May 19, 2021
WASHINGTON, DC As part of the museum’s centennial celebrations, The Phillips Collection presents
Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle, the first reunion since 1958 of the celebrated artist’s 30-panel series
Struggle: From the History of the American People. The exhibition includes two panels discovered in 2020 and 2021, offering a rare opportunity to reconstitute the lost narrative of the series and with it a radically integrated view of American history. The five-stop national exhibition tour organized by the Peabody Essex Museum culminates at the Phillips from June 26 to September 19, 2021.
Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) was one of the greatest American artists of the 20th century. Early in his career, he developed his unique multi-panel format and painted narratives portraits of the lives of famed African Americans. In 1942, Duncan Phillips purchased the odd-numbered panels of his acclaimed
May 6, 2021
WASHINGTON, DC As part of its centennial celebrations, The Phillips Collection is excited to announce site-specific commissions by three DC-based artists: Wesley Clark, Nekisha Durrett, and Victor Ekpuk. Clark’s project will be presented at Phillips@THEARC, the museum’s satellite campus at Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Campus in Southeast DC (scheduled for the fall); Durrett’s work will be installed on the bridges of The Phillips Collection connecting the museum’s Goh Annex building to the original House (summer); and Ekpuk’s immersive installation will occupy the entrance vestibule (summer).
“Washington, DC-based artists Wesley Clark, Nekisha Durrett, and Victor Ekpuk have all produced work that is part of the fabric of our city,” says
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The Phillips Collection celebrates its centennial year in 2021. After losing his father in 1917 and then his brother in the 1918 influenza pandemic, museum founder Duncan Phillips wrote in A Collection in the Making, “Art offers two great gifts of emotion the emotion of recognition and the emotion of escape. Both emotions take us out of the boundaries of self…. At my period of crisis I was prompted to create something which would express my awareness of life’s returning joys and .
The Phillips Collection appoints five new Trustees
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WASHINGTON, DC
.-The Phillips Collection has elected five new members to join its Board of Trustees. The new members bring a wealth of new perspectives to the Phillips and their range of expertise will provide the museum with additional tools to celebrate its centennial year in 2021 and continue its impact.
We are thrilled to welcome Patty Alper, Barbara Brown, Jane Chu, Paul Killian, and Sala Elise Patterson to our Board of Trustees, said Vradenburg Director & CEO Dorothy Kosinski. These accomplished individuals bring insights, expertise, and diverse perspectives that will enhance all of our work at the Phillipsfrom education to communications and visitors experienceimportant capacities as we embark on our next 100 years.