Philadelphia Museum of Art

Saturday, December 7, 2013

As one of the largest museums in the United States, the Philadelphia Museum of Art invites visitors from around the world to explore its renowned collections, acclaimed special exhibitions, and enriching programs, both in person and online.

Léger: Modern Art and the Metropolis

Join exhibition curator Anna Vallye on a tour through the colorful galleries of Léger: Modern Art and the Metropolis. See how Léger and his contemporaries were inspired by the energy and movement of the modern city to combine different arts into their own work. A sculpture expresses motion like a film, paintings become like advertising posters, and color combines with architecture to form murals, all working together to create a new vision of urban space brought to life.

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Sol LeWitt: Lines in Four Directions in Flowers

In 1981, leading conceptual artist Sol LeWitt (American, 1928–2007) was invited by the Fairmount Park Art Association to propose a public artwork for a site in Fairmount Park. Installed thirty years after its conception, Lines in Four Directions in Flowers is a work of monumental scale, made up of more than 7,000 plantings arranged in strategically configured rows.

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New In the Galleries

Six Artists at the Weyhe Gallery, New York

Galleries 121-123, first floor (Berton and Sallie Korman Galleries)

Carl Zigrosser, the Museum’s first professional curator of prints, arrived in Philadelphia in December 1940 at age forty-nine, having spent the previous twenty-one years as director of exhibitions and art sales at the Weyhe Gallery in New York. Located at 794 Lexington Avenue, the Weyhe Gallery was an art bookshop-cum-gallery that became one of the foremost venues for contemporary American printmakers in the first half of the twentieth century. During his tenure at Weyhe, Zigrosser developed a stable of artists who showed regularly at the gallery, many of whose works he acquired in the 1920s and 1930s. Large and varied, the collection eventually made its way to the Museum.