Exhibitions
The Palmer Museum of Art presents new and changing special exhibitions and related programming every year. See below to explore what’s on view, what’s coming up, or what past exhibitions have been at the museum.
Exhibition Status: Upcoming
Locations and Artworks
Site 1 – 200 W Beaver Avenue | Violet Oakley, Venus Rising from the Sea, 1940
Site 2 – 123 W Beaver Avenue (inside) | Roberto Lugo, Melting Pot I, 2018
Site 3 – 211 S Allen Street | Theodore Robinson, Sunlight and Shadows, 1896
Site 4 – 364 E College Avenue (inside) | Ralph Hetzel, Approximately Dorn, 1963
Site 5 – 101 Hiester Street | John Sloan, Two Sisters, 1925
Site 6 – 113 Hiester Street | Gifford Beal, The Roman Standing Race, about 1930
Site 7 – 320 E Calder Way (side) | Everett Shinn, The Vaudeville Act, 1902–03
Site 8 – 252 E Calder Way (side)
- Jacob Eichholtz, Portrait of Catharine Mayer Eichholtz, about 1819
- Attributed to William Aiken Walker, Portrait of a Woman, about 1920
- Sanh Brian Tran, Camouflage, No. 5, 2016
- John Singleton Copley, Joshua Henshaw II, about 1770–74
- Louis B. Sloan, Untitled (Portrait of a Boy), about 1958
- Tom Jones, Cyrus Ortiz, 2015
- Charles Willson Peale, Mrs. David Beveridge (Mary Emlen), 1773
Site 9 – 222 E Calder Way (side) | James Henry Cafferty, The Weary Newsboy, 1861
Site 10 – 119 S Pugh Street (side) | Reginald Marsh, Gathering the Mail, 1934
Site 11 – 135 E Calder Way | John George Brown, How Happy Could I be with Either?, about 1897
Site 12a – 115 S Allen Street (side) | Kenneth Hayes Miller, The Little Coat and Fur Shop, 1931
Site 12b – 115 S Allen Street (side) | Simka Simkhovitch, Island Beach Ferry, 1940
Project Partners
- Downtown State College Improvement District
- Palmer Museum of Art
- Centre Foundation
- Happy Valley Adventure Bureau
- Borough of State College
- Central PA Festival of the Arts
Funded by The Knight Foundation Fund at Centre Foundation.