Frequent Learner Program—Now Save Even More!
This year, fourteen art history courses will be offered between October 2007 and May 2008. Subscribe to all fourteen NOW and receive a discounted rate of $770 for members, $960 for nonmembers. A single, special ticket will provide entry to all courses. No refunds for unused classes. Offer valid until October 27, 2007. Call the Ticket Center at (215) 235-7469 to take advantage of this special offer.
Preregistration is recommended for all courses. Free Infrared Listening Systems are available at the West Information Desk for auditorium lectures. All courses are held in the Van Pelt Auditorium and the Seminar Room. Prices for Art History courses include Museum admission. All information is subject to change.
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Saturdays: 2 lectures, May 10 and 31; 9:30 - 11:45 a.m.
Members: $64
Nonmembers: $80
This course surveys the history of American photography, with an emphasis on the ways landscape was used to forge and explore American identity. Join us for an in-depth look at the work of key figures such as Carleton Watkins, Timothy O’Sullivan, Alfred Stieglitz, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Ansel Adams, Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, and Robert Frank.
- Applied Science, Practical Art: Documents, Surveys, and the Romance of the American West (PB)
- Gilded Lilies: Pictorialism and Its American Advocates (PB)
- Inventing an American Style: Ansel Adams / Berenice Abbott / Walker Evans (KW)
- Road Trips: Photographic Journeys Up, Down, and Across the United States (PB)
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Saturdays: 2 lectures, May 10 and 31; 1:30 - 3:45 p.m.
Members: $64
Nonmembers: $80
This course examines decorative arts, furniture, and furnishings in Western Europe and the United States from 1870 to 1914. The unprecedented rise in the demand, production, marketing, and retailing of manufactured goods during this period spurred new approaches to design that sought to reconcile art, craft, and industry. Join us as we explore several of these innovative approaches, integrating examples from the Museum’s design collection. In addition to analyzing objects and interiors from this period, lectures address the role of international exhibitions, department stores, mail-order catalogues, and advertising.
*This course is the first in an ongoing series on design that will look at objects in the Collab Gallery in the Perelman Building of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.- Christopher Dresser and “Industrial” Design; "Art Furniture"
- The Aesthetic Movement; Art Nouveau and Its Variations
- The Arts and Crafts Movement
- Standardization and Efficiency
For more information, please contact the Division of Education by phone at (215) 684-7580, by fax at (215) 236-4063, or by e-mail at .




