Below is a list of past and current exhibitions relating to American Art. For all current and upcoming exhibitions, click here.

Past and Current Exhibitions

Philadelphia Treasures Eakins’s Gross Clinic and Saint-Gaudens’s Angel of Purity
August 2, 2008 - June 2009

Cultural Convergence: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Craft
November 1, 2008 - March 2009

The Fix on Colonial Philadelphia Furniture: A Secret Guide to Cabinetmakers’ Prices
July 3, 2008 - February 22, 2009

Thomas Chambers (1808-1869): American Marine and Landscape Painter
September 27, 2008 - December 28, 2008

American Folk Painting from the Collection
July 19, 2008 - December 2008

Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt
September 16, 2008 - December 14, 2008

Precious Possessions: The American Craft Collection
November 3, 2007 - October 26, 2008

Colonial Philadelphia Porcelain: The Art of Bonnin and Morris
March 8, 2008 - June 1, 2008

Celebrating American Craft: 30 Years of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show
September 19, 2006 - October 21, 2007

Room for Revolution: George Washington and His Philadelphia Friends
March 16, 2007 - August 30, 2007

Forging an American Identity: The Art of William Ranney
June 26, 2007 - August 19, 2007

Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic
January 5, 2007 - March 4, 2007

Contemporary Crafts from the Collection
March 19, 2005 - August 20, 2006

Andrew Wyeth and the American Landscape Tradition
May 27, 2006 - July 16, 2006

Andrew Wyeth: Memory and Magic
March 29, 2006 - July 16, 2006

Beauford Delaney: From New York to Paris
November 13, 2005 - January 29, 2006

The Academy Goes Modern
April 30, 2005 - October 16, 2005

Stuart Davis and American Abstraction: A Masterpiece in Focus
January 15, 2005 - April 17, 2005

The Poetry of Clay: The Art of Toshiko Takaezu
August 7, 2004 - March 6, 2005

Small Worlds: Portrait Miniatures from the Jeannette B. Stern Whitebook Collection
May 1, 2004 - July 11, 2004

American Marine Paintings
February 15, 2004 - May 31, 2004

Elegant Innovations: American Rookwood Pottery, 1880–1960: The Gerald and Virginia Gordon Collection
November 15, 2003 - March 21, 2004

Crafting a Legacy: Contemporary American Crafts in the Philadelphia Museum of Art
September 26, 2002 - August 10, 2003

Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas
February 12, 2003 - May 11, 2003

Dox Thrash: An African American Master Printmaker Rediscovered
October 27, 2001 - February 24, 2002

Thomas Eakins: American Realist
October 4, 2001 - January 6, 2002

Alice Neel
February 18, 2001 - April 15, 2001

Contemporary American Crafts
September 11, 1998 - March 19, 2000

The Kingdoms of Edward Hicks
October 10, 1999 - January 2, 2000

Worldly Goods: The Arts of Early Pennsylvania, 1680-1758
October 10, 1999 - January 2, 2000

Self-Taught Artists of the 20th Century: An American Anthology
March 10, 1998 - May 17, 1998