Run up the cascading steps, like Philadelphia’s own Rocky Balboa, and you will come face-to-face with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, architecturally designed to resemble the temples in Greece. For general information, call 21.If First Friday isn’t your style, check out First Sundays at the Philadelphia Museum of Art! On the first Sunday of each month, admission is pay what you wish all day long. Social additional information, contact the Communications Department of the Philadelphia Museum of Art by phone at 21, by fax at 21, or by e-mail at The Museum is located on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 26th Street. We are committed to inviting visitors to see the world-and themselves-anew through the beauty and expressive power of the arts. We connect people with the arts in rich and varied ways, making the experience of the Museum surprising, lively, and always memorable.
We bring the arts to life, inspiring visitors-through scholarly study and creative play-to discover the spirit of imagination that lies in everyone. The Philadelphia Museum of Art is Philadelphia’s art museum. Senior Curator of American Art and Director of the Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as well as other notable authors. Curator of American Decorative Arts, and Kathleen A. Richard Dietrich III, president of the Dietrich American Foundation, and Deborah M. The exhibition is accompanied by a comprehensive publication on the Dietrich collection titled In Pursuit of History, A Lifetime Collecting Colonial American Art and Artifacts, distributed by the Yale University Press for the Dietrich American Foundation in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Widener Director and Chief Executive Officer, Philadelphia Museum of Art.Īmong the 55 objects on view in A Collector’s Vision are a delicate watercolor miniature of George Washington painted by James Peale and enshrined in a small gold case with a lock of Washington’s hair in the back a signed Daniel Goddard bureau table from Newport a quilt with squares depicting the life of President James Buchanan Pennsylvania German frakturs and furniture Chinese Export porcelain and prints and watercolors.Ī centerpiece is the re-creation of part of the Dietrich family’s living room in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, which includes a Paul Revere teapot, a John Singleton Copley portrait of John Bee Holmes and a bombe desk attributed to Nathaniel Gould. “This partnership has certainly supported our museum- but, more importantly, we hope it has helped foster an appreciation for American art and its history even more widely,” says Timothy Rub, the George D. Long-term loans to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, including many objects in the exhibition, began in 1966 and continue to this day. A Collector’s Vision: Highlights from the Dietrich American Foundation tells the story of a collector whose foundation has long shared Americana and rare books and manuscripts through an extensive loan program to institutions around the county. The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present a selection of rare and noteworthy examples of American fine and decorative arts drawn from the collection of the late H.
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