Previous Exhibitions

Spring 2020

African Brilliance: A Diplomat’s Sixty Years of Collecting

February 8th - August 9th, 2020

Drawing on a Legacy: Highlights from the John Driscoll American Drawings Collection

January 21st - August 31st, 2020

Grounded: Environments in Flux

January 21st - August 31st, 2020

Fall 2019

Bauhaus Transfers: Albers / Rauschenberg

September 3rd - December 15th, 2019

The Web of Life: John Biggers and the Power of Pedagogy

August 20th - December 15th, 2019

Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman

August 24th - December 8th, 2019

Fantasy and Reality: The World According to Félix Buhot

September 29th - December 15th, 2019

Summer 2019

Under the Mexican Sky: A Revolution in Modern Photography

June 1st - July 28th, 2019

Myth Meets Modernism: The Manuel Álvarez Bravo Portfolio

June 11th - August 4th, 2019

George Miller and American Lithography

June 18th - September 15th, 2019

Spring 2019

Subjective Spaces: Drawings and Collages by Robert Reed

January 5th - May 19th, 2019

Amazing Stories: Recent Acquisitions

January 12th - May 26th, 2019

From the Rooftops: John Sloan and the Art of a New Urban Space

February 3rd - May 12th, 2019

Fall 2018

Instinctive Gestures: Recent Gifts from The Fishman-MacElderry Collection

August 28th - December 16th, 2018

Object Lessons: American Still-Life Painting in the Nineteenth Century

September 4th - December 16th, 2018

A Small Radius of Light: G. Daniel Massad, A Retrospective

September 25th - December 9th, 2018

Summer 2018

Framing the City: Photographs from the Permanent Collection

June 5th - August 19th, 2018

When the Water Rises: Recent Paintings by Julie Heffernan

July 10th - September 2nd, 2018

American Art Posters of the 1890s

May 22nd - August 19th, 2018

Spring 2018

Dox Thrash, Black Life, and the Carborundum Mezzotint

January 16th - May 20th, 2018

Plastic Entanglements: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials

February 13th - June 17th, 2018

Pop at the Palmer

January 9th - May 13th, 2018

Fall 2017

Big Deal: Sizeable Paintings from the Permanent Collection

September 5th - December 17th, 2017

New Acquisitions: Minna Citron after Atelier 17

September 5th - December 10th, 2017

Asher B. Durand: To Begin Again

September 5th - December 10th, 2017

Spring 2017

Eva Watson-Schütze: Pictorialist Portraits

January 10th - April 30th, 2017

Morris Blackburn: Prints and Paintings in Process

January 17th - April 30th, 2017

A Kaleidoscope of Color: Studio Glass at the Palmer

January 31st - April 30th, 2017

Fall 2016

Expanded Practice

October 18th - December 11th, 2016

The Gentle Satire of Adolf Dehn

August 30th - December 18th, 2016

Recent Acquisitions: Gifford Beal in Rockport

August 23rd - December 18th, 2016

Summer 2016

American Art in the Shadow of World War I

May 17th - August 7th, 2016

Still Moving: Photographs by Steve McCurry

June 14th - September 18th, 2016

The Prints of Jules Heller

June 7th - August 14th, 2016

Spring 2016

Consciously Surreal: Photography, the Uncanny, and the Body

January 12th - May 8th, 2016

From Dada to Dalí: Surrealist Works on Paper

January 12th - May 8th, 2016

Small Prints, Big Artists: Renaissance and Baroque Masterpieces from Carnegie Museum of Art

February 2nd - May 15th, 2016

Fall 2015

Mining the Store II: American Drawings and Watercolors from the Permanent Collection

August 25th - December 13th, 2015

You Have to See This: Abstract Art from the Permanent Collection

September 1st - December 6th, 2015

Archipenko: A Modern Legacy

September 22nd - December 13th, 2015

Summer 2015

Recent Acquisitions

May 5th - August 9th, 2015

Flora and Fauna

May 19th - August 16th, 2015

Luminous Allure: Studio Glass from the Collection of Audrey and Norbert Gaelen

June 23rd - August 16th, 2015

Spring 2015

Hidden Mother

January 6th - April 26th, 2015

Song of Myself

January 13th - May 10th, 2015

Francisco Goya: Los Caprichos

February 3rd - May 10th, 2015

Fall 2014

Marcellus Shale Documentary Project

September 23rd - December 14th, 2014

Lanny Sommese: Image Maker

August 26th - December 21st, 2014

Henry Varnum Poor: Studies for the Land Grant Frescoes

September 2nd - December 21st, 2014

Summer 2014

Seeing America: Photographs from the Permanent Collection

May 20th - August 10th, 2014

Window on the West: Views from the American Frontier

June 10th - August 31st, 2014

Mining the Store: American Prints from the Permanent Collection

May 13th - August 24th, 2014

Spring 2014

British Watercolors from the Permanent Collection

January 7th - May 4th, 2014

Forging Alliances

January 7th - May 11th, 2014

Surveying Judy Chicago: Five Decades

January 21st - May 11th, 2014

Fall 2013

American Block and Burin: Wood Engravings from the Permanent Collection

August 27th - December 8th, 2013

Recent Acqusitions

September 3rd - December 15th, 2013

Uncanny Congruencies

September 10th - December 15th, 2013

Summer 2013

Suspended Contemplation: Drawings and Watercolors by Leon Kelly

May 21st - August 11th, 2013

La Manière Anglaise: Mezzotints from the Permanent Collection

May 28th - August 25th, 2013

From Your Town to Ours: Pennsylvania Prints from the O'Connor-Yeager Collection Revisited

June 4th - August 11th, 2013

Spring 2013

Lit with Piercing Glances: Linocuts by James Mullen

January 6th - May 19th, 2013

"Varied and Untried": Early Twentieth-Century American Paintings from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection

January 13th - May 5th, 2013

Drawn to Paint: The Art of Jerome Witkin

February 26th - May 5th, 2013

Fall 2012

Floating Between Worlds: New Research on Japanese Prints from the Permanent Collection

August 28th - December 9th, 2012

Photography at the Palmer: A Selection of Gifts

September 18th - December 16th, 2012

Celebrating Forty Years of Gifts: Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection

September 25th - January 20th, 2012

Summer 2012

Color My World: Color Photographs from the Permanent Collection

May 22nd - August 19th, 2012

American Quilts from the Terasaki Collection

June 12th - August 26th, 2012

Protecting Paper at the Palmer

June 19th - September 9th, 2012

Spring 2012

Hogarth Restored

February 7th - May 13th, 2012

Me, Myself, and the Mirror: Self-Portraits from the Permanent Collection

February 7th - May 27th, 2012

Painting the People: Images of American Life from the Maimon Collection

January 31st - May 13th, 2012

Fall 2011

Studio Practice: Recent Work by SoVA Faculty

September 6th - December 11th, 2011

Seriality: Photographs from the Permanent Collection

September 20th - January 15th, 2011

Recent Acquisitions

September 27th - January 22nd, 2011

Summer 2011

Associated American Artists: Art By Subscription

June 5th - August 7th, 2011

Treasures Transferred: Selections from the University Libraries Print Collection

May 17th - August 28th, 2011

Femfolio

June 14th - September 18th, 2011

Spring 2011

Prints and Politics in Weimar Germany

January 18th - May 1st, 2011

John Rogers: American Stories

February 22nd - May 15th, 2011

African American Art from the Permanent Collection

March 1st - June 5th, 2011

Fall 2010

Taxing Visions: Financial Episodes in Late Nineteenth-Century American Art

September 28th - December 19th, 2010

At the Heart of Progress: Coal, Iron, and Steam since 1750, Industrial Imagery from The John P. Eckblad Collection

October 19th - January 23rd, 2010

Atelier 17 in America: 1940–1955

October 26th - February 20th, 2010

Summer 2010

Recent Aquisitions

May 25th - October 17th, 2010

Prints by Sculptors: From the Collection of James and Betty Myford

June 8th - September 12th, 2010

A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections

July 6th - September 26th, 2010

Spring 2010

I Heard a Voice: The Art of Lesley Dill

January 24th - April 25th, 2010

"Licenc'd to Bark": James Gillray and the Art of Satire

February 2nd - May 16th, 2010

Italian Old Master Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection

February 16th - May 23rd, 2010

Fall 2009

Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite

September 15th - November 29th, 2009

Big Shot Shuffle: Photographs by Andy Warhol

August 18th - January 24th, 2009

Old Master Drawings

September 22nd - January 31st, 2009

Summer 2009

Making Impressions: Printmakers of Philadelphia

May 19th - September 13th, 2009

Aspects of Americana: Photorealist Prints from the Permanent Collection

May 26th - August 9th, 2009

Face of Asia: Steve McCurry Photographs

June 21st - August 16th, 2009

Spring 2009

Peter Henry Emerson and American Naturalistic Photography

January 20th - May 17th, 2009

Breathing Motions: Figure Studies by Arthur B. Davies

February 3rd - May 3rd, 2009

Recent Acquisitions

February 10th - May 17th, 2009

Fall 2008

New York Cool: Painting and Sculpture from the NYU Art Collection

September 16th - December 14th, 2008

Selling the Susquehanna

September 30th - December 21st, 2008

Etchings by Mark Leithauser

October 7th - February 1st, 2008

Summer 2008

Miniature Worlds: Art from India

June 15th - August 10th, 2008

Richard Haas: Print and Preservation

June 3rd - September 14th, 2008

Joel Meyerowitz: Bay Sky Porch

June 3rd - September 28th, 2008

Spring 2008

Manet and Friends

January 15th - April 6th, 2008

Resonance from the Past: African Art from the New Orleans Museum of Art

February 19th - May 11th, 2008

G. Daniel Massad: Loading the Work

February 24th - May 25th, 2008

Fall 2007

Shallow Creek: Thomas Hart Benton and American Waterways

September 4th - December 2nd, 2007

Summer 2007

Ansel Adams & Edwin Land: Art, Science and Invention, Photographs from the Polaroid Collection

July 12th - September 9th, 2007

Spring 2007

Family Legacies: The Art of Betye, Lezley, and Alison Saar

January 30th - April 22nd, 2007

Fall 2006

Couples Discourse

October 10th - December 20th, 2006

Summer 2006

Celestial Images: Antiquarian Astronomical Charts and Maps from the Mendillo Collection

July 18th - September 17th, 2006

Spring 2006

Picturing the Banjo

March 30th - June 25th, 2006

Fall 2005

Wos up man? Selections from the Joseph D. and Janet M. Shein Collection of Self-Taught Art

October 11th - February 12th, 2005