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Philadelphia Inquirer | Spring 2020 Art Museums Preview

The Philadelphia Inquirer highlights PAFA's spring exhibitions—Making Community, At One Stroke, "Awakened in You", and Invisible City—for its roundup of Spring 2020 programming.

This exhibition spotlights 100 recently acquired prints and includes works by many well-known artists of the last 40 years. It will run concurrently with a small exhibition of prints by Helen Frankenthaler. And coming Feb. 21 is a show of more than 70 works gifted to PAFA by former Philadelphia School Superintendent Constance E. Clayton.

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At One Stroke: Prints by Helen Frankenthaler
“Awakened in You”: The Collection of Dr. Constance E. Clayton
Making Community: Prints from Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Brodsky Center at PAFA, and Paulson Fontaine Press
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February 13, 2020 - 11:25 AM

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