Opening August 27, 2022
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 renovated and redesigned American galleries. This reinstallation investigates how trade, colonization, and the migration of people and ideas have shaped our nation’s culture.
The New American Galleries will reimagine much of the Museum’s first floor. Recent acquisitions, including contemporary art and works by African American, Latinx, Latin American, and Indigenous artists, will play a key role in this transformation. This long-term exhibition will also introduce regular rotations of works on paper and textiles, allowing our galleries to change and grow alongside our community.
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- Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, Girl Balancing Knowledge III, 2017, fiberglass mannequin, Dutch wax printed cotton textile, books, globe, leather, steel baseplate. Allentown Art Museum: purchase:, Priscilla Payne Hurd Endowment Fund, 2017. (2018.1 a-d)
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- Iroquois, Reticule, ca. 1900, velvet, leather, glass beads, sequins. Allentown Art Museum: Gift of Wendy Ellsworth, 2017. (2017.24.26)
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- Rufino Tamayo (Mexican, 1899-1991), Perro de Luna (Moon Dog) from the Mexican Masters Suite, 1973, lithograph. Allentown Art Museum: purchase, Gift of Paul K. Kania, 2018. (2018.20.1)
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- American, Child in Red Dress, 1800s, oil on Masonite, transferred from panel. Allentown Art Museum: Gift of Estate of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1981. (1981.19.6)
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- Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke/Crow, b. 1981), Indian Summer from The Four Seasons series, 2006, archival pigment print. Allentown Art Museum: purchase, Priscilla Payne Hurd Endowment Fund, 2019. (2019.2.3)l: 0
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- Rigo Peralta (American, b. Dominican Republic 1970), Doña Negra, 2016, acrylic on linen. Allentown Art Museum: purchase, The Ardath Rodale Art Acquisition Fund, 2019. (2019.7)
Featured image at top:
Marcus Jahmal (American, b. 1990), Living off the Land, 2021, oil on canvas. Allentown Art Museum: Gift of Stephen and Cynthia Ketchum, New York, 2022
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