February 10, 2015
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
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
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
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
December 21, 2021
August 28, 2015
February 6, 2016 - May 8, 2016
Featuring 39 masterpieces spanning five centuries, this exhibition draws from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection to explore the evolution of European and American landscape art. Highlights include Jan Brueghel the Younger’s 17th‐century allegorical paintings of the five senses that invite visitors to consider their own experiences of the world. Venice, one of Allen’s favorite cities, is sumptuously represented in the exhibition through stunning Venetian scenes by Canaletto, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, and J. M. W. Turner, among others. Other highlights include five Monet landscapes spanning
August 22, 2019, 6:30 pm
PostClassical Ensemble examines the transformation of black spirituals into songs for the white concert stage through the musical adaptations and arrangements by composer Harry Burleigh. Readings of W.E.B Du Bois, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Thurston explore the tensions and questions of the fate of the spiritual in the context of the Harlem Renaissance.
June 20, 2009 - September 13, 2009
Paint Made Flesh examines the ways in which European and American painters have used oil paint and the human body to convey enduring human vulnerabilities, among them anxieties about desire, appearance, illness, aging, war, and death.
