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Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series: Soon after the breakout of World War I, Jean Crotti emigrated from Paris to New York and there met Suzanne Duchamp, sister of Marcel Duchamp and Crotti's future wife. This exhibition featured 69 examples of the couple's work from their associations with the Dada movement to Crotti's invention of "TABU" in the 1920s. Originally organized by and exhibited at the Kunsthalle Bern and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Mark Rosenthal, Curator of Twentieth-Century Art, installed the travelling...

Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series: Carl Strehlke, Assistant curator of the Johnson Collection, organized an exhibition of 24 fourteenth- and fifteenth-century narrative paintings from the golden age of Sienese art. In addition to items culled from the permanent collection, a private collector lent a pair of panels by Pietro Lorezetti to complete the center section of an altarpiece entitled "Madonna and Child" acquired by the Museum in 1910. Two years later, the museum purchased the panels, thus reuniting the seperated...

Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series:

The Whitman Sampler Collection was originally exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1971. In the 1980s, a selection of about 35 American and European samplers dating from the seventeenth-century to the twentieth-century travelled to various location throughout the United States. Contents of this subseries include travel schedules, notes, and memoranda.

Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series:

The Whitman Sampler Collection was originally exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1971. In the 1980s, a selection of about 35 American and European samplers dating from the seventeenth-century to the twentieth-century travelled to various location throughout the United States. Contents of this subseries include travel schedules, notes, and memoranda.

Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series: In 1984, the Philadelphia Museum of Art collaborated with the Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz of West Berlin, Germany and the Royal Academy of Arts in London, England to organize and exhibit an exhibition of 118 Dutch genre paintings. Peter Sutton, Associate Curator of European Paintings before 1900, installed the exhibition in Philadelphia and wrote the award-winning catalogue that accompanied the show. This exhibition was made possible by a grant from Mobil...

Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series: In 1984, the Philadelphia Museum of Art collaborated with the Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz of West Berlin, Germany and the Royal Academy of Arts in London, England to organize and exhibit an exhibition of 118 Dutch genre paintings. Peter Sutton, Associate Curator of European Paintings before 1900, installed the exhibition in Philadelphia and wrote the award-winning catalogue that accompanied the show. This exhibition was made possible by a grant from Mobil...

Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series: In 1984, the Philadelphia Museum of Art collaborated with the Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz of West Berlin, Germany and the Royal Academy of Arts in London, England to organize and exhibit an exhibition of 118 Dutch genre paintings. Peter Sutton, Associate Curator of European Paintings before 1900, installed the exhibition in Philadelphia and wrote the award-winning catalogue that accompanied the show. This exhibition was made possible by a grant from Mobil...

Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series: In 1984, the Philadelphia Museum of Art collaborated with the Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz of West Berlin, Germany and the Royal Academy of Arts in London, England to organize and exhibit an exhibition of 118 Dutch genre paintings. Peter Sutton, Associate Curator of European Paintings before 1900, installed the exhibition in Philadelphia and wrote the award-winning catalogue that accompanied the show. This exhibition was made possible by a grant from Mobil...