August 29, 2024, through February 2025
Trexler, Butz, and Goodman Galleries and Trexler Hall
Explore more than 150 works of American art—and their connections to both local and global artistic communities—in our American galleries. This ongoing exhibition investigates how trade, colonization, and the migration of people and ideas have shaped our nation’s culture. Recent acquisitions, including contemporary art and works by African American, Latinx, Latin American, and Indigenous artists, play a key role in this narrative.
Possibly Australian, Blouse, ca. 1940-45, printed rayon crepe. Gift of Kate Fowler Merle Smith, 1978. (1978.26.519)
Highlights include works by Faith Ringgold, José Clemente Orozco, and John Marin, as well as a powerful anti-apartheid drawing by Keith Haring. Other noteworthy additions are Food for Thought, a 1936 tablecloth that features some ninety-eight political sayings; World War II propaganda fashions; and a rare hand-colored photograph of an 1806 embroidered family portrait.
Upcoming: the next group of new works in the American Galleries will go on view Feburary 27, 2025
The American Galleries are supported in part by the generosity of Paul K. Kania; The National Endowment for the Arts; The Society of the Arts; Alvin H. Butz Inc.; Amaranth Foundation, Joan Miller Moran, Trustee; Burkholder’s Heating & Air Conditioning Inc.; Discover Lehigh Valley; and Duggan & Marcon Inc.
Additional support is provided by the Bernard and Audrey Berman Foundation and the Leon C. and June W. Holt Endowment.
The Video Art Series is made possible by the generosity of Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz.