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5 unusual facts about Philadelphia Museum of Art


D. Michael Fisher

In a 2009 documentary film about the politics behind attempts to move the Barnes Foundation art collection to the Philadelphia Museum of Art called “The Art of the Steal,” Fisher admitted using pressure on Lincoln University officials to get them to approve the move.

Frances Simpson Stevens

Very little of Stevens' art has survived, one work that has is Dynamic Velocity of Interborough Rapid Transit Power Station at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Interstate 676

It immediately crosses the Schuylkill River on the Vine Street Expressway Bridge and comes to an interchange with 23rd Street and 22nd Street and the Ben Franklin Parkway that has access to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Franklin Institute.

Pamella Bordes

Her work featured in India: A celebration of independence organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA in 1997 and accompanied by a catalogue and essay by Victor Anant, published by Aperture, New York, USA.

William Larson

His works can be found in many significant collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the George Eastman House, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.


Barbara Blondeau

Her photographs are a part of the permanent collections at The National Gallery of Canada, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Rhode Island School of Design, and Colgate University.

Bennett Bean

Bean's work appears in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in Massachusetts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Pennsylvania, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey, the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton, New Jersey, the JB Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Burton Silverman

His paintings are represented in more than two dozen public collections including the Brooklyn Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the New Britain Museum, the Mint Museum, the Denver Art Museum, the National Museum of American Art, the Delaware Art Museum, the Columbus Museum and the National Portrait Gallery.

Dick Doran

A leader in the world of Philadelphia cultural institutions, he was Chairman of the Board of the Curtis Institute of Music, a member of the Board of the Opera Company of Philadelphia, and an advisor to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Josh Owen

His work is included in the permanent design collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Denver Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Chicago Athenaeum and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Lemon Hill

The mansion was restored by the architectural historian Fiske Kimball, 1925–26, who lived here while president of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1925–55.

Marvin Lipofsky

In the United States his work can be found in the collections of the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Philadelphia Museum of Art and Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio.

Master of the Embroidered Foliage

Of the five paintings considered by Friedländer, three are in the United States, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and Clark Art Institute, and the other two in Europe, at the Groeningemuseum, Bruges, and the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille.

Oliver O'Connor Barrett

Barrett was one of the sculptors who exhibited at the 3rd Sculpture International, sponsored by the Fairmount Park Art Association and held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1949.

Portrait of Leslie W. Miller

As secretary of the Fairmount Park Art Association (1900–20), he was involved in public art decisions for the City, including the layout of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and the design of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Yoon Kwang-cho

His works have been shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Seattle Art Museum Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama, and are part of the regular collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.


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