School of Fine Arts

Image from the Chicago World's Fair in 1893

Thomas Eakins and the World’s Fairs

Thomas Eakin's The Agnew Clinic

Thomas Eakins and the World’s Fairs: Modernism and Eakins Clinic Paintings

Thomas Eakin's The Gross Clinic

Thomas Eakins and the World’s Fairs: Medical Art and the Gross Clinic

Self Portrait from Summer Academy

Pre-College Summer Program Open House

Summer Academy student painting

Pre-College Summer Program Open House

Yellow Roses #2 Barbara Takenaga, 2005

Begin Again Again: Koru Mindfulness Series

Ashley Garner, MFA Installation in the Historic Landmark Building, 2020

Toast to ASE: Graduate Students

Rebecca Segall, Carol, mixed media, 2020

Toast to ASE: Undergraduate Students

Graduation 2021

Graduation 2021

Velocity Fund Information Session

Hilda Belcher (American, 1881–1963),The Checkered Dress (Portrait of O'Keeffe), 1907

Women Picturing Women

Casa Blanca, Evening 16x20 oil on linen 2020

The View From Here

HLB_stairs

Philadelphia’s National Historic Landmarks Celebrate International Day for Monuments 2021

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is excited to celebrate International Day for Monuments and Sites on April 18th. Global Philadelphia Association is partnering with twenty-one historic sites and museums to present "Reopen House Day" and encourage in-person and virtual exploration of…

April 14, 2021

Teen drawing in PAFA's Cast Hall

Pre-College Summer Program Open House for High School Teachers

Photograph of a teen drawing from a cast at PAFA

Pre-College Summer Program Open House

Deon Robinson

Associate Professor, Computer Illustration and Typography, Digital Painting, Drawing and Painting

Eustace Mamba, "Weighing Escape Options"

120th Annual Student Exhibition

May 14, 2021–June 6, 2021

Dyani White Hawk

PAFA Announces New Additions to the Permanent Collection

PAFA announces the latest acquisitions of a wide range of artworks to its renowned American art collection. Ranging in date from 1869 to 2020, the museum acquired 168 works of art through purchase and gift.

Press Release

March 31, 2021

Image of the artist with her paintings, photo from Vogue magazine (Photographed by Anton Corbijn, Vogue, October 2018 / Painting: Elizabeth Colomba. Winter, 2017. Oil)

Representations In Paint

Image by Roberto Osti, a figure transforms from a line drawing, skeletal structure, to full realized human figure.

Dynamic Human Anatomy

Interior of the Historic Landmark building

The Making of Furness and Hewitt’s Historic Landmark Building

PAFA Gallery

Continuing Education

Graduate Programs Information Session for CE Students

Grad Crit

Continuing Education

Graduate Programs Information Session for CE Students

PAFA Hallway

Continuing Education

Graduate Programs Information Session for CE Students

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