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painting by Timothy Curtis
Art At Noon
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Timothy Curtis: If I Had Your Hand I'd Cut Mine Off

Winslow Homer's painting Fox Hunt
Member Program

Member Preview: Making American Artists

Colorful landscape with trees and meadow in the background.
Continuing Education
Online

Group Critique with Al Gury (Online)

Drawing of three gentleman with paper
Continuing Education
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How to Write Your Artist's Statement (Online)

Still life with lemons
Continuing Education

The Art of Color: Color Mixing for Oils and Acrylics Workshop

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Dark abstract painting with silhouettes of human figures
Continuing Education
Online

The Figure as a Point of Departure Workshop (Online)

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Illustration of bats on a tree branch in tan and brown tones
Continuing Education

Mixed Media on Paper Workshop

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Painting by Shushana Rucker - Dark urban landscape with train tracks and high rise buildings in distance
Continuing Education

The Painting Knife Workshop

Illustration by James Boyle of Pamela Colman Smith
Museum After Hours

Strange Sensations Tarot Night

smiling child and her family
Family Art Day

Winter Holidays Special

family working on their colorful art project
Family Art Day

Celebrate Community - Rescheduled!

child wearing a bat mask
Family Art Day

Halloween Extravaganza

Families making art in the galleries
Family Art Day

Welcome Back to the Museum!

Frank Stella geometric print, Sinjerli Variation Squared with Colored Ground I
Special Tours

Gift/Deeds: Collectors at PAFA

painting by Horace Pippin entitled John Brown Going to His Hanging
Special Tours

Making American Artists Highlights Tour

hanging mobile sculpture

Philadelphia Inquirer | Where to find 10 extraordinary artworks by the Calder family on display in Philadelphia

The Calder Foundation has unveiled its vision for "Calder Gardens" in Philadelphia, a new home to showcase three generations of Philadelphia artists. In anticipation, Stephen Salisbury includes PAFA's ties to the Calder family in the Philadelphia Inquirer, highlighting where to view their work even…

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two images, side by side. On the left is Arthur B. Carles, An Acrtress as Cleopatra, 1914; Elizabeth Catlett, Women Walking (Standing Woman), 1987, cast 1997. 
Art At Noon
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Making American Artists & American Museums

Bronze sculpture of a lion.

Determined to Be: The Sculpture of John Rhoden

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Fisher Brooks Gallery
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Image credit: Charles Willson Peale, George Washington as Colonel in the Virginia Regiment, 1772. Oil on canvas, 50½ × 41½ in. Courtesy of Museums at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia.
Art At Noon
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The Portrait of Hanadagá•yas; or, George Washington Reconsidered

Medical illustration of Black pregnant person and Black fetus
Art At Noon
Online

Chidiebere Ibe: Tackling Misrepresentation in Medicine

View of Washington Foyer from the grand staircase in HLB
Special Tours

Making A Landmark Tour

Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012), Mother and Child, 1991, small onyx sculpture
Special Tours

Gift/Deeds Curator's Tour with Brittany Webb

rising sun graphic

Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America

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Historic Landmark Building
Frank Stella (b. 1936), Sinjerli Variation Squared with Colored Ground IV, 1981, Offset lithograph and screenprint on Arches Cover paper, 32 x 32 in. Bequest of Bernice McIlhenny Wintersteen.
Special Tours

Gift/Deeds Highlights Tour

 

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