Through February 18, 2024
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—through our recently redesigned American galleries. These galleries investigate 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. This long-term exhibition also introduces regular rotations of works on paper and textiles, allowing our galleries to change and grow alongside our community.
The third rotation of the art in these galleries, on view through February 18, 2024, introduces fifty new works ranging from whimsical embroidered owls to contemporary works by Willie Cole and Wendy Red Star. Other highlights will include new selections of work by Keith Haring, Harry Bertoia, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. These rotations help protect light-sensitive works from damage while also making more of our collections available to our community.
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- Wendy Red Star (American, Apsáalooke (Crow), born 1981), “Fall” from “The Four Seasons” Series, 2006, archival pigment print. Purchase: Priscilla Payne Hurd Endowment Fund, 2019. (2019.2.4)
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- Willie Cole (American, born 1955), “Home and Hearth,” 2011, screen print. Purchase: The Reverend and Mrs. Van S. Merle Smith, Jr. Endowment Fund, 2020. (2020.1.2)
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- Diné (Navajo), “Rug,” ca. 1920, cotton and wool. Gift of Hampton C. Randolph, Sr., 1984. (1984.38.3)
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- Eagle Book Store (Reading, Pennsylvania), “Certificate of Birth and Baptism for Beulah Aumen,” 1853, engraving with hand-coloring. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Kaplan, 2009. (2009.6.83).
Featured image at top:
Installation photo of Trexler Gallery
The New 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
Duggan & Marcon, Inc.
Additional support is provided by
The Bernard and Audrey Berman Foundation
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