Blue denim, cotton, red cotton, white cotton, and wool 81 in x 73 in; 205.74 cm x 185.42 cm Partial Gift, Partial purchase from Souls Grown Deep Foundation. The Dreier Fund for Acquisitions, 2019
Experience exhibitions and installation as if you were in the galleries. View full screen images, read text, listen to audio guides, and more.
December 4, 2020
The Phillips celebrates 100 years of experimentation and impact through art WASHINGTON, DC—The Phillips Collection announces its centennial year celebration in 2021. America’s first museum of modern art, founded in 1921, will feature Seeing Differently: The Phillips Collects for a New Century, a special exhibition drawn from its growing permanent collection of 4,700 works, a juried invitational for artists of the DMV, as well as a rich array of exhibitions by renowned artists, including Jacob Lawrence, David Driskell, Alma Thomas, Marley Dawson, and Sanford Biggers. The 100th year celebration
Diptych: Relief, etching, aquatint , collagraph and painted collage on two pieces of handmade paper with embossing overall: 41 1/2 in x 81 5/8 in; 105.41 cm x 207.33 cm Bequest of Marion F. and Norman W. Goldin, 2017
April 25, 2025, 12-1 pm
The Phillips Collection’s Living Room is a series of intimate conversations featuring artists, authors, curators, collectors, and museum professionals. These programs offer rare opportunities to engage in discussions that connect the museum’s collection with broader dialogues. Duncan Phillips, founder of The Phillips Collection, and Albert Barnes, founder of the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, were contemporaries and rivals. Join Blake Gopnik, author of The Maverick’s Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream and Jonathan P. Binstock, Vradenburg Director & CEO of The Phillips Collection
February 16, 2018
February 10, 2015
Oil with straw on canvas overall: 46 1/2 in x 57 in; 118.11 cm x 144.78 cm; Framed: 47 5/8 in x 58 3/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 120.97 cm x 148.27 cm x 3.18 cm Gift from the Family of Anita Reiner in her Memory, 2014
May 15, 2017
Dr. Kate E. Cowcher to Join the UMD Center for Art and Knowledge at The Phillips Collection as the 2017–18 Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern and Contemporary Art History WASHINGTON, DC, and COLLEGE PARK, MD—The University of Maryland Center for Art and Knowledge at The Phillips Collection has awarded its 2017–18 Fellowship in Modern and Contemporary Art History to Dr. Kate E. Cowcher, a 2017 graduate of Stanford University and scholar of art in Africa during the Cold War. “We are thrilled to have Dr. Kate E. Cowcher as our next postdoctoral fellow in modern and contemporary art history,” said Dr
June 27, 2022
