The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State has announced a third special exhibition for the summer, "George Miller and American Lithography," which opens June 18. The exhibition is selected entirely from the museum’s permanent collection and features 38 prints by an impressive roster of artists who worked with master printer George Miller to create some of their most memorable and recognizable works.
The Palmer Museum of Art’s acclaimed exhibition, "From the Rooftops: John Sloan and the Art of a New Urban Space," will be closing at the Palmer on May 12 and traveling to The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, New York, where it opens on June 15.
The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State has announced an exciting and diverse schedule of exhibitions for 2019. Highlights include an ambitious loan exhibition featuring works by Pennsylvania-native John Sloan, exhibitions of prints and works on paper by an international roster of artists, a major show highlighting modernist photographers enthralled with Mexico, and two exhibitions examining the powerful work of noted African-American artists of the 20th century.
The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State is organizing a major loan exhibition on American artist John Sloan. "From the Rooftops: John Sloan and the Art of a New Urban Space" will be on view at the Palmer from Feb. 3 to May 12.
"Object Lessons: American Still-Life Painting in the Nineteenth Century" and "Instinctive Gestures: Recent Gifts from the Fishman-MacElderry Collection" will both close Dec. 16 at the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State.
The major loan exhibition "A Small Radius of Light: G. Daniel Massad, A Retrospective," which features 72 works spanning five decades of work by Pennsylvania artist G. Daniel Massad, will be closing at the Palmer Museum on Dec. 9.
Artist G. Daniel Massad will present a lecture titled “Yours Truly” at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 11, in the Palmer Museum of Art's Palmer Lipcon Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.
The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State has announced its summer 2018 exhibition schedule. This summer, the museum will present recent large-scale paintings by contemporary artist Julie Heffernan, as well as exhibitions drawn from the museum’s permanent collection, including a display of documentary and modernist photographs of the city, and a selection of posters from the golden age of American poster art.
"Dox Thrash, Black Life, and the Carborundum Mezzotint," a new exhibition opening Jan. 16 at the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State, showcases the works of American printmaking pioneering Dox Thrash and his carborundum mezzotint printmaking process.
The public is invited to join staff and volunteers of the Palmer Museum of Art from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14, for the museum's annual Community Day event located on Curtin Road, University Park campus. Explore the reinstallation of the galleries and current exhibitions on view and meet Erin Coe, the museum's new director. Live music, gallery talks, hands-on activities and Berkey Creamery ice cream will be offered to all for free.
The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State is continuing its popular series of one-day exhibitions highlighting works on paper from the museum’s permanent collection. Open to the public, the works in the "Paper Views" series will be on display in the Drs. Albert and Lorraine Kligman Print and Drawing Study Room, located on the museum’s second floor. The public is also invited to participate in conversations about the individual exhibits scheduled for Sept. 8, Oct. 6, Nov. 3, and Dec. 1.
The Palmer Museum of Art will present a new exhibition titled "Asher B. Durand: To Begin Again" from Sept. 5 through Dec. 10. This exhibition focuses on the early career of this leading artist of the Hudson River School. The centerpiece of the exhibition is Durand’s first commissioned landscape painting, "Boonton Falls, New Jersey," which the museum recently acquired.
The Palmer Museum of Art will present a new exhibition, "New Acquisitions: Minna Citron after Atelier 17," from Sept. 5 through Dec. 10, that features 16 intaglios demonstrating how Citron continued to probe the expressive possibilities of abstract line and form, an approach that was central to the Atelier 17 aesthetic, for the remainder of her career.
The Palmer Museum of Art will present a new exhibition this semester that highlights monumental canvases from the permanent collection — many of which have not been on view in recent years — in an attempt to unpack preoccupations with size in post-1945 art. What compelled these artists to work at such a large scale? What does sheer size argue about the paintings in question? "BIG Deal: Sizeable Paintings from the Permanent Collection" will be on view Sept. 5 through Dec. 17.
The Palmer Museum of Art will present a new exhibition titled "Morris Blackburn: Prints and Paintings in Process" from Jan. 17 through April 30. The majority of the drawings, prints, and paintings in the exhibition demonstrate the influence that printmaker Stanley William Hayter had on Blackburn’s creative process.
