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Through its world-class objects, programs and outreach, the museum is a welcoming, inclusive and vibrant forum for authentic arts experiences and cultivates meaningful dialogue about today’s most potent ideas and pressing concerns.Īn expansive 21st-century teaching museum, the Palmer Museum of Art is a beacon for advancing the arts and humanities on Penn State’s University Park campus and throughout its diverse communities. A key element of Penn State’s land-grant mission of teaching, research and public service, the museum is a vital and accessible cultural resource for Penn State’s students, faculty and scholars, as well as for all visitors to and from the entire central Pennsylvania region. The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State is the largest art museum collection between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia and the most significant academic art museum in the state of Pennsylvania.

For more information, visit our website at. Museum hours are Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. 1498-99), the first work of art acquired for the museum using funds provided by its Friends membership group. Among the works on view is Dürer’s Lamentation (c. 18 and takes a rare look at the expressive achievements in the medium of printmaking by German Renaissance artist and worldwide name Albrecht Dürer, along with some of his students and contemporaries. Printmaking in the Age of Dürer, opened Jan.

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This is one in a series of American art exhibitions created through a multi-year, multi-institutional partnership formed by the Philadelphia Museum of Art as part of the Art Bridges Initiative. 15 and explores the decisive leap from figuration to abstraction in New York through a selection from the Palmer’s own collection and of major works on loan from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. “ An American Place tells the story of the coming of age of American art and the search for an authentic aesthetic rooted in America,” comments Assistant Director Joyce Robinson, who curated the exhibition and edited the 2013 catalogue of the Palmers’ then-private collection.Ī Way Through: Abstract Art of the 1940s, opened Jan. The title of the exhibition is borrowed from Alfred Stieglitz’s “An American Place,” one of several galleries the pioneering photographer established in the first half of the 20th century to support a core group of modernist American artists for nearly two decades. Assembled over more than 30 years, she and her husband, James, established a nationally renowned collection of American art that includes Ashcan portraits, scenes of everyday life, modernist explorations and an extensive representation of artists, demonstrating both the discerning inclusivity of their vision and the diverse breadth of the history of American art.

An American Place presents 59 paintings, works on paper and sculptures drawn from the bequest of lead philanthropist Barbara Palmer, who passed away in 2019.

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