Ongoing
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 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.
Rotation 2 brings more than sixty new works into the American galleries, ranging from seventeenth-century Turkish textiles to contemporary art by Alison Saar and Stephen Antonakos. As part of our dynamic program of rotations, these changes help protect light-sensitive works from damage while also making more of our collections available to our community.
Rotation 2: on view March 2 through August 2023
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- Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) for Euro-American market, “Purse,” ca. 1885, cotton, glass beads. Gift of Wendy Ellsworth, 2017. (2017.24.25)
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- Mildred T. Johnstone (American, 1900–1988) with Pablo Burchard (Chilean, 1875–1964), “Alice in a Wonderland of Steel,” 1949, linen plain weave with wool, angora and metallic thread (Lurex) tent stitch, stem stitch, French knots, straight stitch, and satin stitch embroidery Gift of Mildred T. Johnstone, 1977. (1977.19.2)
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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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- 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:
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