Museum

Installation view of PAFA and Dr. Barnes, 2012, Photo by Rick Echelmeyer

PAFA and Dr. Barnes

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Historic Landmark Building
William Trost Richards, An Essay at Twilight, Newport, 1877, watercolor on paper, 3 5/16 x 5 in., Gift of Dorrance H. Hamilton in memory of Samuel M.V. Hamilton, 2008.5.22

A Mine of Beauty: Landscapes by William Trost Richards

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Historic Landmark Building
Two paintings, one by Georgia O'Keefe, one by Max Weber

The Modernist City

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Historic Landmark Building
Woman Surrounded by Dogs, 1979-80, Oil on linen, 65 x 96 in., Hall Art Foundation

Dive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting

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Fisher Brooks Gallery
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Peter Blume, Tasso's Oak, ADD

Peter Blume: Nature and Metamorphosis

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Fisher Brooks Gallery
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Frank Furness and George Wattson Hewitt, ELEVATION:ON:BROAD:STREET:, 1873-76, Black ink, watercolor wash, and pencil on white paper on mount, 25 1/2 x 34 1/2 in., 1876.6.8

Building a Masterpiece: Frank Furness' Factory for Art

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Historic Landmark Building
Joan Brown, Untitled (Self portrait in Turban with Eskimo Dog Pin), 1972, Enamel on canvas, 24 7/8 x 17 7/8 in., Art by Women Collection, Gift of Linda Lee Alter, 2011.1.12 © Estate of Joan Brown, courtesy of George Adams Gallery, New York

The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World

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Fisher Brooks Gallery
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
COMPANION (PASSING THROUGH), 2010, Fiberglass, metal structure and paint, 208 1/2 x 169 1/4 x 185 in., Photo by Tom Crane

KAWS @ 30th Street Station

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Susan Macdowell Eakins (1851-1938), Girl in a Plaid Shawl, ca. 1880-85, Oil on canvas, 28 1/16 x 21 in., Charles Bregler’s Thomas Eakins Collection, purchased with the partial support of the Pew Memorial Trust and the Henry C. Gibson Fund, 1985.68.39.6

Modern Women at PAFA: From Cassatt to O'Keeffe

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Historic Landmark Building
Samuel F.B. Morse Exhibit

A New Look: Samuel F.B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre

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Historic Landmark Building
Bacchanal Wine Gala and Auction 2014 Invitation

Bacchanal Wine Gala and Auction 2014

Event at PAFA

Homeschool Workshop - Patterns in Nature

Event at PAFA

Curatorial Lecture: David Lynch

Brittany Webb headshot

Brittany Webb

Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth-Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection
Laura Wheeler Waring

“Awakened in You”: The Collection of Dr. Constance E. Clayton

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Historic Landmark Building
Event at PAFA
Free & Reduced Admission Days

CollegeFest 2019

Conservation Lecture with Mary McGinn

Free Events at PAFA this September

From free museum days to lectures with artists and family art-making classes, PAFA has a full calendar of free events for everyone this month.
stuart davis

Sea Change: Highlights from PAFA’s Collection of 20th-century Art

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Walter & Leonore Annenberg Gallery
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Adrián Villar Rojas, A study from the series “Two Suns,” 2015. Ceramic sculpture, 7 x 11 x 32 inches. KADIST Collection. Image: KADIST

"Ancient History of the Distant Future" Opens at PAFA September 26th

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is pleased to announce the opening of Ancient History of the Distant Future, a major exhibition featuring work by contemporary artists installed in spaces throughout PAFA's 19th century Historic Landmark Building and in conversation with selections…
Press Release
thomas birch, fairmount water works

Washington Post | PAFA Makes the Case for a Schuylkill River School

From the Schuylkill to the Hudson: Landscapes of the Early American Republic comes with a provocative and fascinating thesis: that there was indeed a Schuylkill River School, centered in Philadelphia, exploring themes and ideas that would be taken up by far more famous figures, including Thomas Cole…

In the News
Alumni Erin Addie '18 and Gary Pergolini '18 move the replica Justice Bell into the Rotunda of the Historic Landmark Building.

Silent No More: Replicating the Justice Bell

Alumni Erin Addie '18 and Gary Pergolini '18 are back at PAFA. The pair recently installed their replica of the Justice Bell in the Rotunda of the Hamilton Building for a temporary exhibition.
Alumni News
replica justice bell installed the HLB rotunda, august 2019

The Justice Bell

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The Rotunda
Historic Landmark Building
Bust of Alexander Hamilton

Philadelphia Celebrates Alexander Hamilton

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bannister

After Under the Oaks

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Frances M. Maguire Gallery

 

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