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
Romancing 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
