreaking single sculptures, three leading contemporary artists: Secret Garden unites works in fiber by Ted Hallman, Sheila Hicks, and Jim Hodges.
2012	Cy Twombly: Sculptures	April 14, 2012–May 27, 2013	Modern and Contemporary Art	Taking cues from the Dada movement and from the work of Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, Cy Twombly (American, 1928–2011) created poetic objects whose serene white surfaces and allusive forms seem to recall remote worlds of myth and the ancient past. After reaching an indisputable maturity in his early sculpture, created from 1946 to 1959, Twombly returned to working in three dimensions in the mid-1970s and continued to cast new works up until his passing in 2011.
2012	Craft Spoken Here	May 5, 2012–August 12, 2012	American Art	Crafts were prominent among the first works of art to enter the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art when it was founded in 1876, and the Museum has continued to collect and exhibit crafts.
2012	The Art of German Stoneware	May 5, 2012–August 5, 2012	European Decorative Arts	From the fourteenth through eighteenth centuries, stoneware ceramics from Germanspeaking centers in modern-day Germany and the Low Countries were valued and widely traded throughout northern Europe. In the 1600s—the heyday of stoneware production—they found an enthusiastic market in colonial North America.
2012	Rockwell Kent—Voyager: An Artist’s Journey in Prints, Drawings, and Illustrated Books	May 19, 2012–July 29, 2012	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Famous in his own time as a painter, author, arctic adventurer, and political activist, Rockwell Kent (1882–1971) left his most enduring legacy as a printmaker and illustrator of books. His bold and enigmatic images of mysterious, statuesque figures in spiritual communion with the natural world proved equally effective in corporate advertising campaigns and book projects alike.
2012	Ralph Eugene Meatyard: Dolls and Masks	May 19, 2012–August 5, 2012	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Ralph Eugene Meatyard (American 1925–1972) is not a very familiar name in 20th-century photography, yet his impact on contemporary art, belatedly recognized, is significant. An optician in Lexington, Kentucky, Meatyard sustained a life-long interest in visual perception. Well read and deeply connected to a circle of poets and philosophers, he made photographs rich in literary allusion.
2012	Sol LeWitt: Lines in Four Directions in Flowers	May 24, 2012–April 5, 2015	Modern and Contemporary Art	In 1981, leading conceptual artist Sol LeWitt (American, 1928–2007) was invited by the Fairmount Park Art Association to propose a public artwork for a site in Fairmount Park. Installed thirty years after its conception, Lines in Four Directions in Flowers is a work of monumental scale, made up of more than 7,000 plantings arranged in strategically configured rows.
2012	Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia	June 20, 2012–September 3, 2012	European Painting	The theme of an earthly paradise, or Arcadia, has been popular in theater, poetry, music, and art since antiquity. This exhibition explores the theme in three such paintings of the time: Paul Gauguin’s Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (1898), Paul Cézanne’s The Large Bathers (1906), and Henri Matisse’s Bathers by a River (1909–17).
2012	Prom: Photographs by Mary Ellen Mark	July 1, 2012–October 28, 2012	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Between 2006 and 2009, American photographer Mary Ellen Mark visited thirteen high school proms to create portraits of attendees with a 20-by-24-inch Polaroid Land Camera. Only five such cameras exist, and they make extraordinary and unique large-format prints
2012	Notations: Sean Scully	July 28, 2012–July 14, 2013	Modern and Contemporary Art	Sean Scully’s paintings speak eloquently to the history of abstraction, engaging in a passionate conversation with the legacies of Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism while offering new models for the continuing role of nonfigurative art.
2012	Full Spectrum: Prints from the Brandywine Workshop	September 7, 2012–November 25, 2012	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Cultural identity, political and social issues, portraiture, and landscape, as well as patterning and pure abstraction, are some of the many concerns explored by the artists in this exhibition. The spectrum of artistic voices and approaches to image-making represented in the exhibition reflects the increasingly pluralistic character of contemporary art.
2012	Shipwreck! Winslow Homer and The Life Line	September 22, 2012–January 1, 2013	American Art	Winslow Homer’s masterpiece The Life Line(1884) is the center of an exhibition about the making and meaning of an iconic American image of rescue. One of the great popular and critical successes of the artist’s career, the painting engages age-old themes of peril at sea and the power of nature, while celebrating modern heroism and the thrill of unexpected intimacy between strangers thrown together by disaster.
2012	Ronaldus Shamask: Form, Fashion, Reflection	October 6, 2012–March 10, 2013	Costume and Textiles	In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Ronaldus Shamask (American, born Netherlands 1945) burst onto the runway with thoughtfully spare, minimalist works during a time of buoyant excess. Disregarding trends, Shamask drew on his background in illustration, architecture, theater, and dance as well as collaborations with choreographers and artists to create a timeless body of work that paved the way for the minimalist fashions of today.
2012	Learning from Frank Furness: Louis Sullivan in 1873	October 6, 2012–December 30, 2012	American Art	Frank Furness (American, 1839–1912) was the leading architect in Philadelphia during the second half of the nineteenth century. Working in a city known as the “workshop of the world,” Furness turned away from contemporary European historical forms to design buildings out of the materials and formal vocabulary of the Industrial Revolution.
2012	Dancing around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp	October 30, 2012–January 21, 2013	Modern and Contemporary Art	Dancing around the Bride is the first exhibition to explore the interwoven lives, works, and experimental spirit of Marcel Duchamp (American, born France, 1887–1968) and four of the most important American postwar artists: composer John Cage (1912–1992), choreographer Merce Cunningham (1919–2009), and visual artists Jasper Johns (born 1930) and Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008).
2012	Live Cinema/Manon de Boer: Resonating Surfaces–A Trilogy	November 17, 2012–May 5, 2013	Modern and Contemporary Art	Resonating Surfaces–A Trilogy presents for the first time in a museum exhibition a series of three cinematic portraits defined by narratives of time and memory, and structured around the relation between images and sounds.
2012	All Dressed Up: Fashions for Children and Their Families	December 2, 2012–December 18, 2013	Costume and Textiles	All Dressed Up: Fashions for Children and Their Families focuses on clothing from the late eighteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, comparing and contrasting adults' apparel with children’s smaller styles.
2012	Double Portrait: Paula Scher and Seymour Chwast, Graphic Designers	December 2, 2012–April 14, 2013	European Decorative Arts	With a shared sensibility and approach to design, graphic designer Paula Scher and illustrator Seymour Chwast have transformed their fields of practice. Celebrating the achievements of this remarkably creative couple, whose work is being shown together for the first time, this exhibition includes images in a wide range of formats, selected and installed by Chwast (American, born 1931) and Scher (American, born 1948).
2012	Treasures of the Alfred Stieglitz Center: Photographs from the Permanent Collection	December 22, 2012–April 7, 2013	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition showcases diverse highlights from the Museum’s photography collection, tracing the medium’s history as a visual art form

Year	Title	Dates	Department	Additional Info
2013	Journeys to New Worlds: Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Art from the Roberta and Richard Huber Collection	February 16, 2013–May 19, 2013	European Painting	With a rare group of paintings, decorative arts, and sculptures from the collection of Roberta and Richard Huber, Journeys to New Worlds explores the artistic exchanges between Spain and Portugal and their colonies in the Americas and Asia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
2013	"Great and Mighty Things": Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection	March 3, 2013–June 9, 2013	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The power of self-taught artistic talent, the drive of the human spirit to create, and the wonders of highly original inner worlds revealed. These are just a few of the reasons why the Philadelphia Museum of Art is proud to debut the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection, a promised gift to the Museum of more than two hundred works by self-taught artists.
2013	The Art of Golf	March 16, 2013–July 7, 2013	European Painting	The Golfers (1847), an iconic work by Scottish painter Charles Lees (1800–1880), is the centerpiece of The Art of Golf, an exhibition celebrating what has been called “a game of considerable passion” on the occasion of the U.S. Open Championships, which will be played in June at the Merion Golf Club, in Ardmore, Pennsylvania.
2013	Photogravure: Master Prints from the Collection	May 11, 2013–August 11, 2013	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Photogravure, a printmaking process that combines elements of aquatint etching and photography, was a prized medium among artist-photographers of the late nineteenth century, who labored over their hand-pulled prints.
2013	Homage to Ellsworth Kelly	April 27, 2013–August 25, 2013	Modern and Contemporary Art	Presented on the occasion of the artist’s ninetieth birthday, this installation brings together a selection of four works that span Ellsworth Kelly’s prolific oeuvre. One of the most prominent artists of the postwar period, Kelly is known for his explorations of contrasting formal relationships: flat color versus depth, shape, and scale.
2013	CandyCoated Wonderland	May 4, 2013–November 17, 2013	Costume and Textiles	Multimedia artist Candy Coated blends nineteenth- and twentieth-century children's fancy dress costumes from the Museum's collection into a rich wonderland of colorful vinyl decals, ceramic wall gems, hand-screened fabrics, and wallpapers in the Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building's Joan Spain Gallery.
2013	Starting from Scratch: The Art of Etching from Dürer to Dine	May 11, 2013–August 11, 2013	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Starting from Scratch showcases more than seventy of the Museum’s finest etchings, demonstrating the ways in which some of history’s most famous artists have embraced the medium to create original and dynamic works of art.
2013	Design for the Modern Child	May 25, 2013–October 14, 2013	European Decorative Arts	This exhibition will feature some of the latest furniture, toys, tableware, wallpaper, and textiles designed internationally in Australia, Asia, Europe, Great Britain, and the United States, along with classics from the Museum’s design collection.
2013	Family Portrait	June 8, 2013–November 10, 2013	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Family Portrait examines the many ways photographers picture family, from amateurs who document their own households, to progressive reformers who make views of domestic life to encourage social change, to artists who explore the deeply personal and often private nature of familial relationships
2013	Witness: The Art of Jerry Pinkney	June 28, 2013–September 22, 2013	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition of drawings and watercolors by Jerry Pinkney (American, born 1939) presents an overview of the artist’s long and varied career as a designer and illustrator.
2013	First Look: Collecting for Philadelphia	July 13, 2013–September 8, 2013	European Painting	The holdings of the Philadelphia Museum of Art are constantly changing, and every year, hundreds, if not thousands, of new works are added to the permanent collection. These acquisitions would not be possible without the remarkable generosity of donors, whose dedication to philanthropy has sustained the Museum since its origins.
2013	Barbara Chase-Riboud: The Malcolm X Steles	September 14, 2013–January 20, 2014	Modern and Contemporary Art	Bringing together more than forty works from the United States and Europe, this exhibition examines Barbara Chase-Riboud's artistic career, focusing primarily on her important Malcolm X sculptures. Five works from that series—among them the Museum’s Malcolm X #3 of 1970— and five closely related sculptures are included.
2013	The Enchanted World of German Romantic Prints	September 21, 2013–December 29, 2013	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Prints created by Austrian, German, and Swiss artists included in this exhibition reflect the dramatic shifts in taste in the arts during a time of significant cultural and political transformation throughout the German-speaking regions of Central Europe during the Romantic period.
2013	Cy Twombly: Sculptures	September 24, 2013–March 27, 2016	Contemporary Art	Taking cues from the Dada movement and from the work of Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, Cy Twombly (American, 1928–2011) created poetic objects whose serene white surfaces and allusive forms seem to recall remote worlds of myth and the ancient past. After reaching an indisputable maturity in his early sculpture, created from 1946 to 1959, Twombly returned to working in three dimensions in the mid-1970s and continued to cast new works up until his passing in 2011.
2013	Léger: Modern Art and the Metropolis	October 14, 2013–January 5, 2014	Modern and Contemporary Art	This interdisciplinary exhibition takes as its inspiration and point of departure Fernand Léger’s 1919 painting The City, a cornerstone of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's collection and one of the most important works in the history of modern art.
2013	Vermeer’s Young Woman Seated at a Virginal	October 26, 2013–September 21, 2014	European Painting	Vermeer painted less than forty pictures during his career and this one, Young Woman Seated at a Virginal, is believed to be one of his last. It is also the only remaining canvas by this great Dutch master to be in private hands. The Museum is immensely grateful to the Leiden Collection for the exceedingly rare opportunity to display this work; indeed, it has been almost ten years since a painting by Vermeer has been on view in Philadelphia.
2013	The Surrealists: Works from the Collection	November 3, 2013–March 2, 2014	Modern and Contemporary Art	This exhibition provides an account of Surrealism as told through the Museum’s unique collection of great masterpieces and lesser-known works of the movement, as well as its deep holdings of period journals, catalogues, and archival material. Bringing together a diverse and exceptional group of more than seventy paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, prints, and books, the exhibition will highlight the inspired minds and imaginations of the most celebrated Surrealists.
2013	Marc Newson: At Home	November 23, 2013–April 20, 2014	European Decorative Arts	The most influential industrial designer of his generation, Marc Newson (Australian, born 1963) has designed everything from a dish rack to a personal jet, some pieces mass-produced, others one-offs, for both companies and art galleries. As creative director of Qantas Airways, Newson redesigned the interiors and fittings of the airline's Airbus fleet, including cabin lighting and seats as well as its in-flight tableware.
2013	Live Cinema/Fiona Tan: Inventory	December 14, 2013–May 11, 2014	Modern and Contemporary Art	Fiona Tan: Inventory is a multiprojection installation inviting viewers to consider museum collections as well as the human compulsion to capture the transience of time and lived experience. Filmed at the Sir John Soane Museum in London over a period of four days in September 2012, Inventorypresents intimate details of the British architect's (1753–1837) personal antiquities collection housed in one of the most unique private residences to become a public museum.
2014	Michael Snow: Photo-Centric	February 1, 2014–April 27, 2014	Contemporary Art	Conceived in close collaboration with Michael Snow—one of the most important experimental filmmakers of his generation—this exhibition is a focused survey of the Canadian artist's photography-based work, which has not been the subject of a solo museum exhibition in the United States since the 1970s. Throughout a career that has also included painting, sculpture, installations, and music, Snow (born 1928) has employed photography in unique and innovative ways. This exhibition presents the best examples of his use of the medium from 1962 to 2003.
2014	Treasures from Korea: Arts and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392–1910	March 2, 2014–May 26, 2014	East Asian Art	Treasures from Korea celebrates the artistic achievements of the Joseon dynasty, a line of monarchs that ruled for more than five hundred years and left a substantial legacy for modern Korea. A variety of objects—including painted screens, scrolls, calligraphy, furnishings, costumes, accessories, and ritual wares—explore the roles of king and court, the distinct spheres of men and women in society, and religious beliefs. This is the first full-scale American exhibition to be devoted to art of the Joseon dynasty.
2014	Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love	April 27, 2014–December 7, 2014	Costume and Textiles	This retrospective presents the joyful and colorful fashions of African American designer Patrick Kelly, who took Paris by storm in the 1980s. Inspired by his Mississippi roots, the nightclubs of New York and Paris, Josephine Baker, and celebrated couturiers Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli, Kelly infused his bold designs with a sly sense of humor, subverting not only fashion but also racial stereotypes.
2014	Gerlan Jeans Loves Patrick Kelly	April 27, 2014–December 7, 2014	Costume and Textiles	The legacy of the late African American fashion designer Patrick Kelly (c. 1954–1990) endures in the whimsical street-wear brand Gerlan Jeans. Launched in 2009 by New York–based designer and graphic artist Gerlan Marcel (born 1976), Gerlan Jeans reinterprets Kelly’s signature bows, buttons, and other bold embellishments to create clothes for men and women “who have a sense of fearlessness in the way they dress.”
2014	Picasso Prints: Myths, Minotaurs, and Muses	May 24, 2014–August 3, 2014	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition focuses on Pablo Picasso’s response to the world of classical antiquity in nearly fifty prints from four critical decades of his career. His wide-ranging interests in ancient art, mythology, and literature were a continual source of inspiration for the compulsively creative artist, who infused them with his personal mythology.
2014	Artificial Light: Flash Photography in the Twentieth Century	May 24, 2014–August 3, 2014	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Explore diverse examples of flash photography, which gained widespread use in the 1920s with the invention of the mass-produced flashbulb.
2014	Making a Classic Modern: Frank Gehry’s Master Plan for the Philadelphia Museum of Art	July 1, 2014–September 1, 2014	Executive Office	Presented for the first time in this exhibition is the comprehensive design for the renewal and expansion of the Philadelphia Museum of Art by internationally celebrated architect Frank Gehry. Best known for the expressive sculptural forms of buildings such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, Gehry’s approach to this project is dramatically different and virtually unique.
2014	The Main Dish	July 1, 2014–September 28, 2014	European Decorative Arts	One of the most common assumptions about the kitchen is that it is a woman’s space. With this in mind, The Main Dish looks at how modern and contemporary kitchenware reflects attributes of the model homemaker.
2014	In Dialogue: Wolfgang Tillmans	July 1, 2014–October 26, 2014	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	In 2013 the Museum acquired Nachtstilleben (Night Still Life) by Wolfgang Tillmans, one of the most influential photographers working today. This exhibition places works by artists including Andy Warhol, Thomas Demand, and Gerhard Richter in dialogue with Night Still Life and seven additional photographs by Tillmans.
2014	Full Circle: Works on Paper by Richard Pousette-Dart	September 13, 2014–November 30, 2014	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Full Circle surveys the long and extremely prolific career of one of the twentieth century’s most creative draftsmen, Richard Pousette-Dart (American, 1916–1992). Focused on his works on paper, the exhibition explores his remarkably varied use of materials and techniques, which often involved layering and scraping, scribbling and dripping, dotting and blotting. Over the course of nearly seventy years, his imagery evolved through various approaches in an attempt “to express the spiritual nature of the universe.”
2014	Paul Strand: Master of Modern Photography	October 21, 2014–January 4, 2015	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This major retrospective presents the work of a critical figure in the history of modern art, American photographer and filmmaker Paul Strand (1890–1976), whose archive of nearly 4,000 prints stands as a cornerstone of the Museum’s collection. It surveys Strand’s entire life’s work, including his breakthrough trials in abstraction and street portraits, close-ups of natural and machine forms, and extended explorations of the American Southwest, Mexico, New England, France, Italy, Scotland, Egypt, Morocco, Ghana, and Romania.
2014	Vitra—Design, Architecture, Communication: A European Project with American Roots	November 22, 2014–April 26, 2015	European Decorative Arts	The family-owned Swiss company Vitra is one of the most innovative design firms in the world. Renowned for its functional yet inspiring interior designs, furniture, and accessories, it is internationally recognized for its creative partnerships with design visionaries such as Philippe Starck, Ron Arad, and Verner Panton. Its remarkable ensemble of contemporary architecture and strong commitment to education set Vitra apart from other design companies. This exhibition tells Vitra’s story through an immersive presentation of furniture and design objects, models and material studies, drawings, aerial photographs of its campus, and videos.
2014	Allora & Calzadilla: Intervals	December 12, 2014–April 5, 2015	Contemporary Art	This exhibition of new and recent projects by Puerto Rico–based artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla explores music’s capacity to evoke an ancestral time and interrogate what makes us human. Through films, sound, live performances, and sculpture, the artists take on various notions of the interval in order to discover possible ways to reconsider the distance between our present and our past. Allora & Calzadilla: Intervals, the artists’ largest solo exhibition in the United States to date, unfolds over two sites: the Perelman Building at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Fabric Workshop and Museum.
2015	Represent: 200 Years of African American Art	January 10, 2015–April 5, 2015	American Art	This exhibition highlights selections from the Museum’s exceptional holdings of African American art and celebrates the publication of a catalogue examining the breadth of these noteworthy collections. With work by renowned artists such as Henry Ossawa Tanner, Horace Pippin, Jacob Lawrence, Martin Puryear, and Carrie Mae Weems, the exhibition showcases a range of subjects, styles, mediums, and traditions. Since the Museum’s acquisition of Tanner’s painting The Annunciation in 1899, its collections of African American art have grown significantly, especially during the last three decades.
2015	Drawn with Spirit: Pennsylvania German Fraktur from the Joan and Victor Johnson Collection	February 1, 2015–April 26, 2015	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition celebrates a recent promised gift of fraktur to the Museum from art collectors Joan and Victor Johnson. One of the most admired forms of American folk art, fraktur are decorated documents featuring brilliant colors and often whimsical imagery. Transplanted to Pennsylvania by German-speaking immigrants in the 1700s, these hand-drawn or printed works on paper are distinguished by a broken (or “fractured”) style of lettering. Small yet exuberant, fraktur celebrated important moments in the personal and domestic lives of Pennsylvania Germans.
2015	Ink and Gold: Art of the Kano	February 16, 2015–May 10, 2015	East Asian Art	This exhibition explores the stunning artistry of the esteemed Kano painters, the most enduring and influential school of painting in Japanese history. Established in the late fifteenth century, the Kano lineage of artists served as painters-in-attendance to Japan’s powerful shoguns for four hundred years. The exhibition presents more than 120 works of art spanning the school’s long and illustrious history, including large-scale, gold leaf folding screens and sliding doors as well as ink paintings, hanging scrolls, and folding fans. Ink and Gold is the first outside Japan—and the first anywhere since 1979—to so fully examine the Kano painters’ legacy.
2015	Shelley Spector: Keep the Home Fires Burning	March 7, 2015–September 24, 2015	Costume and Textiles	Shelley Spector has been actively engaged in Philadelphia’s arts community for years as a respected artist, innovative gallery owner, and champion of emerging talent. Her inventive use of pattern and salvaged materials intrigued senior curator Dilys Blum, who invited Spector to explore the Museum’s collection of textiles and create an installation of new artwork. Spector’s moving response is Keep the Home Fires Burning, a walk-through presentation of wood and textile-based sculpture that reflects on the universal quest for hope, home, and connectedness.
2015	Take One: Contemporary Photographs	April 25, 2015–August 9, 2015	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This is the first in a two-part series of exhibitions to feature photographs made since roughly 1975. Together these presentations offer two views of a period in which photography emerged as a key medium of contemporary art. By the last decades of the twentieth century, photography had established traditions of genre and craftsmanship, which an increasing number of artists chose to engage, revise, or reject.
2015	Dance: Movement, Rhythm, Spectacle	May 9, 2015–August 2, 2015	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Dance has long fascinated artists interested in capturing the human body in motion and the spectacle of performance. Beginning in the late 1800s, new forms of dance coincided with the development of modern visual art, leading to a dynamic exchange between the two forms of creative expression. This exhibition presents prints, drawings, and photographs that celebrate the world of dance, including lively imagery of famous performers, bustling scenes of nightlife, and abstract explorations of motion, rhythm, and atmosphere. It also features video excerpts of engaging performances of dances by Loie Fuller, Isadora Duncan, and Martha Graham, as well an act by Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and a recent production of the Ballet Russes’ Le Dieu Bleu (The Blue God).
2015	Adventures in Photography: Gifts from Harvey S. Shipley Miller	May 9, 2015–August 2, 2015	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition celebrates a recent gift by one of the leading American photography collectors of the 1970s and 1980s, Harvey S. Shipley Miller. The diverse works on view include rare early pictures, major examples of the Pictorialist art movement by figures such as Peter Henry Emerson and George Seeley, and a broad range of twentieth-century art and vernacular photographs.
2015	Inside Out	May 15, 2015–November 20, 2015		This summer and fall, sixty high-quality replicas of Museum masterpieces have found their way into communities around the region. Each participating neighborhood features about ten artworks within a short distance of each other. Join your family and friends and encounter art in unexpected places. Walk through the park, hop on a bike, or meander down Main Street through each exciting outdoor exhibition.
2015	Northern Lights: Scandinavian Design	May 23, 2015–October 4, 2015	European Decorative Arts	This exhibition surveys Scandinavian design from its triumphant showing at the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris to the present day, placing a special emphasis on objects made in the midtwentieth century, when an interest and appreciation for Scandinavian design reached new heights. A geographically diverse region, Scandinavia comprises five countries—Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland—each with its own distinct cultural identity and traditions. Yet their shared socioeconomic and political history has played a significant role in the creation of a unique and largely unified approach to design.
2015	Into Dust: Traces of the Fragile in Contemporary Art	June 6, 2015–October 25, 2015	Contemporary Art	This exhibition features recent acquisitions and other contemporary works from the Museum’s collection that confront the fragile nature of the human condition, including compelling examples by Gabriel Orozco, Alina Szapocznikow, and Peter Fischli and David Weiss. Probing the distinctions between the corporeal and transcendental, emergence and decay, belonging and displacement, life and death, the works in this exhibition both reveal and question the political, spiritual, and psychological forces that shape who we are.
2015	Discovering the Impressionists: Paul Durand-Ruel and the New Painting	June 24, 2015–September 13, 2015	European Painting	This extraordinary gathering of paintings reveals the story of Monet, Renoir, Degas, Manet, Pissarro, and their visionary art dealer and champion, Paul Durand-Ruel. The artists now known as the Impressionists once struggled to introduce their new style of painting to critics and the public. With Durand-Ruel, they forged an identity and moved from the margins to international fame. Recaptured in this exhibition are the often forgotten setbacks and breakthrough triumphs of Impressionism. Monet’s visions of graceful poplar trees, Renoir’s joyous dance paintings, and Pissarro’s luminous cityscapes showcase the talent recognized by Durand-Ruel.
2015	Take Two: Contemporary Photographs	August 22, 2015–November 15, 2015	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This is the second of two exhibitions in the Julien Levy Gallery to feature photographs made since roughly 1970, a period during which photography emerged as a key medium of contemporary art. Explore how contemporary artists have responded to changes in culture and technology by refashioning or rejecting photography’s conventions.
2015	The Wrath of the Gods: Masterpieces by Rubens, Michelangelo, and Titian	September 12, 2015–December 6, 2015	European Painting	The Wrath of the Gods focuses on Peter Paul Rubens’s masterpiece, Prometheus Bound, a singular vision of pain, torment, and creative struggle. This unprecedented exhibition places the work—one of the most important and beloved in the Museum’s collection—in conversation with paintings, drawings, and prints that inspired it. Highlights include Michelangelo’s Tityus, perhaps the artist’s most famous drawing, and Titian’s Tityus, the largest nonreligious painting on canvas of the Renaissance. The Wrath of the Gods brings together these and other pivotal works, offering a fresh opportunity to delve into the creative process of one of art history’s most important figures.
2015	Multitude, Solitude: The Photographs of Dave Heath	September 19, 2015–February 21, 2016	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	From a crowd gathered in Central Park to solitary figures lost in thought, Dave Heath’s images conjure feelings of alienation and a desire for human connection. Multitude, Solitude highlights the photographer’s black-and-white pictures of the 1950s and 1960s, an intense period of selfdiscovery and innovation for the artist. During these pivotal years, Heath developed groundbreaking approaches to narrative and image sequence, producing exquisite individual prints, handmade book maquettes, his poetic masterwork, A Dialogue with Solitude, and multimedia slide presentations. His sensitive explorations of loss, pain, love, and hope reveal Heath to be one of the most original photographers of those decades.
2015	AMOR by Robert Indiana	September 22, 2015–October 23, 2016		The Museum and the Association for Public Art are pleased to present Robert Indiana’s monumental sculpture AMOR atop the Museum’s famous steps. The colorful, six-foot-high sculpture has been described by the artist as a one-sentence poem.
2015	Plays of / for aRespirateur’ An Installation by Joseph Kosuth	October 21, 2015–October 30, 2016	Contemporary Art	Conceived by Conceptual art pioneer Joseph Kosuth, this installation includes a selection of his work along with a group of works by Marcel Duchamp from the Museum’s collection. The installation takes as its point of departure Duchamp’s notion of “elementary parallelism,” coined to refer to his pictorial treatment of time and movement in Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2), from 1912.
2015	Audubon to Warhol: The Art of American Still Life	October 27, 2015–January 10, 2016	American Art	The first survey of American still life in three decades, this exhibition offers 130 oil paintings, watercolors, and works in other media representing the finest accomplishments in the genre. Featuring masterpieces by John James Audubon, the Peale family, William Michael Harnett, Georgia O’Keeffe, Andy Warhol, and others, this exhibition explores American still life from its beginnings in the late 1700s to the Pop Art era of the 1960s.
2015	Art of the Zo: Textiles from Myanmar, India, and Bangladesh	November 11, 2015–March 20, 2016	Costume and Textiles	This exhibition offers a look at beautiful woven textiles of the Zo people of Myanmar, India, and Bangladesh. It spotlights traditional weavings worn for daily life and ceremonial occasions, such as weddings, funerals, and feasts of merit. Patterns, techniques, and local variations are closely examined, revealing the extraordinary beauty and craftsmanship of these distinctive creations.
2015	Notations/Joseph Marioni: Paintings, 2000–2015	November 14, 2015–May 22, 2016	Contemporary Art	Selected by artist Joseph Marioni, the paintings in this installation represent a focused survey of his work. At first appearing monochromatic, Marioni’s canvases produce color sensations that shift with changes in light and viewpoint. In fact, each work features several distinct layers of acrylic paint of contrasting colors and intensities. Through unhurried contemplation, we can gain a deeper understanding that color is not a fixed entity, but rather subject to fluctuations of light and our own perception.
2015	Work on What You Love: Bruce Mau Rethinking Design	November 21, 2015–April 3, 2016	European Decorative Arts	Bruce Mau is internationally recognized for his achievements in design, including visual identities, brand systems, books, packaging, and exhibition graphics. His most recent work applies design tools and concepts to environmental, social, economic, and political problems. This exhibition offers examples of Mau’s innovative solutions for clients like Coca-Cola, the country of Guatemala, and Biomuseo in Panama City, presenting a portrait of a tireless designer at the vanguard of the field’s search for solutions to global concerns.
2015	Picture This: Contemporary Photography and India	December 6, 2015–April 3, 2016	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Picture This features the work of four contemporary photographers for whom India is an important subject or setting: Gauri Gill, Sunil Gupta, Max Pinckers, and Pamela Singh. Diverse in nationality and place of residence, each of these artists brings a cosmopolitan perspective to his or her work. Whether photographing in rural Rajasthan or major cities like Mumbai or New York, they offer points of view that do not fit easily into categories of “insider” or “outsider.”
2015	Drawn from Courtly India: The Conley Harris and Howard Truelove Collection	December 6, 2015–March 27, 2016	South Asian Art	This exhibition presents masterful drawings from the royal courts of northern India. Lovingly amassed by artist Conley Harris and architectural designer Howard Truelove, the collection features practice sketches, preparatory drawings, subtly modeled scenes, and lightly colored compositions created between the 1500s and 1800s. With images at different stages of completion, the collection allows for a fascinating look at Indian workshop practice. Although the majority of the drawings served as preparatory studies for paintings, they are accomplished works of art in their own right.
2016	International Pop	February 24, 2016–May 15, 2016	Contemporary Art	International Pop navigates a fast-paced world packed with bold and thought-provoking imagery, revealing a vibrant cultural period shaped by widespread social and political revolution. This exhibition chronicles Pop art’s emergence as a global movement, migrating from the UK and the US to western and eastern Europe, Latin America, and Japan. Although Pop arose in distinct forms within each region, artists expressed a shared interest in mass media, consumerism, and figuration.
2016	Breaking Ground: Printmaking in the US, 1940–1960	March 26, 2016–July 24, 2016	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Breaking Ground reveals the ways in which artists in the 1940s and 1950s pushed the boundaries of printmaking. Through a selection of prints as well as ceramics, textile, and sculpture—all drawn from the Museum’s collection—this exhibition conveys the vibrant spirit and extraordinary growth of the arts during these decades.
2016	Inside Out	April 15, 2016–November 1, 2016		Inside Out brings large-scale, high-quality replicas of favorite works from the Museum’s collection to neighborhoods throughout the region. Head outdoors and experience beautiful images by Vincent van Gogh, Georgia O’Keeffe, Andy Warhol, and others right in your community. Inside Out brings treasures from the collection to you. Picnic in the park alongside Monet’s waterlilies, visit Brancusi’s Kiss on a romantic stroll, or get transported to Paris while brunching with friends on Main Street.
2016	Threads of Tradition	April 30, 2016–February 20, 2017	Costume and Textiles	Threads of Tradition focuses on the time-honored techniques used to create patterns in Central and West African textiles. Among the examples on view are complex strip-woven kente cloths made by the Asante and Ewe of Ghana, an impressive resist-dyed display textile (or ndop) from Cameroon, and raffia skirts that the Kuba of the Democratic Republic of the Congo create using piecing, appliqué, and embroidery.
2016	Vlisco: African Fashion on a Global Stage	April 30, 2016–January 22, 2017	Costume and Textiles	Explore how Vlisco became one of the most influential textile brands in African fashion and a design inspiration around the world. Known for its bold and colorful patterns, Vlisco creates fabrics that marry tradition with luxury. This exhibition highlights the company’s classic and new designs, follows the creation of a textile, and showcases a selection of contemporary fashions.
2016	Three Photographers/Six Cities	April 30, 2016–September 25, 2016	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition offers an in-depth look at three photographers who create powerful pictures of African cities: Cairo, Nairobi, Lagos, Johannesburg, Bamako, and Tombouctou. From Akinbode Akinbiyi’s observation of urban centers and Seydou Camara’s examination of Islamic manuscripts to Ananias Léki Dago’s pictures of offbeat locales, the images in this exhibition offer unique perspectives on contemporary African experience.
2016	Creative Africa	May 14, 2016–September 25, 2016		From contemporary photography, fashion, and architecture to centuries-old sculpture, Creative Africa presents the visionary work of artists throughout Africa. At the heart of the season is Look Again: Contemporary Perspectives on African Art, a major exhibition drawn from the Penn Museum’s distinguished African collection.
2016	The Architecture of Francis Kéré: Building for Community	May 14, 2016–September 25, 2016	European Decorative Arts	This exhibition sheds light on Francis Kéré’s inventive approach to building. Born in Burkina Faso and based in Berlin, Kéré integrates traditional knowledge and craft skills into innovative and sustainable buildings worldwide. In many of his projects, he maximizes local materials and community participation to reduce costs and ecological impact. This exhibition offers a look at some of his award-winning designs within an colorful interactive environment.
2016	Look Again: Contemporary Perspectives on African Art	May 14, 2016–December 4, 2016		This exhibition, which draws from the Penn Museum’s esteemed African collections, showcases works created in West and Central Africa from the 1500s to the early 1900s. It includes carved ivories and bronzes from the kingdom of Benin, Akan gold weights, Kongo power figures, Kuba textiles and vessels, Kota reliquary figures, and much more
2016	Embracing the Contemporary: The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection	June 28, 2016–September 5, 2016	Contemporary Art	This exhibition celebrates one of the nation’s leading collections of contemporary art. Assembled by Philadelphians Keith and Katherine Sachs, this collection features some of the most prominent European and American artists of the past fifty years. Many of the works have been generously donated or pledged as promised gifts to the Museum, marking a pivotal moment for the city as a premier destination for contemporary art.
2016	Classical Splendor: Painted Furniture for a Grand Philadelphia House	September 3, 2016–January 1, 2017	American Art	Classical Splendor showcases a suite of furniture designed in 1808 by Benjamin Henry Latrobe for the house of Philadelphia merchant William Waln and his wife, Mary. Inspired by the classical art of ancient Greece and Rome, the painted and gilded furniture is one of the greatest artistic triumphs of the early national period. This exhibition presents ten pieces from the Walns’ original set—all from the Museum’s collection—in a new light after comprehensive research and conservation treatment.
2016	Bruce Nauman: Contrapposto Studies, I through VII	September 18, 2016–April 16, 2017	Contemporary Art	This exhibition presents a new work by Bruce Nauman, Contrapposto Studies, I through VII,which continues the artist’s exploration of video, sound, and performance. Characteristic of his work over the last five decades, Nauman transforms a simple and subtle gesture into a complex network of images and sound.
2016	Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910–1950	October 25, 2016–January 8, 2017		From the start of the Mexican Revolution to the aftermath of World War II, artists and intellectuals in Mexico were at the center of a great debate about their country’s destiny. The exhibition tells the story of this exhilarating period through a remarkable range of images, from masterpieces by Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Frida Kahlo, and Rufino Tamayo to transfixing works by their contemporaries Dr. Atl, María Izquierdo, Roberto Montenegro, Carlos Mérida, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, and many others.
2016	Lino Tagliapietra: Painting in Glass	October 29, 2016–July 16, 2017	American Art	Best known for his glass vessels, Lino Tagliapietra has also devoted himself to realizing twodimensional glass works that match the scale and complexity of paintings. While these largescale abstract panels may initially be read as paintings on canvas, closer inspection reveals they have been made of kiln-fused glass that captures and transmits light. This exhibition highlights five vibrant works from his panel series, the culmination of a lifetime spent learning how the union of glass and heat unleashes a rare, transformative power.
2016	Jitish Kallat: Covering Letter	November 13, 2016–March 5, 2017	Contemporary Art	Covering Letter is an immersive installation and video projection by Mumbai-based artist Jitish Kallat. Projected onto a traversable curtain of cascading fog, this work presents a historical letter by Mahatma Gandhi to Adolf Hitler, written just weeks before the start of World War II. In the spirit of his doctrine of universal friendship, Gandhi begins the letter with the greeting “Dear friend.” Mist diffuses Gandhi’s projected text, echoing the fate of his message, which went unheeded.
2016	Design Currents: Oki Sato, Faye Toogood, Zanini de Zanine	November 19, 2016–March 12, 2017	European Decorative Arts	This exhibition presents the work of three contemporary designers—Oki Sato of Tokyo, Faye Toogood of London, and Zanini de Zanine of Rio de Janeiro—who deftly use industrial and handcrafted materials and techniques to create functional yet deeply expressive objects. It looks at the links between context and creativity by examining the distinct culture and methods of each designer’s studio. It also shares how their versatile skills, focus on collaboration, and experimentation with artisanal and industrial materials help shape our experience of the objects and their surroundings.
2017	American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent	March 1, 2017–May 14, 2017	American Art	This extraordinary gathering of rarely seen masterpieces traces the rise of a uniquely American medium. Shaped by the genius of Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent, the watercolor movement tells a story about innovation, experimentation, and the creation of bold new ways of seeing the world.
2017	Phulkari: The Embroidered Textiles of Punjab from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection	March 12, 2017–July 9, 2017	Costume and Textiles and South Asian Art	Discover the beauty of phulkari, ornately embroidered textiles from Punjab, a region straddling Pakistan and India. In addition to stunning examples from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection, this exhibition features traditional phulkaris from the Museum’s collection and highfashion ensembles by one of India’s leading designers, Manish Malhotra.
2017	Marcel Duchamp and the Fountain Scandal	April 1, 2017–December 3, 2017	European Painting	One hundred years ago, Duchamp’s Fountainturned the art world upside down. Was it art? A hoax? Join us as we celebrate the centennial of the provocative and influential work that changed the course of modern art. Learn the story of Fountain, with period photographs, publications, and more of the artist’s readymades from our unrivaled Duchamp collection.
2017	Another Way of Telling: Women Photographers from the Collection	April 8, 2017–July 16, 2017	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition features exceptional and rare photographs spanning the history of the medium. Included are works by pioneers Diane Arbus, Julia Margaret Cameron, and Anne Brigman and contemporary artists Kelli Connell, Ann Parker, and Elaine Stocki. In this diverse selection, women explore identity in and out of the studio, interrogate female roles in the domestic sphere, and disrupt perceptions of the world through street photography.
2017	Witness: Reality and Imagination in the Prints of Francisco Goya	April 22, 2017–September 6, 2017	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Francisco Goya witnessed decades of political turmoil and social upheaval as court painter to four successive rulers of Spain. Among his greatest achievements were four series of etchings that chronicle the transformation of Spanish society and his own personal visions: Los Caprichos (The Caprices), Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War), La Tauromaquia (Bullfighting), and Los Disparates (The Follies). Near the end of his life, Goya also produced a set of four grand lithographs known as the Bulls of Bordeaux. This exhibition highlights prints from each series, exploring the imagery and techniques that make Goya one of the greatest graphic artists of all time.
2017	Channeling Nature by Design	April 22, 2017–July 16, 2017	European Decorative Art	From the botanical wallpaper of William Morris to the streamlined cutlery of Zaha Hadid, design has always found inspiration in nature. This exhibition examines how designers of handmade and industrial objects—including furniture, pottery, kitchenware, and even a 3Dprinted neckpiece—have responded to the beauty and fragility of the natural world.
2017	Inside Out	May 15, 2017–Mid-December 2017		Inside Out brings large-scale replicas of favorite works from the Museum’s collection to neighborhoods in and around Philadelphia. Head outdoors and experience beautiful images by artists like Vincent van Gogh, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Andy Warhol right in your community. Picnic in the park alongside Monet’s waterlilies, visit Brancusi’s Kiss on a romantic stroll, or get transported to Paris during brunch on Main Street.
2017	Cy Twombly’s Iliad	May 20, 2017–October 8, 2017	Contemporary Art	Cy Twombly’s Fifty Days at Iliam returns to the Museum from a retrospective of the artist’s work at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Experience the celebrated painting cycle alongside related drawings and sculptures before it goes back to its permanent gallery later this year
2017	Wild: Michael Nichols	June 27, 2017–September 17, 2017	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Explore the work of legendary photographer Michael “Nick” Nichols: artist, technical innovator, and ardent advocate for preserving natural habitats. Be transported through the split-second magic of images captured in some of the most remote areas of the world. Nichols’s stunning photographs offer intense confrontations with the power and fragility of the wild and a reflection of our own humanity.
2017	Philadelphia Assembled	September 9, 2017–December 10, 2017		The first exhibition of its kind at the Museum, Philadelphia Assembled joins art and civic engagement. Initiated by artist Jeanne van Heeswijk, together with hundreds of collaborators from across the city, the project explores Philadelphia’s changing landscape and tells a story of active resistance and radical community building. Challenging, inspiring, and as expansive as the city, Philadelphia Assembled asks: how can we collectively shape our futures?
2017	Old Masters Now: Celebrating the Johnson Collection	November 3, 2017–February 19, 2018	European Painting	In 1917 John G. Johnson, the most famous lawyer of his day, left his astonishing trove of European art to the city of Philadelphia. One hundred years later, we’re taking a new look at one of this country’s most remarkable collections. Encounter treasures by the likes of Botticelli, Bosch, Titian, Rembrandt, and Monet—and see how we keep making new discoveries about the collection. In this exhibition, get a behind-the-scenes look at a living, breathing collection and experience first-hand how our understanding and appreciation of these works have evolved over the years.
2017	Patricia Urquiola: Between Craft and Industry	November 19, 2017–March 18, 2018	European Decorative Art	Internationally acclaimed designer Patricia Urquiola creates cool, innovative objects for the home and office. Perhaps more than any other designer working today, she has successfully fused the artisanal and the industrial. In November 2017, she received the Design Excellence Award from Collab, a group that supports modern and contemporary design at the Museum.
2018	Varujan Boghosian: Master Manipulator	January 12, 2018–April 25, 2018	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Varujan Boghosian (American, born 1926) holds a deep fascination with objects that evoke the past. As much a collector as an artist, he scours antique shops and flea markets for materials to use in his imaginative sculptures and collages. By cleverly combining and recontextualizing our castoffs—books, cards, toys, figurines, tools, glass, twine—he exploits their expressive power in sly, often poetic ways.
2018	Design in Revolution: A 1960s Odyssey	February 3, 2018–September 9, 2018	European Decorative Art	From Pop Art and psychedelia to the civil rights and anti-war movements, the 1960s was a decade of liberation—and of great loss. See how designers, artists, and architects responded to the tumultuous period that still looms large in the American imagination. Highlights include the Museum’s surprising collection of vintage rock ‘n’ roll posters and a series of powerful images of Martin Luther King Jr.
2018	Keith Smith at Home	February 17, 2018–July 8, 2018	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Friendship, love, desire: Keith Smith’s life is an open book. For five decades, the artist has used surprising combinations of materials to chronicle his experiences. In this exhibition, explore an array of Smith’s mixed-media photographs and prints, and—his specialty—handmade artist’s books, most from his own collection.
2018	Jean Shin: Collections	March 24, 2018–July 15, 2018		Contemporary artist Jean Shin (American, born South Korea 1971) transforms everyday objects—worn-out shoes, fashion remnants, military uniforms—to create dynamic works about connection and belonging. Her installations, often made from donated and discarded materials, raise provocative questions about what, and how, we consume. On view in this exhibition are six large-scale installations and one video that tell powerful stories about the military, the fashion industry, and Shin’s own Asian American community.
2018	Modern Times: American Art 1910–1950	April 18, 2018–September 3, 2018	American Art	From jazz and the jitterbug to assembly lines and skylines: the early twentieth century was a time of great social, artistic, and technological change. Artists responded with a revolutionary language of shapes and colors. See how Georgia O’Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, Jacob Lawrence, and others challenged convention and forged bold new styles to fit the times.
2018	Experiments in Motion: Photographs from the Collection	April 21, 2018–August 19, 2018	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Photography distills the flow of time into singular, still moments. The artists in this installation stop, extend, and rearrange time for their own creative ends, whether to convey personal memories, render visible overlooked aspects of nature, contemplate mortality, or document the passage of time. Through their unique approaches to capturing motion, they encourage us to look at what may and may not be in plain view.
2018	Rachel Rose: Wil-o-Wisp/The Future Fields Commission	May 2, 2018–September 16, 2018	Contemporary Art	Rachel Rose’s mesmerizing new video explores magic and coincidence in the life of a woman in 1500s England. This is the first work resulting from the Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media, a collaborative initiative between the Museum and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Italy.
2018	Biting Wit and Brazen Folly: British Satirical Prints, 1780s–1830s	May 4, 2018–December 5, 2018	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition reveals the widespread appeal of caricature in Georgian England and demonstrates the ways in which such images teased and provoked audiences. Featuring over sixty brightly colored etchings from the Museum’s large collection of British satirical prints, it presents images of the everyday with a riot of color and a roar of laughter.
2018	Agnes Martin: The Untroubled Mind/Works from the Daniel W. Dietrich II Collection	May 19, 2018–October 14, 2018	Contemporary Art	Visionary and idiosyncratic, Agnes Martin (1912–2004) aimed to express universal emotional states in her precise compositions. This intimate installation explores the ideas that shaped Agnes Martin’s minimalist art, and reflects upon her enduring friendship with longtime supporter Daniel W. Dietrich II.
2018	Baroque: The Art of Drama	June 8, 2018–October 18, 2023	European Painting and Sculpture European Decorative Arts	Experience the grandeur and theatricality of the Baroque style.
2018	Face to Face: Portraits of Artists	June 26, 2018–October 14, 2018	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	See how photographers helped craft the public personas of their creative subjects in this stunning collection of rare photographs from the Museum’s collection. The exhibition features works by Dorothy Norman, Man Ray, Richard Avedon, Alice O’Malley, and many others who captured some of the most fascinating artists and performers of the past 150 years.
2018	Larry Fink: The Boxing Photographs	August 11, 2018–January 1, 2019	Prints, Drawings and Photographs	Larry Fink’s powerful, unsentimental photographs reveal the heart of close-knit communities. Here, he takes us inside what he calls “the deep fraternity” of the boxing gym, its intimacy and its grit, captured in more than seventy-five luminous gelatin-silver prints.
2018	Between Nature and Abstraction: Edwin Dickinson and Friends	August 18, 2018–February 10, 2019	American Art	Edwin Dickinson’s inventive work sets him apart from any other American painter of the twentieth century. Drawing from nature, heroes like El Greco and Cézanne, and the many styles of modernism, Dickinson worked with a singular independence. See how he and contemporaries Edward Hopper, Willem de Kooning, and others followed their own stars and pursued idiosyncratic paths to modernism
2018	The Duchamp Family	August 18, 2018–August 11, 2019	European Painting	Marcel Duchamp was one of the most original figures of his era. He also belonged to a closeknit clan of artistic innovators, each of whom made distinctive contributions to modern art. This exhibition highlights the Duchamps and the many connections linking their groundbreaking works.
2018	Yael Bartana: And Europe Will Be Stunned	September 21, 2018–January 1, 2019	Contemporary Art	Blurring fact and fiction, artist Yael Bartana reimagines historical narratives to spur a dialogue about urgent social and geopolitical issues of our time. This immersive exhibition presents her provocative film trilogy And Europe Will Be Stunned, which chronicles the radical vision of the fictional Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland.
2018	Fabulous Fashion: From Dior’s New Look to Now	October 16, 2018–March 3, 2019	Costume and Textiles	Experience the drama and glamour of some of the most creative feminine fashions ever designed, from romantic ball gowns to audacious contemporary ensembles, and everything in between. See how designers have used color and pattern, shape and volume, draping, metallics, and embellishments to continually reinvent the art form. The pieces in the exhibition—daywear, bridal wear, and more—showcase the Museum’s outstanding costume collection. Many are on view for the first time.
2018	Arte Povera: Homage to Amalfi ’68	October 27, 2018–July 7, 2019	Contemporary Art	Fifty years ago, a three-day exhibition and happening in Amalfi changed the course of contemporary art in Italy. Arte Povera reacted against the dominance of Minimalism and Pop Art and engaged in a type of guerrilla art-making emphasizing process and the use of humble, inexpensive materials. This installation pays tribute to that groundbreaking event and features a number of works originally exhibited in Amalfi.
2018	Little Ladies: Victorian Fashion Dolls and the Feminine Ideal	November 11, 2018–March 3, 2019	Costume and Textiles	Before Barbie and American Girl, there was Miss Fanchon. The ultimate toy for privileged girls in the 1860s and 1870s, she and her friends were seen as models of ladylike perfection. These dolls came with an amazing array of dresses, undergarments, and meticulously crafted accessories, from gloves and jewelry to roller skates and calling cards. Bring the kids—or just your love of all things miniature—and marvel at these tiny Victorian treasures.
2018	Dieter Rams: Principled Design	November 18, 2018–April 14, 2019	European Decorative Art	Love the look and feel of your smartphone? Thank Dieter Rams. His quietly innovative versions of household products, stripped of any extraneous features, continue to influence industrial design today. Throughout a celebrated career at the German manufacturer Braun and the furniture company Vitsœ, Rams created elegant and intuitive forms that remain timeless monuments to understatement and ease of use.

Year	Title	Dates	Department	Additional Info
2019	Antony Gormley: STAND	January 24, 2019–June 16, 2019	Executive Office	Perched high on the museum’s Rocky steps, ten cast-iron ”blockwork” sculptures by British artist Antony Gormley bring art outside, releasing it into the city’s shared space.
2019	Long Light: Photographs by David Lebe	February 9, 2019–May 5, 2019	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Long Light, the first museum survey devoted to American photographer David Lebe, examines his remarkable artistic range and experimentation over five decades, including his powerful representations of gay experience and living with AIDS.
2019	Whitman, Alabama	February 23, 2019–June 9, 2019	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Filmmaker Jennifer Crandall’s Whitman, Alabama brings Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” to life through the voices of Alabama residents. The film installation also features photographs that suggest the richness of American identity.
2019	We the People: American Prints from Between the World Wars	March 21, 2019–July 24, 2019	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Explore prints depicting the good times, hard times, and war-time experiences of everyday Americans in the 1930s and 1940s.
2019	The Impressionist’s Eye	April 16, 2019-August 18, 2019	European Painting	Peer over the shoulder of Claude Monet, Mary Cassatt, Vincent van Gogh, and others as they make their indelible mark on canvas, paper, and bronze.
2019	Yoshitoshi: Spirit and Spectacle	April 16, 2019–August 18, 2019	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Discover the brilliant colors and spirited lines of Yoshitoshi, the great master of the traditional Japanese woodblock print. This exhibition showcases some seventy works from the Museum’s extraordinary collection of Yoshitoshi prints, the largest repository of his work outside Japan.
2019	The Art of Collage and Assemblage	June 8, 2019–September 2, 2019	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	From Joseph Cornell’s curious found-object boxes to Jess’s fantastical “paste-ups,” discover the seemingly limitless ways that modern and contemporary artists have mixed materials to create something entirely new and surprising.
2019	Souls Grown Deep: Artists of the African American South	June 8, 2019–September 2, 2019		Discover an extraordinary collection of textile art, sculpture, and painting acquired from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation.
2019	Horace Pippin: From War to Peace	July 2019 – June 21, 2021	American Art	Injured during World War I, Horace Pippin turned to painting to help mend his body and spirit. In the process, he distinguished himself as one of the most original artists of his generation. This gathering of six paintings highlights Pippin’s pursuit of a range of themes, from racial violence and the alienation of war to the serene beauty of his home in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
2019	Herbert Ferber: Form into Space	July 2, 2019–January 5, 2020	American Art	A Herbert Ferber sculpture animates the air around it. In the 1940s, inspired by Surrealism, the artist began creating increasingly abstract works composed of energetic flourishes and intertwining forms, like lines of bold calligraphy. This exhibition showcases Ferber’s sculptures and related drawings from the mid-twentieth century, offering viewers a glimpse into this distinctive and innovative artist’s mind as he grappled with space and form.
2019	Present Tense: Recent Gifts of Contemporary Art	July 27, 2019–February 4, 2020	Contemporary Art	In this gallery, a selection of works gifted to the museum over the last decade testifies to the generosity and commitment of our patrons to enrich our collection of contemporary art.
2019	Photography and Memory	August 3–October 23, 2019	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Many of the pictures displayed in this installation highlight significant monuments, memorials, and landscapes. Some focus on the senses, especially touch and sound. And others connect recollection and imagination. Documentary works jostle alongside wildly experimental ones, and historical images hang next to contemporary counterparts.
2019	Marisa Merz	August 16, 2019–June 20, 2022	Contemporary Art	A selection of sculptures and drawings celebrates the life and legacy of pioneering Italian artist Marisa Merz (1926–2019). Occupying a unique and pivotal position in postwar European art, Merz’s work combines keen attention to materials with a deeply personal symbolism.
2019	Kōgei: Art Craft Japan	August 31, 2019 – April 4, 2022	East Asian Art	Craftsmanship is a major hallmark of Japanese design. This installation celebrates Japanese kōgei—one-of-a-kind, handcrafted objects made with traditional techniques and natural materials. The works on display highlight the specialized skills of contemporary kōgei artists working in clay, glass, and fabric.
2019	Designs for Different Futures	October 22, 2019–March 8, 2020	European Decorative Arts	Journey through an electrifying landscape of designs that respond to the future in surprising, ingenious, and occasionally unsettling ways. From daring flights of imagination to products already on the market, the works on view explore what lies ahead for the earth and its inhabitants—through the interplay of design, art, science, and technology.
2019	New to the Museum	October 30, 2019–February 19, 2020	European Decorative Art	Exceptional new additions to the museum’s collection of works on paper, including photographs by Kati Horna and Irving Penn, prints by Nicole Eisenman and Emma Amos, and drawings by John Sloan and Pablo Picasso.
2019	Off the Wall: American Art to Wear	November 10, 2019–March 13, 2020	Costume and Textiles	Delight in the astonishing inventiveness and techniques of a generation of mixed-media artists who pioneered a new art form designed around the body.
2020	A Collector’s Vision: Highlights from the Dietrich American Foundation	February 1, 2020–November 15, 2020	American Art	A rare selection of American art from the 1700s and 1800s, including portraits of George Washington, a teapot made by Paul Revere, and silver from colonial Philadelphia. Explore H. Richard Dietrich Jr.’s vision as a collector and his foundation’s mission to share important examples of American art with the public.
2020	Woodcuts: Groove and Grain	February 28, 2020–September 7, 2020	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Explore a selection of woodcuts—from the 1500s to the present—that illustrates the many ways that artists have pushed the boundaries of the medium.
2020	Art of Care	September 16, 2020–April 4, 2021	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Examine the ways artists over the last century have pictured and envisioned acts of caregiving as observers, practitioners, patients, and activists.
2020	Ghosts and Fragments	October 3, 2020–January 8, 2023	Contemporary Art	See how contemporary artists like Nick Cave and Robert Gober explore the nature of presence and absence, reconsidering the physical form of the body or emotional and political states of being.
2021	The Undertaker by Yael Bartana	February 12, 2021–December 5, 2021	Contemporary Art	Watch the American debut of Yael Bartana’s latest film, staged and shot at sites across Philadelphia—including the museum, Independence Hall, and Laurel Hill Cemetery—as part of the artist’s 2018 public performance organized by the museum, Bury Our Weapons, Not Our Bodies!
2021	Expressions	March 19, 2021–August 23, 2021	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Explore the ways artists make visible the inner emotions, thoughts, and motives of their subjects.
2021	Unexpected Surfaces	April 16, 2021–August 16, 2021	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Explore how artists like Howardena Pindell, Cai Guo-Qiang, and Robert Rauschenberg have used surprising materials to create curious and beautiful effects in their drawings and prints.
2021	Senga Nengudi: Topologies	May 2, 2015–July 25, 2021	Contemporary Art	Situated at the intersection of sculpture and performance, Senga Nengudi’s provocative works reimagine the possibilities for abstract art through an exploration of both the Black female body and the collective practices of community and ritual.
2021	New Grit: Art & Philly Now	May 7, 2021–August 22, 2021	Contemporary Art	Twenty-five emerging and established artists with strong Philadelphia connections explore ideas of being and belonging through ceramics, fiber, glass, painting, photography, sculpture, video, and more.
2021	Teresita Fernández: Fire (United States of the Americas)	May 7, 2021–January 2, 2023	Contemporary Art	Teresita Fernández unearths and exposes hidden histories embedded in landscape. In this striking installation, she renders the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and all the US territories as scorched earth. Through the use of charcoal and hand-drawn smoky shadows, she invokes fire as a symbol of both destruction and regeneration.
2021	Painting Identity	August 13, 2021–October 17, 2021	American Art	This installation explores how fifteen American artists—including Barkley Hendricks, Edith Neff, and Jacob Lawrence—used portraiture to frame their perceptions of people, experiment with techniques, and reflect upon social issues.
2021	Pop Art: A New Vernacular	August 21, 2021–February 6, 2022	Contemporary Art	See how artists like Rosalyn Drexler, Andy Warhol, and Billy Apple transformed images of celebrity, kitsch, and advertising into potent statements.
2021	Seascapes	August 26, 2021–April 30, 2022	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The sea’s power and beauty have long commanded the attention of artists. This concise installation of prints, drawings, and photographs explores some of the ways the ocean has fired the imaginations of artists working in France, the United States, the Netherlands, and Japan from the 1600s to today.
2021	Authentic: Truth and Perception in Chinese Art	September 25, 2021–July 3, 2022	East Asian Art	Through a close look at a selection of works from the collection, explore the act of copying from the Chinese artistic perspective, and learn how attitudes toward authenticity are nuanced and culturally specific.
2021	Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror	September 29, 2021–February 13, 2022	Contemporary Art	This vast, unprecedented retrospective—simultaneously staged at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York—features a stunning array of the artist’s most celebrated paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints as well as many lesser-known and recent works. Each a self-contained exhibition, the two related halves mirror one another and provide rare insight into the working process of one of the greatest artists of our time.
2021	Richard Benson: The World Is Smarter Than You Are	October 3, 2021–January 23, 2022	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition surveys nearly fifty years of Benson's photography, a wide-ranging body of work that reflects his humility and boundless curiosity about the world.
2021	Emma Amos: Color Odyssey	October 11, 2021–January 17, 2022	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Across her prolific career as a pioneering artist, educator, and activist, Emma Amos (American, 1937–2020) created boldly colorful and innovative works that explore the intersections of race and gender in American life. This exhibition surveys her body of work from the 1950s to the 2010s for the first time, spotlighting her inventive approach to printmaking, painting, and weaving as well as her signature practice of combining distinctive materials and artistic techniques.
2021	Circus: Bouroullec Designs	November 20, 2021–May 30, 2022	European Decorative Arts	Explore the work of brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, leading figures in contemporary industrial design and recipients of the 2021 Collab Design Excellence Award.
2022	Encounters In Exile	February 12, 2022–March 19, 2023	South Asian Art	The Ramayana is an ancient epic that is recounted, visualized, and performed throughout South Asia. Explore diverse interpretations of this story from the 1200s to 2005, spanning different mediums including paper, stone, and fabric.
2022	Elegy: Lament in the 20th Century	February 12–July 24, 2022	American Art	See how artists have responded to tragedy, grappled with mortality, and commemorated those who have passed.
2022	Waiting for Tear Gas	March 12–July 17, 2022	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This installation offers many different visual interpretations of political protests, with works spanning from 1913 to 2017 and a geographic scope that runs from Philadelphia to Tokyo.
2022	Pictures in Pictures	March 12–July 17, 2022	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Across the centuries and around the world, artists and makers have created images that include other images in their compositions. The artworks in this exhibition present a wide range of approaches to this motif, from the expected—embedded paintings, photographs, and drawings—to the surprising and immaterial—illusions, reflections, and shadows. This exhibition gathers works from across the museum’s collection to explore what this artistic device can do.
2022	Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas	April 11–July 31, 2022	Contemporary Art	Encounter the poetic sensibility and technical virtuosity of one of the leading abstract artists of our time. Sean Scully’s arresting paintings and works on paper, presented here in a comprehensive fifty-year retrospective, explore his signature stripes and reflect the artist’s bold experimentation with scale and composition.
2022	By Night	April 15–October 23, 2022	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Artists have turned to the nighttime for inspiration for centuries. By Night presents nocturnal scenes from the museum’s collection and explores how artists have responded to the challenge of depicting darkness in the medium of printmaking.
2022	Ellsworth Kelly: Reflections on Water and Other Early Drawings	April 22–October 15, 2023	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Ellsworth Kelly’s birth, this installation showcases an extraordinary loan of eighteen drawings.
2022	Johnson’s French Finds	April 23, 2022–July 23, 2023	European Paintings and Sculpture	Discover the collection of John G. Johnson (1841–1917), who, from humble beginnings, became one of the most important lawyers of the Gilded Age. This installation explores Johnson’s efforts to collect French paintings from the 1700s, which were all the rage among wealthy Americans of his generation.
2022	Ink and Brush: The Beauty and Spirit of Japanese Calligraphy	May 3, 2022–July 3, 2023	East Asian Art	Explore the rich history of Japanese calligraphy, from traditional forms to contemporary interpretations. This installation features works in our collection from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, showcasing the many varieties of calligraphy as an art form.
2022	Martine Syms: Neural Swamp / The Future Fields Commission	May 14, 2022–July 9, 2023	Contemporary Art	This exhibition is the first in the United States to feature Martine Syms’s newly commissioned multichannel video installation, Neural Swamp. Embracing the tactics and technologies of sport, cinema, and surveillance, Syms’s work challenges racial and gender stereotypes and investigates what it means to be Black and a woman in a hyper-digitized world.
2022	Cultivating Design: Recent Acquisitions	June 25–October 16, 2022	European Decorative Arts	Explore recent additions to the museum’s collection of modern and contemporary design. From furniture, textiles, and tableware to posters and consumer electronics, the diverse works in this installation illustrate how design shapes our lives in fundamental ways.
2022	Nam June Paik & John Godfrey: Global Groove	July 21–November 27, 2022	Contemporary Art	Global Groove remixes pop culture and the avant-garde, envisioning a future media landscape saturated with a wide array of content. Sampling a vast audiovisual archive pieced together through lively editing and propelled by an upbeat soundtrack, Nam June Paik and John Godfrey generate a cross-cultural collage. Experimental performances by American artists Merce Cunningham, John Cage, and Charlotte Moorman, as well as by Korean artist Sun Ock Lee and Diné (Navajo) artist Cecilia Sandoval, are intercut and interspersed with Japanese commercials and US news broadcasts.
2023	Oneness: Nature & Connectivity in Chinese Art	July 30, 2022–October 29, 2023	East Asian Art	This exhibition features the work of four contemporary artists whose practices examine the boundaries between humans and nature from a philosophical, spiritual, and material perspective.
2022	In With The New…	August 27, 2022–January 22, 2023	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This installation features recently acquired works on paper alongside prints, drawings, and photographs in the museum’s collection since the 1980s. Together, these compelling objects, old and new, highlight the museum’s efforts to broaden the types of art and artists who enter the collection.
2022	Far & Away	August 27, 2022–January 22, 2023	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Discover the rich variety of travel photographs from the museum’s collection. Spanning the nineteenth century to the present, these images offer an expansive view of a beloved genre of picture-making.
2022	River of Forms: Giuseppe Penone’s Drawings	September 24, 2022–February 26, 2023	Contemporary Art	Discover transformative works by artist Giuseppe Penone that explore the relationship between human experience and the natural world. River of Forms examines the central role that drawing plays in his practice and how it has informed many large sculptural works from the 1960s until today.
2022	Macho Men: Hypermasculinity in Dutch & American Prints	August 27, 2022–March 20, 2023	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	See how artists from vastly different historical moments turned robust male physiques into symbols loaded with meaning. This exhibition explores important questions about masculinity, labor, and nationhood.
2022	Matisse in the 1930s	October 20, 2022–January 29, 2023	European Painting	Matisse in the 1930s explores changes in the artist’s work across multiple formats, including easel and decorative painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, and the illustrated book. The exhibition also addresses the methods of working that renewed Matisse’s style, as well as his modern renderings of mythological themes from antiquity, his depictions of female models in the studio, and his partnership with his studio manager and model, Lydia Delectorskaya.
2022	Celebrating the Brandywine Workshop	October 27, 2022–May 15, 2023	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This installation celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the Brandywine Workshop and Archives, an important center for printmaking in Philadelphia.
2022	Rhythms of Nature: The Art & Design of DRIFT	November 20, 2022–September 10, 2023	European Decorative Arts	The Amsterdam-based studio DRIFT creates sculptures, environments, and performances that offer striking commentaries and speculative imaginings about humanity’s relationships with nature and technology.
2022	Day With(out) Art 2022: Being & Belonging	December 1, 2022–January 2, 2023	Contemporary Art	Presented in partnership with Visual AIDS, Being & Belonging highlights stories of people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) from the perspectives of artists who are themselves living with HIV/AIDS.
2023	Fikret Atay: Tinica (2004)	January 6–June 1, 2023	Contemporary Art	Through handheld filming and documentary video techniques, Tinica portrays a young man on a mountaintop improvising empty tin cans into a drum set. Overlooking the suburbs of Batman, a Turkish city near Iraq, he abruptly stops playing and kicks the cans down the hillside—a rebellious gesture as familiar to rock and roll as it is to performance art.
2023	Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi—A Marvellous Entanglement	January 28–May 29, 2023	Contemporary Art	Across nine screens, Isaac Julien’s Lina Bo Bardi—A Marvellous Entanglement (2019) explores the life, work, and legacy of the Italian-Brazilian modernist architect Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992).
2023	House of Photographs: The Kasakoff-Adams Collection	February 18–July 10, 2023	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition introduces a major gift of photographs from the collection of Alice Kasakoff Adams and John W. Adams. The Adamses were both anthropologists who began collecting art as graduate students in the late 1960s, at the very outset of what is now known as the “photo boom.”
2023	Scandal & Virtue: Staging Kabuki in Osaka Prints	March 30–July 24, 2023	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This installation examines the way Kabuki actor prints in Japan during the Edo period (1615—1868) functioned as conduits of fame and scandal.
2023	Unbound: Islamic Arts of the Book	April 1–November 15, 2023	South Asian Art	The artworks on view in this installation were once part of books created for Muslim patrons in India and Pakistan.
2023	Judith Joy Ross	April 24–August 6, 2023	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The work of Judith Joy Ross marks a watershed in the lineage of the photographic portrait.
2023	A Century of Kanthas: Women’s Quilts in Bengal, 1870s–1970s	May 19, 2023–January 1, 2024	Costume and Textiles South Asian Art	Trace the changing techniques and meanings of Kantha, an exquisite textile form.
2023	In Bloom: Botanical Illustration through the Centuries	May 20–October 22, 2023	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	The works of art in this installation represent European and American artists’ enduring interest in the visual splendor of flowers.
2023	The Artist’s Mother: Whistler & Philadelphia	June 10–October 29, 2023	European Painting and Sculpture	Examine the circumstances surrounding the creation of Whistler's iconic portrait and its legacy in Philadelphia.
2023	Documentary / Anti-Graphic: A Surrealist Eye on Photographs	July 29, 2023–January 17, 2024	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition explores a pair of terms devised by the pioneering art dealer and dedicated surrealist Julien Levy.
2023	Golden State: California Prints from the Alan Selsor Collection	August 3, 2023–January 15, 2024	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	This exhibition showcases lithographs and screenprints that explore the Golden State's storied past, social upheavals, and scenic landscapes.
2023	Stripped Bare: The Academic Male Nude	August 4, 2023–January 15, 2024	Prints, Drawings, and Photographs	Works in the galleries illustrate the long tradition of male nude drawing.
2023	The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989	October 21, 2023–February 11, 2024	American Art	Discover contemporary Korean art through the uniquely creative works of 28 internationally celebrated artists.

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