Sunday, June 28, 2026 (continued)
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From Dilworth Park, we walked a couple blocks up
Broad Street to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts/
PAFA and its Historic Landmark Building (1871-1876, by
Frank Furness and George W Hewitt in Victorian Gothic
Revival style) with floral motifs and a Gothic window |
PAFA was established in 1805 by painter and scientist Charles Willson Peale, sculptor William Rush, and other artists and business leaders, making it the first art museum and school of fine arts in America.
For America's 250th Anniversary, the exhibition A Nation of Artists brings together three remarkable collections: the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Middleton Family Collection. The presentation celebrates 250 years of American creativity.
We started in the Historic Landmark Building Alumni Gallery:
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Unraveling (2017, by Sonya Clark),
or is it actually getting stronger? |
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| Young America (1950, by Andrew Wyeth) |
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Declaration of Independence (2020,
by Vanessa German) |
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| The Service Flag (1918, by Childe Hassam) (KSS) |
Alumni Gallery Elevator Lobby:
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PAFA Cartoon labeled: At the day appointed for the
acception of paintings, a few works of art arrived |
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| Mermaid Fountain (1898, by Daniel Carl Müller) (KSS) |
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PAFA Grand Staircase (the interior was also designed by
Frank Furness and George W Hewitt, with input from a
young Louis Sullivan who worked in their office) (KSS) |
Historic Landmark Building Morris Gallery:
We've Only Just Begun: Kati Gegenheimer:
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| We've Only Just Begun (2023-2026) |
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| The Edge of the Earth Ballet (2023) (KSS) |
Upstairs to Gallery 4:
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| Body Language Academy (2020, by Sheida Soleimani) |
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Nicodemus (1899, by Henry Ossawa Tanner,
a PAFA artist who was Black) |
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| Grand Staircase from the second floor |
Gallery 5:
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Christ Rejected (1814, by Benjamin West), a monumental
canvas by the instructor of Charles Willson Peale
(in London), and the first honorary academician of PAFA |
Salon Gallery 6:
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George Washington at Princeton (1779,
by Charles Willson Peale) |
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Investigation of Poverty at the Russell Sage Foundation
(1933, by Alice Neel, a PAFA artist) |
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Horace Pippin (1943, by Julius Thiengen Bloch,
PAFA artist) who was a self-taught
artist from West Chester, PA |
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Trio at Cogslea: Elizabeth Shippen Green, Henrietta
Cozzens, and Jessie Wilcox Smith (Unfinished)
(1906-1911, by Violet Oakley, PAFA artist) |
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Still Life #2 (1821, by James Peale, Sr, the younger
brother of Charles Willson Peale and another
patriarch of the Peale dynasty of artists) |
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Strawberries and Cherries (1813-1830, by
Margaretta Angelica Peale, daughter of James Peale, Sr) |
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| Eating Etiquette (1982, by Ray Yoshida) (KSS) |
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| Mine Disaster (1933-1937, by Philip Evergood) |
Gallery 7:
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| Daniel Reading (2019, by Doron Langberg, PAFA artist) (KSS) |
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Dream Series #5: The Library (1967,
by Jacob Lawrence) |
Gallery 8:
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| Apartment Houses (1923, by Edward Hopper) |
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Box of Tricks (1919, by Charles Demuth,
PAFA artist from Lancaster, PA) |
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The Bicentennial Tapestries: La Poire, Le Fromage, et
Le Serpent/The Pear, the Cheese, the Serpent)
(1975, by Alexander Calder) |
Gallery 9:
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She Gives (Quiet Strength VII) (2020, by
Dyani White Hawk) fuses Abstract Expressionism
with Lakȟóta visual traditions |
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She Gives (Quiet Strength VII) detail that
better shows the rhythms of quillwork |
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The Music Hall (1910, by Stuart Davis, from
the Middleton Family Collection) |
Gallery 10:
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| Interior columns |
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Two Hummingbirds, Two Types of Orchids, and
a Palm Tree (1890-1904, by Martin Johnson
Heade, from the Middleton Family Collection) |
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Coast Scene, Mount Desert (1852, by Frederic
Edwin Church, from the Middleton Family Collection) |
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| Fox Hunt (1893, by Winslow Homer) |
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| The End (2016, by Minerva Cuevas) |
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| North River (1908, by George Bellows) |
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Hill Top at High Noon (1925, by
Charles Burchfield) |
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| Post Rally (1957, by Robert Gwathmey, PAFA artist) |
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| Canisters (1997, by Kara Walker) |
Gallery 11:
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The Artist and His Museum (1822, by
Charles Willson Peale, PAFA artist) is a
self-portrait depicting his museum of
natural history, which at the time was located
in the long gallery of Independence Hall |
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Cabbage Patch, the Gardens at Belfield, PA
(1815-1816, by Charles Willson Peale) is an
unusual subject for the painter of portraits |
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Saint Cornelius and the Angel
(1907, by Tiffany Studios) |
Gallery 12:
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| Red Canna (1923, by Georgia O'Keeffe) |
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| Aaron (1941, by Thomas Hart Benton) |
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Penn's Treaty with the Indians (1771-1772,
by Benjamin West) |
Gallery 13:
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Cowboys and Indians (Indian Head Nickel)
(1986, by Andy Warhol) |
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| The Oracles' Silence (2019, by María Berrío) |
Gallery 1 (opposite Gallery 5):
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Death on the Pale Horse (1817, by Benjamin West) is
another monumental work by the artist who was
born in Springfield (now Swarthmore), PA |
Gallery 2:
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| Hailing the Ferry (1888, by Daniel Ridgway Knight, PAFA artist) |
Washington Foyer/Gallery 3:
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Portrait of Dr Samuel D Gross (The
Gross Clinic) (1875, by Thomas Eakins,
PAFA artist and native Philadelphian) |
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George Washington (The Lansdowne
Portrait) (1796, by Gilbert Stuart) |
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Din Avec La Main Dans le Miroir/
Din by Hand in the Mirror (2008,
by Mickalene Thomas) |
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Paint Torch (2011, by Claes Oldenburg)
is located in Lenfest Plaza (2011, by
David Rubin at OLIN) which sits between
the two buildings of PAFA |
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Lenfest Plaza with a curving series of
benches meant to evoke a brushstroke |
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We did not visit the second PAFA building,
the Samuel MV Hamilton Building (1916, by
Charles Oelschlager for Gomery-Schwartz
Autocar Company as a new auto showroom,
gas station, and storage facility, acquired
by PAFA in 2002 to expand gallery space) |
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