Box 48

Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series:

In July of 1985, the Philadelphia Museum of Art acquired over 43,000 European prints from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts through an exchange and purchase with funds Muriel and Philip Berman. A year later, Ellen Jacobowitz, Acting Curator of Prints, organized an exhibition of old master prints selected from the recent acquisition. This subseries includes information on the exhibition as well as records regarding the earlier acquisition.

Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series:

In July of 1985, the Philadelphia Museum of Art acquired over 43,000 European prints from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts through an exchange and purchase with funds Muriel and Philip Berman. A year later, Ellen Jacobowitz, Acting Curator of Prints, organized an exhibition of old master prints selected from the recent acquisition. This subseries includes information on the exhibition as well as records regarding the earlier acquisition.

Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series:

In July of 1985, the Philadelphia Museum of Art acquired over 43,000 European prints from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts through an exchange and purchase with funds Muriel and Philip Berman. A year later, Ellen Jacobowitz, Acting Curator of Prints, organized an exhibition of old master prints selected from the recent acquisition. This subseries includes information on the exhibition as well as records regarding the earlier acquisition.

Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series: Benjamin West (1738-1820) was the first American artist to win international acclaim. This exhibition of 37 paintings and 50 drawings served as a comprehensive survey of his career and included two of the earliest known portraits by West, painted in his native Pennsylvania, a version of his first historical commission in England, and one of his best-known history paintings, William Penn's Treaty with the Indians. Darrel L. Sewell, the Robert L. McNeil Curator of American Art; Joseph J....

Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series: Benjamin West (1738-1820) was the first American artist to win international acclaim. This exhibition of 37 paintings and 50 drawings served as a comprehensive survey of his career and included two of the earliest known portraits by West, painted in his native Pennsylvania, a version of his first historical commission in England, and one of his best-known history paintings, William Penn's Treaty with the Indians. Darrel L. Sewell, the Robert L. McNeil Curator of American Art; Joseph J....

Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series: Benjamin West (1738-1820) was the first American artist to win international acclaim. This exhibition of 37 paintings and 50 drawings served as a comprehensive survey of his career and included two of the earliest known portraits by West, painted in his native Pennsylvania, a version of his first historical commission in England, and one of his best-known history paintings, William Penn's Treaty with the Indians. Darrel L. Sewell, the Robert L. McNeil Curator of American Art; Joseph J....

Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series: Benjamin West (1738-1820) was the first American artist to win international acclaim. This exhibition of 37 paintings and 50 drawings served as a comprehensive survey of his career and included two of the earliest known portraits by West, painted in his native Pennsylvania, a version of his first historical commission in England, and one of his best-known history paintings, William Penn's Treaty with the Indians. Darrel L. Sewell, the Robert L. McNeil Curator of American Art; Joseph J....

Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series: Benjamin West (1738-1820) was the first American artist to win international acclaim. This exhibition of 37 paintings and 50 drawings served as a comprehensive survey of his career and included two of the earliest known portraits by West, painted in his native Pennsylvania, a version of his first historical commission in England, and one of his best-known history paintings, William Penn's Treaty with the Indians. Darrel L. Sewell, the Robert L. McNeil Curator of American Art; Joseph J....

Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series: Benjamin West (1738-1820) was the first American artist to win international acclaim. This exhibition of 37 paintings and 50 drawings served as a comprehensive survey of his career and included two of the earliest known portraits by West, painted in his native Pennsylvania, a version of his first historical commission in England, and one of his best-known history paintings, William Penn's Treaty with the Indians. Darrel L. Sewell, the Robert L. McNeil Curator of American Art; Joseph J....

Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series: Benjamin West (1738-1820) was the first American artist to win international acclaim. This exhibition of 37 paintings and 50 drawings served as a comprehensive survey of his career and included two of the earliest known portraits by West, painted in his native Pennsylvania, a version of his first historical commission in England, and one of his best-known history paintings, William Penn's Treaty with the Indians. Darrel L. Sewell, the Robert L. McNeil Curator of American Art; Joseph J....