Below is a list of past and current exhibitions relating to American Art. For all current and upcoming exhibitions, click here.
Past and Current Exhibitions
Shipwreck! Winslow Homer and The Life Line
September 22, 2012 - January 1, 2013Learning from Frank Furness: Louis Sullivan in 1873
October 6, 2012 - December 30, 2012Craft Spoken Here
May 5, 2012 - August 12, 2012Romancing the West: Alfred Jacob Miller in the Bank of America Collection
June 4, 2011 - September 18, 2011Informed by Fire: Highlights of American Ceramics
March 6, 2010 - July 13, 2011George Inness in Italy
February 19, 2011 - May 15, 2011The Montiers of Philadelphia
December 30, 2009 - Spring 2011Art in Revolutionary Philadelphia
April 17, 2010 - April 3, 2011An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing The Gross Clinic Anew
July 23, 2010 - January 9, 2011Eakins on Paper: Drawings and Watercolors from the Collection
September 4, 2010 - December 19, 2010Revisiting the Centennial: Resources from the Library and Archives
June 14, 2010 - December 2010Interactions in Clay: Contemporary Explorations of the Collection
March 31, 2010 - July 11, 2010Railways of Hope and Fear: Selections from the Fernberger Print Collection
March 17, 2010 - June 30, 2010Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand by Thomas Eakins
May 17, 2007 - May 3, 2010Wrought and Crafted: Jewelry and Metalwork 1900–Present
May 9, 2009 - February 7, 2010Philadelphia Treasures Eakins’s Gross Clinic and Saint-Gaudens’s Angel of Purity
August 2, 2008 - July 19, 2009Andrew Wyeth: In Memoriam
January 29, 2009 - May 3, 2009Cultural Convergence: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Craft
November 1, 2008 - April 19, 2009The Fix on Colonial Philadelphia Furniture: A Secret Guide to Cabinetmakers’ Prices
July 3, 2008 - February 22, 2009Thomas Chambers (1808-1869): American Marine and Landscape Painter
September 27, 2008 - December 28, 2008American Folk Painting from the Collection
July 19, 2008 - December 2008Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt
September 16, 2008 - December 14, 2008Precious Possessions: The American Craft Collection
November 3, 2007 - October 26, 2008Colonial Philadelphia Porcelain: The Art of Bonnin and Morris
March 8, 2008 - June 1, 2008Celebrating American Craft: 30 Years of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show
September 19, 2006 - October 21, 2007Room for Revolution: George Washington and His Philadelphia Friends
March 16, 2007 - August 30, 2007Forging an American Identity: The Art of William Ranney
June 26, 2007 - August 19, 2007Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic
January 5, 2007 - March 4, 2007Contemporary Crafts from the Collection
March 19, 2005 - August 20, 2006Andrew Wyeth and the American Landscape Tradition
May 27, 2006 - July 16, 2006Andrew Wyeth: Memory and Magic
March 29, 2006 - July 16, 2006Beauford Delaney: From New York to Paris
November 13, 2005 - January 29, 2006The Academy Goes Modern
April 30, 2005 - October 16, 2005Stuart Davis and American Abstraction: A Masterpiece in Focus
January 15, 2005 - April 17, 2005The Poetry of Clay: The Art of Toshiko Takaezu
August 7, 2004 - March 6, 2005Small Worlds: Portrait Miniatures from the Jeannette B. Stern Whitebook Collection
May 1, 2004 - July 11, 2004American Marine Paintings
February 15, 2004 - May 31, 2004Elegant Innovations: American Rookwood Pottery, 1880–1960: The Gerald and Virginia Gordon Collection
November 15, 2003 - March 21, 2004Crafting a Legacy: Contemporary American Crafts in the Philadelphia Museum of Art
September 26, 2002 - August 10, 2003Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas
February 12, 2003 - May 11, 2003Dox Thrash: An African American Master Printmaker Rediscovered
October 27, 2001 - February 24, 2002Thomas Eakins: American Realist
October 4, 2001 - January 6, 2002Alice Neel
February 18, 2001 - April 15, 2001Contemporary American Crafts
September 11, 1998 - March 19, 2000The Kingdoms of Edward Hicks
October 10, 1999 - January 2, 2000Worldly Goods: The Arts of Early Pennsylvania, 1680-1758
October 10, 1999 - January 2, 2000Self-Taught Artists of the 20th Century: An American Anthology
March 10, 1998 - May 17, 1998Rudolf Staffel: Searching for Light; Ceramics, 1936-1996
May 3, 1997 - August 3, 1997Mezzotints by John Sartain: Philadelphia Printmaker, 1808-1897
January 18, 1997 - April 20, 1997The Cadwalader Family: Art and Style in Early Philadelphia
November 3, 1996 - February 2, 1997The Peale Family: Creation of an American Legacy, 1770-1870
November 3, 1996 - January 7, 1997Works on Paper from the Collection of H. Richard Dietrich, Jr. and The Dietrich American Foundation
November 25, 1995 - February 12, 1996Community Fabric: African American Quilts and Folk Art
February 13, 1994 - April 10, 1994African American Folk Art
May 20, 1992 - August 16, 1992American Ceramics
February 29, 1992 - June 21, 1992Contemporary Crafts Reinstallation
Spring 1992Henry Ossawa Tanner
January 20, 1991 - April 14, 1991The Fairmount Waterworks, 1812-1911
July 23, 1988 - September 25, 1988Federal Philadelphia, 1785-1825: The Athens of the Western World
July 5, 1987 - September 20, 1987Modern Jewelry, 1964-1984: The Helen Williams Drutt Collection
November 1, 1986 - February 1, 1987Diego Rivera: A Retrospective and Diego Rivera and His Mexico: Through the Camera's Eye
June 1, 1986 - August 10, 1986Benjamin West in Pennsylvania Collections
March 1, 1986 - April 13, 1986Henry Tanner
January 23, 1984 - July 15, 1984100 Years of Acquisitions
May 7, 1983 - July 3, 1983The Pennsylvania Germans: A Celebration of their Arts, 1683-1850
October 17, 1982 - January 9, 1983Thomas Eakins: Artist of Philadelphia
May 29, 1982 - August 1, 1982American Presidential China
September 5, 1981 - January 31, 1982Copley from Boston
April 19, 1980 - June 15, 1980The University of Pennsylvania: Collector and Patron of Art, 1779-1979
August 12, 1979 - September 16, 1979Thomas Eakins Memorabilia
October 18, 1978 - December 20, 1978American Presidential China
April 1, 1977 - May 29, 1977Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art
April 11, 1976 - October 10, 1976Seahorses by Sam Gilliam
April 26, 1975 - May 25, 1975Recent Acquisitions: American Art
January 29, 1974 - April 30, 1974
