PAFA publishes exhibition catalogues, as well as research and reference works on its collection and on individual artists. The most important titles from the last few decades are listed here (in reverse chronological order). Most of these publications are available though the PAFA shop at Portfolio.
George Tooker
By Robert Cozzolino, Marshall N. Price, and M. Melissa Wolfe, 2008, 192 pages, 65 plates.
ISBN-10: 1858944562
ISBN-13: 978-1858944562
Laylah Ali: Typology
By Alex Baker, 2007, 51 pages, 33 plates.
ISBN 978-0-943836-30-0
Art in Chicago: Resisting Regionalism, Transforming Modernism
By Robert Cozzolino, 2007, 82 pages, 100 plates.
ISBN 0-943836-29-8
Catalogue based on the exhibition of the same name at PAFA, 4 February–2 April, 2006.
Daniel Garber: Romantic Realist
By Lance Humphries, 2007, 48 pages, 27 plates.
ISBN 1-87963-20-4
Co-published with the Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pa., in conjunction with the exhibition PAFA, 25 January–8 April, 2007.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: 200 Years of Excellence, 1805-2005
2005, 310 pages, 274 color plates.
ISBN 0943836247 hardcover
ISBN 0943836255 soft cover
Celebrating the collection and the institution for its 200th Anniversary celebration, with essays covering the history of PAFA, its buildings, the school and the museum collection.
The Chemistry of Color: African-American Art, 1970-1990, The Harold A. and Ann R. Sorgenti Collection of Contemporary African-American Art
By Kim Sajet, 2005, 96 pages, 60 color plates.
ISBN 0943836263
In Private Hands: 200 Years of American Painting
2005, 120 pages 120, 80 color plates.
ISBN 0943836271
Accompanied the exhibition celebrating PAFA’s 200th Anniversary, in which iconic American artworks from private collections were brought together tracing two centuries of American art. Essays review the history of each work and its place in American art.
Ellen Harvey: Mirror
With essays by Alex Baker and Shamim M. Momin, 2005, 90 pages, 55 plates.
ISBN 0-943826-28-X
Based on the installation of the same name at PAFA, 15 October 2005–8 January, 2006.
American Originals: The Vivian O. and Meyer P. Potamkin Collection
2004, 120 pages, 40 plates. Limited-edition hard cover.
ISBN 0943836220
Celebrates ten American masterpieces given to PAFA by Vivian O. and Meyer P. Potamkin. Three illustrated scholarly essays cover the Potamkins' 2002 gift, the Potamkins as collectors and their special interest in the Ashcan School. In addition, the book highlights 18 additional works once owned by the Potamkins.
American Watercolors at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
By Jonathan Binstock, 2000, 96 pages, 79 plates.
ISBN 0943836212
Andy Warhol, Social Observer
2000, 64 pages, 55 plates.
ISBN 0943835204
Maxfield Parrish, 1870 – 1966
By Sylvia Yount, 1999, 160 pages, 134 plates. Published by Harry N. Abrams for PAFA.
ISBN 0810943670
American Sculpture in the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1997, 351 pages, 398 illustrations.
ISBN 0-295-97692-6
A comprehensive, illustrated catalogue of the American sculpture in PAFA’s collection, with essays on each sculptor, each work, exhibition histories, and bibliographic references.
To Be Modern: American Encounters with Cézanne and Company
1996, 79 pages, 82 illustrations.
ISBN 0-943836-18-2
This work deals with the advent of American modernist art in the period from 1905 to 1925, as reflected in a landmark Academy exhibition of such work held in 1921, and partially recreated for this 1996 exhibition.
Eakins and the Photograph: Works by Thomas Eakins and his Circle in the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
By Susan Danly and Cheryl Leibold, 1994, 235 pages, 241 illustrations. Smithsonian Institution Press.
ISBN 1-56098-353-1
I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin
1994. Contributors: Mark A. Bockrath, Barbara A. Buckley, David C. Driskell, Linda Roscoe Hartigan, Richard J. Powell, Judith Stein, and Judith Wilson, 210 pages, 197 illustrations.
ISBN 0-87663-785-3
Cool Waves and Hot Blocks: The Art of Edna Andrade
1993, 32 pages, 20 plates.
ISBN 094383600x
Writing About Eakins: The Manuscripts in Charles Bregler's Thomas Eakins Collection
By Kathleen A. Foster and Cheryl Leibold, 1989, 411 pages, 50 plates.
ISBN 0-8122-8107-1
Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition
By Annette Blaugrund, 1989, 304 pages, over 300 plates.
ISBN 0-943836-12-3
Catalogue of the exhibition of the same name at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 3 February–15 April, 1990. Published in association with Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, New York.
Red Grooms: A Retrospective, 1956-1985
Contributors: John Asberry, Janet K. Cutler, Judith E. Stein, 1984, 240 pages, 186 illustrations.
ISBN 0-943836-03-04
Drawing Toward Building: Philadelphia Architectural Graphics, 1732-1986
Contributors: James F. O'Gorman, Jeffrey A. Cohen, George E. Thomas, G. Holmes Perkins, 1986, 295 pages, 186 plates.
ISBN 0-8122-8042-3 cloth
ISBN 0-943836-06-9 paper
Catalogue of an exhibition of architectural drawings held at PAFA, 10 October 1986–4 January 1987
Images of a Vanished Life: Plains Indian Drawings from the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1985, 52 pages, 54 plates.
ISBN 094383605
Pictorial Photography in Philadelphia: The Pennsylvania Academy's Salons, 1898–1901
1984, 41 pages, 40 plates.
LC# 84-42544
Arthur B. Carles: Painting With Color
By Barbara Wolanin, 1983, 176 pages, 133 plates.
ISBN 094383600x
William Rush: American Sculptor
1982, 212 pages, 199 plates.
ISBN 094383600x
Contemporary American Realism Since 1960
By Frank H. Goodyear, Jr., 1981, 255 pages, 143 plates.
ISBN 0-8212-1126-9