Monthly Calendar

Reconfiguring the Morris Gallery into a black box, PAFA is proud to present the 2009 season with a series of six single channel video works that integrate music and film in diverse ways. On view, June 30 - August 2, 2009, Threshold to the Kingdom (2000) by British artist Mark Wallinger (running time 11 min. 10 sec.)  Filmed surreptitiously and relayed in slow motion, the video shows people entering the arrivals lounge of London City Airport.  

Docent-led tour of the permanent collection featuring some of American art's finest paintings and sculptures.

Public Treasures/Private Visions is a rare opportunity to see paintings that seldom travel outside of New York City, as well as paintings from superlative select private collections of Hudson River School art.  The exhibition includes works by Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, Asher Durand, Frederic Church, Jasper F. Cropsey, Frederick Kensett, Martin Johnson Heade, William Stanley Haseltine, Sanford R. Gifford and Thomas Moran.

Opening Reception, Friday, June 26, 6 - 8 p.m.

Elizabeth Osborne has been a prominent figure at PAFA and in Philadelphia since the 1950s.  This exhibition brings together works from all periods in her career, including a haunting series of interiors, innovative land and seascapes of the 1970s, large watercolors of the 1980s, and work of the last two decades exploring nature's micro and macrocosm.

Sidney Goodman is among the most important American figurative painters of the post-World War II era.  The exhibition is the first major presentation of Goodman's works on paper and will comprise over fifty large-and-small scale works.

2009 PAFA Alumni Invitational
Sponsored by the PAFA Alumni Association
Legacies: Works by Twelve Former Students of Elizabeth Osborne and Sidney Goodman
June 26 - September 20, 2009

Docent-led tour of the permanent collection featuring some of American art's finest paintings and sculptures.

Admissions Information Session for Prospective Students