Philadelphia Museum of Art

Upcoming Exhibitions

Zoe Strauss: Ten Years

January 14, 2012 - April 22, 2012
Zoe Strauss: Ten Years is a mid-career retrospective of the acclaimed photographer’s work and the first critical assessment of her ten-year project to exhibit her photographs annually in a space beneath a section of Interstate-95 in South Philadelphia.
Tree Chalice

Van Gogh Up Close

February 1, 2012 - May 6, 2012
Vincent van Gogh was an artist of exceptional intensity, not only in his use of color and exuberant application of paint, but also in his personal life. Drawn powerfully to nature, his works--particularly those created in the years just before he took his own life--engage the viewer with the strength of his emotions. This exhibition focuses on these tumultuous years, a period of feverish artistic experimentation that began when van Gogh left Antwerp for Paris in 1886 and continued until his death in Auvers in 1890.
   

Craft Spoken Here

May 5, 2012 through July 2012
Drawn mainly from the Museum's rich holdings, Craft Spoken Here celebrates the art form of craft with about 50 objects ranging from large sculptural works to small pieces of jewelry that represent a diversity of cultures.
The Large Bathers
   

Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia

June 20, 2012 - September 3, 2012
The theme of an earthly paradise, or Arcadia, has been popular in theater, poetry, music, and art since antiquity. This exhibition explores the theme in three such paintings of the time: Paul Gauguin’s Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (1898), Paul Cézanne’s The Large Bathers (1906), and Henri Matisse’s Bathers by a River (1909-17).
The Life Line
   

Shipwreck! Winslow Homer and The Life Line

September - December 2012
Winslow Homer’s masterpiece The Life Line (1884) is the center of an exhibition about the making and meaning of an iconic American image of rescue. One of the great popular and critical successes of the artist’s career, the painting engages age-old themes of peril at sea and the power of nature, while celebrating modern heroism and the thrill of unexpected intimacy between strangers thrown together by disaster.
Mystic Sky with Self-Portrait
   

Full Spectrum: Prints from the Brandywine Workshop

September - November 2012
In 2009, Philadelphia’s Brandywine Work­shop donated 100 prints by 89 different artists to the Museum in memory of late director Anne d’Harnoncourt. Full-Spectrum: Prints from the Brandywine Workshop is a celebration of this generous gift as well as the 40th anniversary of the work­shop’s founding.


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