Philadelphia Museum of Art - On View : In the Galleries : Prints, Drawings, & Photographs

Prints, drawings, and photographs comprise the largest group of objects in the Museum’s collections, so these galleries may feature any number of more than 150,000 works of art on paper dating from the 15th century to the present.

Highlights from the Collections

Here you might find old master prints, modern drawings, or Surrealist photography

Exhibitions may draw from European old master prints, American prints from the 1930s and 1940s, or a selection of works from Latin America and Japan. Italian drawings, modern American and European watercolors, collages, and gouaches, and the manuscripts, boxes, and ephemera of Marcel Duchamp could also be featured.

The Museum's photography galleries are host to ever-changing installations, with with works of art by Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, and other major American and European figures playing a significant role.

Contemporary Works on Paper from the Collection

Galleries 121-123, first floor

The prints and drawings presented in these galleries suggest various ways that contemporary artists have explored aspects of the natural world, from the minute to the infinite. Works by Louise Bourgeois, Vija Celmins, Richard Deacon, Franz Gertsch, Mei-Ling Hom, Ed Ruscha, Philip Taaffe, and Yukinori Yanagi are featured.

Please note, because of sensitivity to light and other conservation concerns, the objects on view in the Prints, Drawings, & Photographs galleries rotate frequently.