Reading Public Museum

photo courtesy Reading Public Museum

Reading, PA

610-371-5850

http://www.readingpublicmuseum.org/

• Insects Illuminated: Photographs, Prints and Drawings by Evan Summer (9/26/05)
• Samuel L. Schmucker: The Golden Age of Postcards (12/22/04)
• Places Near and Far: Award Winning Original Art from Favorite Children's Books (9/2/04)
• Essay by Francis R. Ricci in the catalogue for the exhibition titled "Sterling Strauser: A Modernist Revisited" (11/21/01)
• Introduction by Robert P. Metzger in the catalogue for the exhibition titled "Matthew Daub: In the Shadow of Industry, Watercolors and Drawings of Eastern Pennsylvania" (11/21/01)
• Evan Summer: Landscapes and Nocturnes (5/8/01)
• Walter Stuempfig (1914-1970) (11/9/98)

The Reading Public Museum is located at 500 Museum Road, Reading PA. While the art of many nations and people is represented in the permanent collection, special emphasis has been placed on painting. The fine art collection includes more than seven hundred oil paintings by American and foreign artists such as Benjamin West, Milton Avery, John Singer Sargent, N.C. Wyeth, George Bellows, Raphaelle Peale, Henry Raeburn, Frederic Church, Joshua Reynolds, Julien Dupre, and Edgar Degas. In addition, the Reading Public Museum possesses over one hundred sculptures, thousands of graphics, and more than two hundred water colors. Please call the museum for hours and admissions.

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