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.

British Works on Paper

Galleries 121-123

These installations showcase the Museum’s holdings of British watercolors and drawings from the 18th through mid-20th centuries, including works by Joseph Wright of Derby, John Ruskin, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Barbara Hepworth. Two of the galleries are dedicated to prints and drawings by the 19th-century artist-poet William Blake.

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