Phillips-at-Home: Quilted Creations
December 21, 2021
February 28-June 16, 2024
How do we celebrate the beauty of the world around us? How do we create cozy places in our lives? How can artworks inspire us to look at everyday life through a new lens? Inspired by the vibrancy of Bonnard’s Worlds , students from three Washington, DC, schools explored these questions and the places that have meaning for them. In fall 2023, as part of ArtLinks, The Phillips Collection’s multi-visit school partnership program, the Phillips Education Department worked with classroom teachers from Powell, Noyes, and Takoma Elementary Schools to design art projects that met the unique needs and
February 7, 2015 - May 10, 2015
Man Ray–Human Equations: A Journey from Mathematics to Shakespeare explores the intersection of art and science that defined a significant component of modern art at the beginning of the 20th century. Working in Hollywood in the late 1940s, Man Ray (American, 1890–1976) created the Shakespearean Equations, a series of paintings that he considered to be the apogee of his creative vision. Drawing on photographs of 19th-century mathematical models he made in the 1930s, the series was a culmination of 15 years of exploration of the theme in a variety of mediums. Man Ray–Human Equations displays
November 3, 2015
Seeing Nature offers a rare opportunity for east coast audiences to witness the leading investor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist’s personal vision. WASHINGTON—Next spring, The Phillips Collection will present a major exhibition exploring the evolution of American and European landscape painting. Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection features 39 masterpieces, spanning five centuries, on loan from the collection of entrepreneur and philanthropist Paul G. Allen. Co-organized by the Portland Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Paul G. Allen Family
Opaque watercolor, pen and black ink, with scraping, on paper 25 1/4 x 19 in.; 64.135 x 48.26 cm Gift of Rebecca B. and Julius W. Allen, initiated 1994, completed 2001; © 2022 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
November 2, 2014, 2 p.m.
Join the Phillips for a discussion about the artistic friendships and competitions of late-19th-century Europe.
December 21, 2021
January 23, 2016
Seeing Nature offers a rare opportunity for east coast audiences to experience 39 paintings from one of the Northwest’s most significant art collections. WASHINGTON—This spring, The Phillips Collection will present a major exhibition exploring the evolution of American and European landscape painting. Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection features 39 masterpieces, spanning five centuries, on loan from the collection of philanthropist and entrepreneur Paul G. Allen. Co-organized by the Portland Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Paul G. Allen
January 4, 2021
February 27, 2023