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Thomas Eakins, "Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic)" (1875)

Artsy | Thomas Eakins’s “The Gross Clinic” May Be the Most Important American Painting

Artsy's Alina Cohen writes, "In 1875, Thomas Eakins decided to paint a picture that would glorify his hometown of Philadelphia. [...] The work has become perhaps the most important painting in the history of American art."

In the News
Image: Tailinh Agoyo via The Warrior Project

Philadelphia Citizen | PAFA Event Celebrates Local Indigenous Culture Missing From Art

PAFA’s new landscapes exhibit is the jumping-off point for this weekend’s celebration of the people missing from those paintings: Local Native Americans.

Image: Tailinh Agoyo via The Warrior Project

 

In the News
Gilbert Lewis, Pale Gold, 1991

Only Tony: Portraits by Gilbert Lewis

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Historic Landmark Building
Dr. Anna O. Marley

Dr. Anna O. Marley, PAFA Curator of Historical American Art, Named a 2020 Fellow of the Center for Curatorial Leadership

Curator Dr. Anna O. Marley, has been named a Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellow for 2020. This prestigious fellowship provides curators with classes taught by Columbia Business School Professors, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to self-knowledge, leadership, and the social…
Press Release
The painting "Skaters" by Gari Melchers (top right) at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is a near twin to one looted by Nazis and recently recovered by the FBI at an upstate New York museum. / Image: Heather Khalifa (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Philadelphia Inquirer | Painting looted by Nazis has a twin at PAFA—and another in Virginia

When the federal government recently announced that a painting stolen by the Nazis in 1933 from the family of a Berlin publishing tycoon had been recovered from the Arkell Museum in upstate New York, Anna Marley, curator at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, did a double-take. The painting…
In the News
Elizabeth Colomba, "Riding Places" (2019)

PAFA Recognized as a Pioneer in Collecting Art by Women

PAFA singled out for its leadership in collecting artwork by women by a new survey of 26 major American art institutions from In Other Words / Artnet News.
Press Release
Robert Pruitt, Star Pilot, 2012

Making Community: Prints from Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Brodsky Center at PAFA, and Paulson Fontaine Press

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Fisher Brooks Gallery
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
"Falls of Niagara" by William Russell Birch

Landscapes Are Not Neutral, but Rather Perspectives of Power

The waterways depicted in "From the Schuylkill to the Hudson: Landscapes of the Early American Republic" are most well-known by their current Euro-American names, but are situated in the homelands of the Lenape people. “Some visitors to PAFA may have heard of the contemporary 'museums are not…
Perspectives
"Street View (Hoagiefest)" 2019 by Alex Da Corte Courtesy the Artist, Karma, NY and Sadie Coles HQ, London

Contemporary Pieces Force a Second Look in "Ancient History of the Distant Future"

At first look, an over-sized Wawa Hoagiefest donut might appear out-of-place in PAFA’s Historic Landmark Building. In the Rotunda "Street View (Hoagiefest)" by Alex Da Corte, a phototex of the artist’s hand clutching a Wawa donut is layered on the wall behind a painting by Thomas Birch. PAFA’s…
Perspectives
Deborah Willis, I Made Space for a Good Man, 2009

Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale

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Fisher Brooks Gallery
School of Fine Arts Gallery: Gift of the Women’s Board
Tuttleman Sculpture Gallery
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Landscape Evening, by Paul Weber Pennsylvania Academy purchase, by subscription

Preserving the Past

With works dating back to the 1790’s, time was not on the side of conservator Mary McGinn when she began preparing for PAFA’s current exhibition, From the Schuylkill to the Hudson: Landscapes of the Early American Republic.
Perspectives
installation view of AHDF

New York Times | Seeing the Past from the Future

Artists look to the past, think about historical points of reference and reframe them for the contemporary moment.
In the News
eakins, gross clinic

Anatomy Academy: Graduate Symposium

paint torch

Claes Oldenburg: Paint Torch

Lenfest Plaza
grumman greenhouse

Jordan Griska: Grumman Greenhouse

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Lenfest Plaza
FAA Stringing it together
Family Art Day

Stringing It Together

bierstadt niagra
Special Tours
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Director’s Tour of the American Landscape

liza lou
Art At Noon

The Allure and Power of Shiny Objects: Liza Lou

FAA Ocean without a shore
Family Art Day

Ocean Without A Shore

landscape

Landscapes Are Not Neutral

FAA- Ballet
Family Art Day

The Art of Ballet

students

Drawing for Comics

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family arts academy
Family Art Day

Imaginary Miniature 3D Landscapes

wayahsti richardson

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