Below is a list of past and current exhibitions relating to Prints, Drawings & Photographs. For all current and upcoming exhibitions, click here.
Past and Current Exhibitions
"Great and Mighty Things": Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection
March 3, 2013 - June 9, 2013Treasures of the Alfred Stieglitz Center: Photographs from the Permanent Collection
December 22, 2012 - April 7, 2013Full Spectrum: Prints from the Brandywine Workshop
September 7, 2012 - November 25, 2012Prom: Photographs by Mary Ellen Mark
July 1, 2012 - October 28, 2012Ralph Eugene Meatyard: Dolls and Masks
May 19, 2012 - August 5, 2012Rockwell Kent—Voyager: An Artist’s Journey in Prints, Drawings, and Illustrated Books
May 19, 2012 - July 29, 201235mm: Photographs from the Collection
February 11, 2012 - June 3, 2012Zoe Strauss: Ten Years
January 14, 2012 - April 22, 2012Here and Now: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs by Ten Philadelphia Artists
September 10, 2011 - December 4, 2011Unsettled: Photography and Politics in Contemporary Art
April 9, 2011 - September 19, 2011Health for Sale: Posters from the William H. Helfand Collection
April 1, 2011 - July 31, 2011Mark Cohen: Strange Evidence
October 23, 2010 - March 13, 2011Virtues and Vices: Moralizing Prints in the Low Countries, 1550–1600
December 11, 2010 - February 27, 2011Picturing the West: Yokohama Prints 1859–1870s
August 28, 2010 - November 14, 2010The Women’s Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Photography Portfolio 2010
September 4, 2010 - September 19, 2010Visions of Venice: Eighteenth-Century Prints from the Collection
April 24, 2010 - July 18, 2010Water Work
May 15, 2010 - July 18, 2010The Platinum Process: Photographs from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century
February 27, 2010 - May 23, 2010PHILAGRAFIKA 2010: The Graphic Unconscious―Works by Oscar Muñoz and Tabaimo
January 29, 2010 - April 11, 2010Common Ground: Eight Philadelphia Photographers in the 1960s and 1970s
September 12, 2009 - February 3, 2010Frederick Sommer Photographs
October 3, 2009 - January 3, 2010Skyscrapers: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs of the Early Twentieth Century
June 6, 2009 - November 12, 2009Adventures in Modern Art: The Charles K. Williams II Collection
July 12, 2009 - September 13, 2009Spectacle: Photographs from the Collection
June 18, 2009 - September 7, 2009Daidō Moriyama: Tokyo Photographs
February 28, 2009 - August 23, 2009Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer and Titian
January 31, 2009 - April 26, 2009Photo Mandalas: Bill Armstrong and Milan Fano Blatný
September 6, 2008 - February 1, 2009James Castle: A Retrospective
October 14, 2008 - January 4, 2009Curious and Commonplace: European Popular Prints of the 1800s
May 31, 2008 - August 24, 2008Transcending the Literal: Photographs by Ansel Adams from the Collection
March 1, 2008 - August 17, 2008Emerging to Established: 25 Years of the Center for Emerging Visual Arts
April 5, 2008 - July 6, 2008The Art of Lee Miller
January 26, 2008 - April 27, 2008Alfred Stieglitz and the Philadelphia Museum of Art
September 15, 2007 - February 17, 2008Particulars of Place: Photo Portfolios from the Collection
April 21, 2007 - December 9, 2007William H. Johnson's World on Paper
May 19, 2007 - August 12, 2007Contemporary Art on Paper
February 9, 2007 - April 22, 2007Modern People: A Tribute to Arnold Newman
September 23, 2006 - March 4, 2007Mexico and Modern Printmaking: A Revolution in the Graphic Arts, 1920–1950
October 21, 2006 - January 14, 2007Dreaming in Black and White: Photography at the Julien Levy Gallery
June 17, 2006 - September 17, 2006Summer Vacation: Photographs from the Collection
May 13, 2006 - September 10, 2006Recent Acquisitions: Prints and Drawings from Dürer to Doig
March 11, 2006 - May 21, 2006The Secret Life of Buildings: Photographs by Clarence John Laughlin
December 10, 2005 - April 30, 2006A Natural Attraction: Dutch and Flemish Landscape Prints from Bruegel to Rembrandt
December 17, 2005 - February 12, 2006Mavericks of Color: Photographs from the Collection
July 30, 2005 - December 4, 2005Looking at Atget
September 10, 2005 - November 27, 2005Poussin to Cézanne: French Drawings from the Prat Collection
July 16, 2005 - September 25, 2005At the Window: Etchings by Edward Hopper
April 9, 2005 - July 31, 2005Quack, Quack, Quack: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera & Books
March 19, 2005 - July 17, 2005The Silver Garden
February 19, 2005 - July 17, 2005Italian Master Drawings: 1540 to the Present
October 30, 2004 - February 21, 2005Lewis and Clark Revisited: A Trail in Modern Day, Photographs by Greg Mac Gregor
December 11, 2004 - February 6, 2005Underfoot: Photographs by Irving Penn
July 10, 2004 - November 28, 2004Glorious Harvest: Photographs from the Michael E. Hoffman Tribute Collection
June 12, 2004 - October 3, 2004Rembrandt as Printmaker
March 8, 2004 - July 1, 2004The Faceless Figure: Photographs from the Collection
December 20, 2003 - June 27, 2004To Instruct and Delight: Prints and Illustrated Books in Eighteenth-Century France
February 21, 2004 - May 16, 2004Popular, Pop & Post-Pop: Color Screenprints 1930s to Now
October 11, 2003 - January 25, 2004Eye on Mexico: Photographs from the Collection
July 26, 2003 - December 7, 2003Louis Faurer: A Photographic Retrospective
June 14, 2003 - September 7, 2003Street Smarts: Photographs by William Klein
February 22, 2003 - July 13, 2003The Art of the Burin: Engraving in Northern Europe in the Age of Dürer
March 22, 2003 - May 25, 2003Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, Chicago, 1937–1971
December 7, 2002 - March 2, 2003Odyssey of Light: Photographs from the Collection
August 24, 2002 - February 9, 2003The Etching Club of London: A Taste for Painters' Etchings
August 31, 2002 - February 9, 2003Munakata Shiko: Japanese Master of the Modern Print
July 27, 2002 - November 10, 2002Indivisible: Stories of American Community
August 10, 2002 - October 6, 2002Ellsworth Kelly: Series of Ten Lithographs
May 25, 2002 - August 25, 2002Michael Hoffman: A Tribute in Pictures
April 27, 2002 - August 11, 2002Out of the Box: 20th-Century Print Portfolios
March 30, 2002 - June 23, 2002The Plot Thickens: Narrative in British Printmaking, 1700–1900
March 16, 2002 - June 23, 2002Hot off the Press: American Publishers' Posters of the 1890s
January 25, 2002 - May 19, 2002From Sacred Groves to Country Roads: Pastoral Themes in European and American Drawings, 1730–1980
September 15, 2001 - January 20, 2002The Discerning Eye of Julien Levy: Selections from a New Acquisition
September 8, 2001 - December 2, 2001Elemental Landscapes: Photographs by Harry Callahan
June 23, 2001 - September 30, 2001Jacques Villon, Poet of Precision: A New Acquisition in Context
June 23, 2001 - September 30, 2001The World of Peggy Bacon
April 28, 2001 - September 2, 2001Leaves of Gold: Treasures of Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections
March 10, 2001 - May 13, 2001The City Beautiful: Photogravures by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1909–10
January 20, 2001 - April 22, 2001Flights of Fancy: Six Centuries of Ornament and Pattern on Paper
January 27, 2001 - April 8, 2001Voyage of Discovery: The Landscape Photographs of Ray K. Metzker
November 18, 2000 - February 11, 2001Portrait Drawings from the Collection
September 16, 2000 - January 7, 2001The Nightingale's Song: Nurses and Nursing in the Ars Medica Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 26, 2000 - October 29, 2000When Reason Dreams: Drawings Inspired by the Visionary, the Fantastic, and the Unreal
August 26, 2000 - October 29, 2000For Your Eyes Only—Looking Closely at Works of Art on Paper
May 27, 2000 - September 10, 2000Work from the Collection by Philadelphia-Area Photographers
April 15, 2000 - August 20, 2000Mary Ellen Mark: Photographs
May 13, 2000 - August 6, 2000New Acquisitions: Robert Motherwell's A la Pintura and In Plato's Cave
February 19, 2000 - May 21, 2000An Exuberant Bounty: Prints and Drawings by African Americans
February 5, 2000 - April 16, 2000Revivals, Reveries, and Reconstructions: Images of Antiquity in Old Master Prints
February 5, 2000 - April 16, 2000Recent Acquisitions: Prints and Drawings from the 1960s to the Present
November 26, 1999 - April 2, 2000Thinking on Copper: Plates and Proofs by John Marin
October 16, 1999 - February 13, 2000Museum Studies 5: Gabriel Orozco
October 27, 1999 - December 12, 1999Passages: Photographs from the Collection
June 5, 1999 - November 14, 1999A Grove of Trees
May 29, 1999 - October 10, 1999American Illustrations in the Time of Maxfield Parrish: From the Museum's Collection
June 12, 1999 - September 25, 1999Raymond Pettibon
April 30, 1999 - July 25, 1999Crowning Achievements: Dentistry in the Ars Medica Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
March 28, 1999 - May 30, 1999Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz
February 7, 1999 - May 23, 1999Mad for Modernism: Earl Horter and His Collection
March 7, 1999 - May 16, 1999Jasper Johns: Process and Printmaking
January 23, 1999 - April 4, 1999Delacroix and the Romantic Image
September 26, 1998 - January 31, 1999Joseph Cornell / Marcel Duchamp…in resonance
October 8, 1998 - January 3, 1999John B. Flannagan: On Paper and In Stone
May 23, 1998 - September 20, 1998Prized Impressions: Gifts from the Print Center of Philadelphia
July 12, 1997 - September 14, 1998Twenty Philadelphia Artists: Celebrating Fleisher Challenge at Twenty
July 18, 1998 - September 13, 1998Drawing on Copper: Etching in Italy before 1700
April 19, 1998 - August 16, 1998Images of the Spirit: Photographs by Graciela Iturbide
June 14, 1998 - August 9, 1998Heroes & Ghosts: Japanese Prints by Kuniyoshi (1797–1861)
April 25, 1998 - June 28, 1998Photographs from the Collection of Dorothy Norman
January 18, 1998 - May 10, 1998Paris in the 1890s: Painters' Prints in the Age of Bonnard, Vuillard, and Toulouse-Lautrec
January 24, 1998 - April 5, 1998Interiors: Drawings and Watercolors, 1800–1950
September 27, 1997 - January 11, 1998Robert Capa: Photographs
October 4, 1997 - January 4, 1998Paul Klee: Works from the Bauhaus Years, 1921-1931
June 19, 1997 - September 15, 1997Prized Impressions: Gifts from the Print Center of Philadelphia
July 12, 1997 - September 14, 1997India: A Celebration of Independence, 1947-1997
July 6, 1997 - August 31, 1997The Ingenious Machine of Nature: Four Centuries of Art and Anatomy
April 19, 1997 - June 15, 1997Photographs by Harold Edgerton: Recent Acquisitions
February 1, 1997 - May 25, 1997"In the Manner of . . .": Imitation, Emulation, and Forgery in Old Master Printmaking
December 21, 1996 - March 16, 1997Susan Barron: The Labyrinth of Time
December 14, 1996 - March 2, 1997Harry Callahan
September 14, 1996 - November 24, 1996Correspondences with Rodin: Photographs by Ernestine Ruben
March 30, 1996 - October 2, 1996Paul Cézanne: The Sketchbooks
May 30, 1996 - September 1, 1996Metamorphoses: Photography in the Electronic Age
June 22, 1996 - August 18, 1996American Art in the Machine Age, 1913-1940: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs from the Collection
May 5, 1996 - August 11, 1996New Art on Paper 2: The Hunt Manufacturing Co. Collection
March 17, 1996 - May 27, 1996Wall Flowers: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs from the Permanent Collection
February 15, 1996 - April 21, 1996Mediterranean: Photographs by Mimmo Jodice
December 16, 1995 - February 18, 1996Tina Modotti: Photographs
September 16, 1995 - November 26, 1995Potions, Pills, and Purges: The Art of Pharmacy
June 3, 1995 - October 29, 1995The House of Art: Drawings and Prints from the Artist Community at Gugging
April 1, 1995 - August 13, 1995Between War and Utopia: Prints and Drawings of the German Avant-Garde, 1905-1933
March 18, 1995 - July 23, 1995Dorothea Lange: American Photography
December 24, 1994 - February 19, 1995Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s-1940s by African American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams
October 9, 1994 - December 4, 1994Highlights of the Alfred Stieglitz Center Collection of Photographs
May 7, 1994 - October 9, 1994Contemporary Art on Paper
May 4, 1994 - September 25, 1994Crucible of Good Intentions: The Eastern State Penitentiary at Fairmount
July 16, 1994 - September 11, 1994Drawing Albums & Print Portfolios: Early Collectors in Philadelphia
April 24, 1994 - June 19, 1994Images of Discord: A Graphic Interpretation of the Opening Decades of the Eighty Years´ War
February 5, 1994 - April 10, 1994"A Severe Selection": Modern Art on Paper from the A. E. Gallatin Collection
January 29, 1994 - March 27, 1994Brandywine Workshop Prints: Recent Acquisitions
February 1, 1994 - March 6, 1994In Observance of World AIDS Day and Day Without Art
November 29, 1993 - January 12, 1994Visions of Antiquity: Neoclassical Figure Drawings
October 30, 1993 - January 2, 1994Joy Before the Object: The Photographs of Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897-1966)
July 24, 1993 - September 26, 1993Drawing Sounds: An Installation by William Anastasi in Honor of John Cage
August 28, 1993 - September 9, 1993Workers, An Archaeology of the Industrial Age: Photographs of Sebastião Salgado
April 18, 1993 - July 11, 1993From Court to Academy: Charles-Nicholas Cochin, Royal Draughtsman and Printmaker
March 20, 1993 - June 27, 1993Gertrude Käsebier, Photographer
March 27, 1993 - May 30, 1993Beatrice Wood at 100
February 13, 1993 - May 16, 1993Beauty and Violence: Woodblock Prints by Yoshitoshi, 1839-1892
December 19, 1992 - February 14, 1993Leonardo da Vinci: The Anatomy of Man: Drawings from the Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
September 19, 1992 - November 29, 1992The Modern Still Life: Drawings, Watercolors, and Collages from the Collection
June 20, 1992 - September 6, 1992Women's Work: American Printmakers in the 1930s
July 18, 1992 - August 23, 1992Pertaining to Philadelphia: Contemporary Acquisitions from the Julius Bloch Memorial Fund
May 16, 1992 - August 16, 1992Photographs by Nick Waplington: The "Living Room" and "Circles of Civilization" Series
April 25, 1992 - June 28, 1992Art and Nature: German Printmaking, 1750-1850
January 4, 1992 - March 29, 1992Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture
October 20, 1991 - January 5, 1992The Picture of Health: Images of Medicine and Pharmacy from the William H. Helfand Collection
September 21, 1991 - December 1, 1991Picasso: The Vollard Suite
June 8, 1991 - August 25, 1991William Christenberry: Photographs
July 20, 1991 - August 25, 1991Recent Acquisitions: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
May 18, 1991 - August 11, 1991Master Drawings from Leipzig
April 20, 1991 - June 23, 1991Form and Figure: Fourteen Philadelphia Printmakers, 1910-1950
March 23, 1991 - May 19, 1991Pop Art Prints from the Collection
February 16, 1991 - May 12, 1991Emmet Gowin: Photographs
December 8, 1990 - February 24, 1991Drawings by Auguste Rodin
November 10, 1990 - February 17, 1991Francesco Clemente: Three Worlds
October 21, 1990 - December 23, 1990Images of Benjamin Franklin
May 5, 1990 - September 16, 1990Legacy in Light: Photographic Treasures from Philadelphia Area Public Collections
May 26, 1990 - August 12, 1990Building the City Beautiful: The Benjamin Franklin Parkway and the Philadelphia Museum of Art
September 9, 1989 - November 26, 1989The Sadelers: Engravers from the Golden Age of Antwerp and Prague
April 15, 1989 - July 9, 1989Robert Adam and Kedleston: The Making of a Neo-Classical Masterpiece
April 22, 1989 - June 2, 1989Twenty-Five Years of Gifts from the Friends of the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
March 18, 1989 - May 21, 1989Robert Adams: To Make It Home: Photographs of the American West, 1965-1986
February 19, 1989 - April 16, 1989A Visual Testimony: Judaica from the Vatican Library
January 29, 1989 - April 2, 1989Pietro Testa, 1612-1650: Prints and Drawings
November 5, 1988 - January 1, 1989New Art on Paper: The Hunt Manufacturing Co. Collection
April 16, 1988 - July 3, 1988Recent Acquisitions II: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs before 1900
January 30, 1988 - March 27, 1988Paul Klee in Philadelphia Collections
October 3, 1987 - January 3, 1988Richard Misrach: The American Desert
October 24, 1987 - January 3, 1988The Captured Imagination: Drawings by Joan Miró from The Fundacio Joan Miró, Barcelona
October 3, 1987 - November 29, 1987Pertaining to Philadelphia VIII: "Rockin" by Maurie Kerrigan
August 8, 1987 - October 4, 1987Twelve Photographers Look at US
April 11, 1987 - July 5, 1987Hendrik Goltzius (1558-1617): Virtuoso Printmaker
January 10, 1987 - March 22, 1987Diane Arbus: Magazine Work, 1960-1971
December 6, 1986 - January 18, 1987Martha Graham: Sixty Years in Photographs
October 11, 1986 - November 30, 1986Black Sun: The Eyes of Four
August 9, 1986 - October 26, 1986Richard Hamilton: Image and Process
April 19, 1986 - June 22, 1986From Mantegna to Goya: Selections from the Muriel and Philip Berman Gift of European Old Master Prints
February 1, 1986 - March 29, 1986A Tribute to J. S. Bach (1685-1750)
November 24, 1985 - January 26, 1986Unknown Territory: Photographs by Ray K. Metzker, 1957-1983
October 19, 1985 - January 5, 1986W. Eugene Smith: "Let Truth Be the Prejudice"
October 19, 1985 - January 5, 1986Bill Brandt: Behind the Camera, 1928-1983
June 15, 1985 - September 22, 1985All American: Photographs by Burk Uzzle
November 17, 1984 - May 19, 1985Ansel Adams
September 22, 1984 - April 28, 1985Edgar Degas: The Painter as Printmaker
February 17, 1985 - April 14, 1985Old Master Drawings, 1550-1850
September 15, 1984 - January 6, 1985The Golden Age of British Photography, 1839-1900
October 27, 1984 - January 6, 1985Beyond a Portrait: Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz and Dorothy Norman
June 23, 1984 - October 28, 1984John Marin: Prints and Watercolors from the Collection
June 23, 1984 - August 26, 1984Particulars: Selections from the Miller-Plummer Collection of Photography
October 1, 1983 - November 27, 1983Pertaining to Philadelphia III: Motion and Sequence
October 1, 1983 - October 30, 1983Pennsylvania Modern: Charles Demuth of Lancaster
July 16, 1983 - September 11, 1983Impressions of the Front: Woodcuts of the Sino-Japanese War, 1894-1895
April 23, 1983 - June 26, 1983Tibet: The Sacred Realm, Photographs 1880-1950
March 20, 1983 - May 22, 1983Minor White, Photographs
February 5, 1983 - April 3, 1983Dance in Pennsylvania: The Nation's First Steps
December 11, 1982 - February 20, 1983American Graphics, 1860-1940: Selected from the Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
November 20, 1982 - January 16, 1983From the Collections: Twentieth-Century Artists' Books
September 11, 1982 - October 31, 1982John Cage: A Portrait Series by Robert Mahon
September 11, 1982 - October 31, 1982Frederick H. Evans: "The Desired Haven"
May 15, 1982 - July 18, 1982Danny Lyon: Pictures from the New World
February 27, 1982 - May 2, 1982American Frontiers: The Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1867-1874
October 3, 1981 - January 3, 1982Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer
August 1, 1981 - October 4, 1981Master Drawings by Picasso
July 11, 1981 - August 23, 1981The New West: Photographs by Robert Adams
April 25, 1981 - July 12, 1981Drawings from van Gogh to Matisse
February 21, 1981 - May 10, 1981Spirit of an American Place: Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz
November 22, 1980 - March 29, 1981A Scholar Collects: Selections from the Anthony Morris Clark Bequest
October 2, 1980 - January 4, 1981Footprints of the Buddha: Japanese Buddhist Prints from American and Japanese Collections
August 23, 1980 - October 26, 1980The New Vision: Forty Years of Photography at The Institute of Design
July 12, 1980 - October 26, 1980Crosscurrents: French and Italian Neoclassical Drawings and Prints from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum
July 19, 1980 - August 27, 1980Ars Medica: Selected Works and New Acquisitions
June 25, 1980 - August 17, 1980Carl Zigrosser: The Curator as Collector
April 12, 1980 - July 6, 1980August Sander: Photographs of an Epoch
March 1, 1980 - May 25, 1980Brancusi as Photographer
March 22, 1980 - May 18, 1980On the Move: The Art of Transportation
December 15, 1979 - March 23, 1980Ansel Adams: 100 Photographs
November 17, 1979 - March 2, 1980Fashion Plate: Modes and Manners
September 1, 1979 - December 2, 1979Contemporary Drawings: Philadelphia II
March 24, 1979 - May 20, 1979A Graphic Side of the Second Empire
September 16, 1978 - November 19, 1978The Face of China As Seen by Photographers & Travelers 1860-1912
April 15, 1978 - June 25, 1978Terminal Iron Works: Photographs of David Smith by Dan Budnik, 1962-1963
February 15, 1976 - January 15, 1978American Prints of the 20th Century
November 5, 1977 - January 9, 1978Recent Acquisitions: Made in Philadelphia
March 18, 1977 - August 30, 1977Ars Medica
October 22, 1976 - January 2, 1977Eagles, Flags, and Heroes: Signs and Symbols of Patriotic Pride
July 19, 1976 - October 4, 1976Old Master Drawings: Museum and Academy Collections
February 27, 1976 - July 6, 1976American Watercolors and Drawings from the Museum Collection
October 4, 1974 - December 10, 1974A Decade of Gifts
May 12, 1974 - June 16, 1974Clarence John Laughlin: The Personal Eye
November 8, 1973 - January 6, 1974
