Untitled (Boxer), 1963, Charles Searles Floral Still Life, 1977, Charles Jay Woodmere Art Museum: Woodmere Art Museum: Museum purchase, 2014 Museum purchase, 2012

YOUR GUIDE TO AFRICAN-AMERICAN Special Exhibits & Permanent ART IN PHILLY Collections Make 2015 A Masterful One visitphilly.com/blackart Self-Portrait (II), 1944, Horace Pippin #visitphilly Courtesy: Brandywine River Museum of Art Complications by Danny Simmons, photo by Guenter Knop re you a fan of African- FEBRUARY 5-MARCH 21, 2015 AFRICAN-AMERICAN ART Did you know that the American art? If your an- As We See It: Selected Works from the Academy of the Fine Arts is the nation’s first fine arts school and museum and the swer is yes, then you’re in Petrucci Family Foundation Collection, ANYTIME OF YEAR A The African American Museum in first in the world to exhibit works by an the right city. In 2015, Philadelphia African-American artist? While at this his- museums will mount seven major Masterpieces by such luminaries as Edward toric treasure, you can see major works by Nick Cave, Kehinde Wiley, , exhibitions featuring some of the Bannister, and Eliza- beth Catlett and works by school children Mickalene Thomas, Jacob Lawrence, most celebrated African-American who have been influenced by them Horace Pippin and others. artists, further adding to the city’s APRIL 24-JUNE 7, 2015 reputation as one of the world’s For more than 42 years, the Brandywine Selected Works from the Danny Simmons Workshop has been a national force in great art centers. But really, Collection, The African American Museum the development and understanding of anytime of year is a great time to in Philadelphia American printmaking as a fine-art form. see African-American (and even Exploring the artistic side of Danny Simmons, Here you can buy your favorite prints and best known as a writer, producer and Tony win- lithographs from artists-in-residence past African) art in Philadelphia thanks ner for his Broadway version of Def Poetry Jam and present, including Sam Gilliam, Jacob to the museums’ astounding and Landau, Jules Olitski, Betye Sarr and Moe APRIL 25-JULY 19, 2015 inspiring permanent collections. Brooker. Horace Pippin: The Way I See It, Brandywine River Museum of Art Located in historic Chestnut Hill, Wood- The first major exhibition of the artist’s works mere Art Museum celebrates the work in the country in more than two decades SPECIAL of Philadelphia artists, including the city’s MAY 1-JULY 31, 2015 many great African-American talents. Think EXHIBITIONS Charles Jay, Humbert Howard, Charles Barkley L. Hendricks: Oh, Snap!, Searles, Sterling Shaw, Ron Tarver, Claude Art Sanctuary Clark, James Brantley, , Moe Showing off a series of photographs by the famed painter that explore black culture and Brooker and many, many more. The African American inner-city life Museum in Philadelphia

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015- Sure, you can check out special exhibi- JANUARY 24, 2016 tions at The African American Museum in th African-American Artists of 20 -Century Philadelphia, but the museum also houses Philadelphia, Woodmere Art Museum and frequently displays a large collection Telling the stories of some of Philadelphia’s of paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, most celebrated African-American artists sculptures and mixed-media works that such as James Brantley, Claude Clark and chronicle and dramatically tell the story of Ellen Powell Tiberino the black Diaspora. Smoking My Pipe NOVEMBER 13, 2015- Prominent African-American architect JANUARY 10-APRIL 5, 2015 APRIL 3, 2016 Julian Abele designed the east façade of the Represent: 200 Years of African Ameri- Procession: The Art of Norman Lewis, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia Museum of Art, but you can can Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art see works by other African-Americans in- Showcasing the museum’s significant col- Works from four decades of the artist’s Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts side the building as well. Put these three on lection of African-American art, including career, from the 1930s through the 1970s your not-to-be-missed list: Miss T by Barkley works by Henry Ossawa Tanner, Horace Smoking My Pipe, 1934, by Samuel Joseph Brown, Hendricks, Storage Jar by David Drake and ® Pippin, Martin Puryear and Carrie Mae Jr. (Public Works of Art Project, on long-term loan to Photos by M. Kennedy & B. Krist for VISIT PHILADELPHIA Weems the Philadelphia Museum of Art from the Fine Arts Mr. Prejudice by Horace Pippin. Collection, U.S. General Services Administration)

PERMANENT WHERE TO FIND COLLECTIONS OF AFRICAN ART ALL OF THIS ARTISTIC AWESOMENESS Dr. Albert Barnes’ interest in African art dates back to the early 1920s, when he The African American Museum Brandywine Workshop acquired traditional African masks and in Philadelphia 728 S. Broad Street, (215) 546-3675, sculptures from the Dan and possibly 701 Arch Street, (215) 574-0380, brandywineworkshop.org Kulango societies of Côte d’Ivoire, as well aampmuseum.org as from Guinea and northeast Liberia. Penn Museum You can admire these treasured works Art Sanctuary 3260 South Street, (215) 898-4000, th penn.museum at the , home to a 628 S. 16 Street, (215) 232-4485, artsanctuary.org remarkable collection of paintings from the masters of modern art. The African art Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Barnes Foundation 118 N. Broad Street, (215) 972-7600, here is displayed in remarkable ensembles 20th Street & Benjamin Franklin Parkway, pafa.org that show how the likes of Picasso and (866) 849-7056, barnesfoundation.org Modigliani were influenced by the stylistic Philadelphia Museum of Art and symbolic forms in African art. Bonus: Brandywine River Museum of Art 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, The Barnes also holds important works by U.S. Route 1 by Creek Road (formerly (215) 763-8100, philamuseum.org American artists such as Horace Pippin. Route 100), Chadds Ford, (610) 388-2700, brandywine.org Woodmere Art Museum 9201 Germantown Avenue, (215) 247-0476, woodmereartmuseum.org

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