Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture in the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Hardcover and softcover
159 pages, 11 x 10 in.
136 color + 11 b/w illus.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2000
Hardcover ISBN 9780876331330
Softcover ISBN 9780876331323

Featuring pivotal works of twentieth-century painting and sculpture, this book handsomely illustrates a selection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s outstanding modern and contemporary art collection, accompanied by lively, descriptive notes.

The museum’s emphasis on early modern art was heralded by the first acquisitions of works by Constantin Brancusi and Pablo Picasso in the early 1930s. At the core of the holdings of modern art are the A. E. Gallatin and the Louise and Walter Arensberg collections. Together, they establish this institution as one of the world’s pre-eminent museums in which to see modern art—home to the most important collection of Marcel Duchamp’s work and unparalleled for its installation of sculpture by Brancusi.

Ann Temkin is the Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Susan Rosenberg is assistant curator of modern and contemporary art, Michael Taylor is curator of modern and contemporary art, all at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.