September 13 – December 9, 2022 The Fleming Museum is pleased to announce the loan of an extremely rare pair of portraits of African-American sitters whose heritage can be traced back to the Philadelphia’s first mayor, Humphrey Morrey (b. c. 1650, England; d. 1716, Philadelphia), appointed to his office by William Penn in 1691. Painted …
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Call and Response: Personal Reflections on the Fleming Collection
September 13 – December 9, 2022 In a unique debut collaboration between the Howard Center Arts Collective and the Fleming Museum, Arts Collective artists have created work inspired by a piece from the museum collections. Each of the 16 exhibiting members used the museum’s online collections database to identify artwork of personal interest, from which …
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Rockwell Kent: Prints from the Ralf C. Nemec Collection
September 13 – December 9, 2022 Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) was an author, illustrator, painter, and printmaker whose iconic graphic style decorated posters, magazine covers, advertisements, fine art publishing ventures, deluxe illustrated books, and personal bookplates. This exhibition features 49 prints drawn from the collection of Ralf C. Nemec, the largest assemblage of Rockwell Kent prints …
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