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The Albert M. Greenfield American Art Resource Online
With over 16,000 works, PAFA's ever-evolving and internationally renowned permanent collection ranges from 18th- and 19th-century masters Benjamin West, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, and Mary Cassatt, to modern and contemporary artists including Charles Demuth, Jacob Lawrence, Alice Neel, Mickalene Thomas, Andy Warhol, and Kehinde Wiley.
PAFA is committed to collecting the finest examples of historic, modern, and contemporary American art. The museum is especially interested in supporting women artists and artists often overlooked by the mainstream art world—artists of color, artists from regional, smaller art communities, and artists from the LGBT communities—with the belief that we can then tell a comprehensive story about our cultural richness.
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![[The Smugglers' Landing Place]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/1984_x_196_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [All the books were about Napoleon]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78bb_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [And carrried her gently away.]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78dd_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [And in the winter they loved with warmth and good humor]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78gg_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [And she waited for Napoleon's return]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78oo_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [And taken away.]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78h_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [And was espied by the powerful Baron von K.]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78f_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [Anguished, she became ill again]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78eee_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [Betrayed.]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78qq_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [Brain fever:]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78ww_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [Evolution:]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78b_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [Finally, Maurice found her]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78ccc_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [Foregiveness:]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78kkk_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [Goodbye.]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78lll_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [Hallucination:]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78aaa_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [He laid her there]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78uu_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [He led her back to Napoleon]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78jjj_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [He told her of how Napoleon returned:]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78ddd_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [Her arms felt like string.]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78v_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [Her arrival at the castle]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78i_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [Her companions were the other creatures the alchemist had created]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78d_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [Her death:]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78fff_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [Her spirit flew out into the night]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78mmm_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [Her spirit mourned for her body.]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78hhh_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [Imprisoned:]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78t_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [In the spring Napoleon set off to conquer Russia]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78hh_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [In the spring she emerged as a large moth]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78x_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [Instruction:]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78c_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [Introduction:]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78a_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [Maurice found her spirit wandering in the forest.]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78iii_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [One day an apple seller came]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78pp_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [One day she stood at the window]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78e_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [Revelry:]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78m_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [Running away.]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78q_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [She discovered she was pregnant.]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78ii_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [She escaped him by flying in the library window]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78aa_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [She flew in the garden of Napoleon Bonaparte]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78z_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [She found herself]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78k_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [She lay ill.]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78vv_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [She made a cocoon]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78w_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [She unraveled her shirt]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78u_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [She was an enormous moth]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78y_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [She was arrayed as a bride.]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78j_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [She was carried across the threshold]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78n_l.jpg)
![The Adventuress [She was overtaken by horsemen.]](/sites/default/files/artworkpics/2011_1_78r_l.jpg)