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
Transcending 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, 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, 1998








