From Philadelphia to Monaco: GRACE KELLY – Beyond the Icon
Michener Art Museun
October 28, 2013 – January 26, 2014
This exhibition traces the unique path Grace Kelly took from Philadelphia to Monaco, inviting viewers to discover the life of Grace Kelly (1929-1982) beyond the fairy tale. This exhibition brings us up close to the stage and screen legend, fashion icon, princess, United Nations advocate for children, and international spokesperson for arts and culture.
Nelson Shanks: A Brush with Reality
Michener Art Museum
June 8-September 8, 2013
The Michener Art Museum will be exhibiting the paintings of Nelson Shanks June 8 through September 8, 2013 in the Putman Smith Gallery. Nelson Shanks: A Brush with Reality brings together more than 20 major paintings from public and private collections around the country and from the artist’s personal collection.
Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity
Michener Art Museum
April 13 – July 7, 2013
American artists of African, Arab, European, Asian, Latino and Native American descent explore their heritage in Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity, on view at the Michener Art Museum April 13 through July 7, 2013.
Transformations II: Works in Steel by Karl Stirner
Pfundt Gallery at the Michener Art Museum
March 16 – June 16, 2013.
Picasso may have been the first sculptor to work in iron, and David Smith’s works may have signaled the beginning of steel sculpture, but Karl Stirner was among the first to strip metal of its suggestiveness and allow it to become purely abstract, to reveal its pure form.
The Mind’s Eye: 50 Years of Photography by Jerry Uelsmann
Michener Art Museum, Doylestown
January 19 – April 28, 2013
Jerry Uelsmann is considered a darkroom magician and a master of contemporary photography. His work is at once witty, dreamlike, mysterious, and provocative. The Michener Art Museum will be exhibiting nearly 100 iconic photographs from Uelsmann’s celebrated career January 19 through April 28 in a major retrospective organized by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. The Michener exhibition sponsor is Jon Paton.
November 3, 2012 through March 3, 2013
Pfundt Gallery
Ted Hallman has been an important figure in modern design since the late 1950s, using textiles as an artistic medium. Born in 1933 in Bucks County, his work is in the permanent collections at the Smithsonian Institution, the Metropolitan Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.
I Look, I Listen: Works on Paper by Marlene Miller
Michener Art Museum
July 14 – October 14, 2012
I Look, I Listen: Works on Paper by Marlene Miller is on view in the Pfundt Gallery, James A. Michener Art Museum, July 14 through October 14, 2012. This exhibit is sponsored by Mary Lou and Andrew Abruzzese, The Pineville Tavern.
The Michener Art Museum Board of Directors is pleased to announce Lisa Tremper Hanover as the museum’s new Director and CEO. She succeeds Bruce Katsiff, who has been at the helm since 1989. Hanover has been director, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, for nearly a quarter century, where she also is […]
Have Gags Will Travel: The Life and Times of a New York Cartoonist
Michener Art Museum
March 10 – July 1, 2012
In the 1950s, Rosie the Riveter morphed into Betty Crocker, and Madison Avenue’s seductive images of happiness and contentment in the home governed women’s lives. Sylvia Getsler chose a different path.
To Stir, Inform and Inflame: The Art of Tony Auth
Michener Art Museum
June 2 – September 23, 2012
Tony Auth’s cartoons, seemingly simple and always direct, have influenced public opinion and politicians for more than 40 years. “Our job is not to amuse our readers,” Auth says of a national artistic heritage of editorial cartooning that began with Benjamin Franklin in 1754. “Our mission is to stir them, inform and inflame them.”
Mavis Smith: Hidden Realities
Michener Art Museum
January 14 – May 20, 2012
You’re strolling down a busy sidewalk, absorbed in your thoughts. Suddenly someone walking the other way glances in your direction, you glance back, and your reverie is broken. Two souls meet, briefly, then the moment passes, and without breaking stride you each walk on.
The paintings of Mavis Smith are about that moment, hinting at a narrative, yet remaining intentionally elusive. Mavis Smith: Hidden Realities will be on view at the James A. Michener Art Museum January 14 to May 20, 2012 in the Fred Beans Gallery.
Offering of the Angels (Il Pane degli Angeli)
James A. Michener Art Museum
April 21, 2012-August 11, 2012
For the first time ever, a selection of paintings and tapestries from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, by such Renaissance and Baroque masters as Sandro Botticelli, Il Parmigianino, Lorenzo Monaco, Il Guercino and Cristofano Allori, is coming to the United States.