PAFA announces new additions to the permanent collection
Dyani White Hawk, (b. 1976), She Gives (Quiet Strength VII), 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 84 x 120 in. (213.36 x 304.8 cm.) Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Museum Purchase, 2020.17.
PHILADELPHIA, PA
.-The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts announced its latest acquisitions of a wide range of artworks that significantly enhance its renowned American art collection. Ranging in date from 1869 to 2020, the museum acquired 168 works of art through purchase and gift. These new additions include historic, 20th century, and contemporary art in the form of paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper. Works by 62 living artists have joined the permanent collection, and 98% of the acquisitions represent the 20th and 21st centuries.
Two-Thirds of PAFA s New Acquisitions Are By Women and African American Artists
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Kwame Brathwaite (b. 1938) Untitled [Pat on car] ca.1968. Archival pigment print, ed. 5/10, printed 2016, 15 x 15 in. (38.1 x 38.1 cm.) Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia . Museum Purchase, 2020.28.3
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has announced its latest acquisitions of a wide range of artworks that significantly enhance its renowned American art collection. Ranging in date from 1869 to 2020, the museum acquired 168 works of art through purchase and gift. These new additions include historic, 20th-century, and contemporary art in the form of paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper. Works by 62 living artists have joined the permanent collection, and 98% of the acquisitions represent the 20th and 21st centuries.
Installation view, Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond at Skidmore s Tang Museum.
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. In light of the global health crisis, we are currently highlighting events in person and digitally, as well as in-person exhibitions open in the New York area. See our picks from around the world below. (Times are all EST unless otherwise noted.)
Marina Abramović,
The Hero (Family story of my father who was a hero in the Second World War in Yugoslavia) (2001). Photo courtesy of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC.
Angela Fraleigh. Photo by Wes Heiss, courtesy of the artist.
Angela Fraleigh brings the work of the Old Masters into the 21st century with gorgeously rendered figures that seemed plucked from classical Western art history, which she paints against colorful abstract backgrounds rife with references to design traditions.
For “Fluttering Still,” her first New York solo show in over a decade, which is on view at Hirschl & Adler Modern, Fraleigh has overlaid elements pulled from turn-of-the-century illustrations by pioneering female designers Ethel Reed and Gerda Wegener atop images of women painted at life size.
Ahead of last month’s opening, we spoke with Fraleigh about her recent inspirations, what she listens to in the studio, and the art-historical research behind her latest works.
In One Art Exhibition, Women Are Taking Space They ve Long Deserved
Deborah Willis,
I Made Space For a Good Man, 2009, Lithograph, gift from the collection of Winston and Carolyn Lowe in honor of Brandywine founder, Allan L. Edmunds, 2019.18.35
Deborah Willis / Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia By Susan Stamberg
She was 22. One of three women in a class of 24. Her professor at the Philadelphia College of Art told her she was taking up a good man s space in his class. All she d do when school was over was get pregnant and raise her child. Meanwhile, said the professor, a good man could have been in that space.