Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Left photo: David Graham, Center photo: Nathan Benn

Philadelphia, PA

215-972-7600

http://www.pafa.org

• Out of the Chateau: Works from the Demuth Museum (12/04/07)
• Dreaming of a Speech Without Words: the Paintings and Early Objects of H.C. Westermann (6/23/07)
• Art in Chicago: Resisting Regionalism, Transforming Modernism (1/13/06)
• Art History's out-of-body Experience; essay by Robert Cozzolino (9/26/05)
• In Private Hands: 200 Years of American Painting (9/26/05)
• Eamon Ore-Giron: Mirage; essay by Alex Baker (3/23/05)
• Point of Sight: Thomas Eakins' Drawing Manual Reconstructed (3/21/05)
• Full View: American Painting and Sculpture (1720-2005) (9/13/04)
• Heartland: Paintings and Drawings by Bo Bartlett, 1978-2002 (7/16/04)
• The Sublime Landscape (4/14/04)
• Ideal City: Exhibition by Adam Cvijanovic (2/2/04)
• Art at Home Plate: Philadelphia Baseball Legends on Canvas (1/16/04)
• African American Artists Celebrate Community (11/11/03)
• Times of Change 1913-1945: Masterpieces of the Permanent Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (7/3/03)
• Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Acquires Pantocrator Triptych by Vincent Desiderio (5/6/03)
• Edwin Dickinson: Dreams and Realities (8/9/02)
• American Sublime: Epic Landscapes of Our Nation, 1820-1880 (3/1/02)
• Restructured Reality: The 1930s Paintings of Francis Criss (11/15/01)
• Process on Paper: Drawings from Charles Bregler's Thomas Eakins Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (8/16/01)
• About Face (8/4/00)
• American Watercolors at the Pennsylvania Academy (6/23/00)
• Robert Gwathmey: Master Painter (6/13/00)
• Andy Warhol: Social Observer (3/15/00)
• Paris 1900: The "American School" at the Universal Exposition (11/6/99)
• Impressionists at PAFA: From Beaux to Benson (10/18/99)
• Charles Burns (9/7/99)
• Jane Piper: Paintings and Drawings from the Artist's Estate (9/7/99)
• John Twachtman: An American Impressionist (5/29/99) and updated (10/6/99)
• Parks and Portraits: Dona Nelson, 1983-88 (11/17/98)
• Maxfield Parrish, 1870-1966 (3/19/98)
• From Violet Oakley to David Lynch: "The Unbroken Line"Celebrates One Hundred Years of Art Education (9/19/97)
• Embodied Landscapes: Selected Works on Paper by April Gornick (12/22/97)

Founded in 1805, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has been home to America's artists for 200 years. The Academy collects and exhibits the work of distinguished American artists, and is renowned for training fine artists. Notable alumni include Rembrandt Peale, William Harnett, Mary Cassatt, Thomas Eakins, Cecilia Beaux, Henry Tanner, Maxfield Parrish, Robert Henri, John Sloan, Violet Oakley, John Marin, Arthur B. Carles, Charles Sheeler, Charles Demuth, Robert Gwathmey, Edna Andrade, Charles Searles, Jody Pinto, Bo Bartlett, Vincent Desiderio, and Sarah McEneaney. The Museum is located at the corner of Broad and Cherry Streets, two blocks north of City Hall and one block west of the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Hours and fees are available through the museum's website.

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