The department of image collections maintains a large collection of photographs, albums, and postcard booklets from national and international expositions and fairs.
The collection includes views from the fairs listed below, with features for Philadelphia
Exhibition History 2015 Audubon to Warhol: The Art of the American Still Life, Philadelphia
The self-taught artist Horace Pippin turned to art after his right arm was disabled by a sniper’s bullet while serving in the African American regiment known as the “Harlem Hellfighters� during World War I. After the war, Pippin settled in his hometown of West Chester, Pennsylvania, and by the late 1930s his work had attracted the interest of such notables as the artist N.
Sturgis Ingersoll, Esq., Philadelphia; Mr. and Mrs. Irving H.
Accession ID 2015.19.1040 Artwork Thomas Birch, View of the Delaware near Philadelphia
John Beale Bordley, a close friend of Charles Willson Peale, raised the funds in 1766 to send the young artist to London, where Peale trained under Benjamin West’s tutelage. In the stormy years before the American Revolution, Bordley was a Maryland planter, judge, and member of the Governor’s Council.
Painting and Printing to 1776, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Henry Ossawa Tanner was born in Pittsburgh in 1859, the first of five children born to Reverend Benjamin Tucker Tanner, a future bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and Sarah Tanner, a woman who had escaped her enslavers via the Underground Railroad. Their son’s unusual middle name was derived from the name of the town Osawatomie, Kansas, where the abolitionist John Brown had initiated his antislavery campaign.
The family settled in Philadelphia in 1868, and in 1879 Tanner enrolled in the Pennsylvania
Baby at Play is the final work in a series of intimate portraits of family and friends created by Eakins between 1870 and 1876. The painting depicts the artist’s two–and–a–half–year–old niece, Ella Crowell.
.; The Art Institute of Chicago; Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1961-1962, no. 22.
at Harvard University; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Cleveland Museum of Art; and Philadelphia
Art Museum, Cambridge, 1968, not in catalogue. 1973 Paul Gauguin: Monotypes, Philadelphia
Artwork history & notes Artwork History Provenance (Possibly Newman Galleries, Philadelphia
