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The Philadelphia Museum of Art Is Home to These 12 Notable Paintings


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The Philadelphia Museum of Art was founded in 1876 as the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art; it adopted its current name in 1938. Today its collection consists of more than 240,000 artworks. This list focuses on just 12 of its paintings.
Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die
, edited by Stephen Farthing (2018). Writers’ names appear in parentheses.
Entry into Port of a Ship with a Red Rose Aboard (1985–86)
This painting is expressive of Enzo Cucchi’s more subdued works somber colors and stark themes, redolent of death and sadness. In it, the crosses ostensibly mark the moorings of other boats in the port, which the ship must navigate its way beyond. Yet they are sinister, suggestive of cemeteries, or perhaps slave ships. The deliberately smeared black leeching from some of the crosses evokes not only water in the por ....

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