The Philadelphia Museum of Art rebrand went too far (Philadelphia Art Museum - just no) and yet not far enough.
Yo, it's Philly - what they really need is a griffin mascot...and cheaper tickets. #philadelphiamuseumofart
The title “Mary Jane” carries a double meaning like a person’s name, but also the classic strap shoes that signal childhood and “proper” presentation. American artist Noah Davis gives that presentation dignity without sentimentality depicting a young Black girl standing with clasped hands and steady look directly at us. Behind her, a dense, mottled backdrop of pale greens and blacks like camouflage could mean both protection and threat at once: a world that can swallow you up, and a pattern you learn to navigate. She has deep brown skin and a calm, direct gaze. A white headscarf frames her face. She wears a white collared blouse under a light-blue vest, and a striped tan-and-white pinafore or apron over a pale-blue skirt. Her hands are clasped neatly at her waist. White knee socks with a couple faint stripes rise above black Mary Jane shoes. A dark horizontal band of floor at the bottom, grounds her small figure in a quiet, contained space. In 2008, Davis was deepening a practice that treated everyday Black life as worthy of the grand scale of painting and linking the intimate to the historical. His belief that art should be for everyone later shaped the Underground Museum (cofounded with Karon Davis). For the Philadelphia presentation of his retrospective, curator Eleanor Nairne said, “On every encounter, I am struck again by the potency of Noah Davis’s work.” The potency here is almost quiet, as we take in a child seen clearly, held at the center, and refusing to be blurred into the background.
“Mary Jane” by Noah Davis (American) - Oil and acrylic on canvas / 2008 - Philadelphia Museum of Art (Pennsylvania) #WomenInArt #PhiladelphiaMuseumOfArt #NoahDavis
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first saw the jacket before she purchased this one for herself. #Fashionhistory #ootd #PalaisGalliera #philadelphiamuseumofart
American artist Wanda Gág made this self-portrait at Cream Hill, a rural retreat in West Cornwall, Connecticut, where she often escaped city life around 1930. A tall wooden dresser dominates a narrow room, its arched mirror framing the artist’s reflected body. In the glass, we see a light-skinned woman with a close-cropped bob and snug cap sitting sideways on a bed, torso turned toward us, one knee bent forward. She wears a patterned slip that clings to her angled figure, bare arms and legs modeled with dense, rippling ink lines. Her expression is concentrated and slightly wary. Outside the mirror, the room holds only objects like a bright window at left filtered through sheer, wind-ruffled curtains, dark walls closing in at right, small bottles, a box, and a shallow dish scattered across the dresser’s side shelves. The floorboards and a striped rug run toward us in wavering perspective, their heavy cross-hatching making the whole space quiver between the everyday and the uncanny. Long celebrated as a pioneering “New Woman,” Gág supported herself as an illustrator, printmaker, and author (later famed for “Millions of Cats”) while openly embracing feminist independence. Here, she claims a private bedroom as studio and stage, turning a practical piece of furniture into a portal where interior décor, landscape light, and artistic labor converge. Museum writers note that she pictures herself actively engaged in drawing this very work, folding process and product into one looping reflection. The tilted walls, vibrating marks, and doubled space suggest a life in which she made art structures both her surroundings and her sense of self to echo her motto “Draw to live and live to draw.”
“Self-Portrait in Dresser Mirror: Cream Hill” by Wanda Gág (American) – Black ink applied with brush over traces of graphite on paper / 1930 – Philadelphia Museum of Art (Pennsylvania) #WomenInArt #artText #art #AmericanArtist #1930s #WandaGág #WandaGag #Gág #SelfPortrait #PhiladelphiaMuseumOfArt
museum collections coordination, leading it to become the biggest display of Worth gowns in one place, probably since his workshop was in operation. Both today's and yesterday's #ootd were from #philadelphiamuseumofart #Fashionhistory
The flat front and train in the back was a new style that replaced the circular crinolines of the 1850s and would transform into the bustle of the 1870s-80s. #fashionhistory #PalaisGalliera #philadelphiamuseumofart
A young, light-skinned woman stands in a narrow Parisian doorway, paused mid-step as she prepares to go out. She wears a dark, gleaming silk day dress with a fitted bodice and sweeping skirt, its surface catching the light in soft velvety folds. Wrapped around her shoulders is a luxuriant cashmere shawl, densely patterned with curving paisley forms in reds, golds, and cool blues that spill down her front like a second garment. Her brown hair is close to her head, framing a composed, thoughtful face turned slightly toward us, her gaze lowered but aware as she looks back over her right shoulder. One hand rests on a bright metal door handle, holding the threshold between interior and street. At her feet, a small white lapdog, Fido, looks up attentively on the polished floor, its pink ribbon collar echoing the refinement of its mistress. Behind them, pale walls, a framed picture, and the edge of an upholstered seat suggest an elegant yet tightly bounded domestic space. Belgian artist Alfred Stevens turns this moment of departure into a quiet meditation on modern femininity under the French Second Empire. Wealth and status are signaled less by jewelry than by textiles, especially the coveted Kashmiri-style shawl that dominates the composition and speaks to the reach of global trade into Parisian interiors. The woman becomes almost a living mannequin for luxury, yet her slight hesitation and inward-looking expression suggest emotions that cannot be read from fashion alone. Painted in 1859, soon after Stevens settled permanently in Paris, the work marks his shift from earlier social-realist subjects to the intimate genre scenes of elegant women. Trained in the realist tradition and inspired by Dutch and Flemish painters, he brought enamel-smooth precision to scenes of contemporary life, using interiors and clothing to reveal social codes. Here, a bourgeois woman’s movements are carefully staged, even as she stands on the brink walking into an unseen modern city.
“Departing for the Promenade (Will You Go Out with Me, Fido?)” by Alfred-Émile-Léopold Stevens (Belgian) - Oil on canvas / 1859 - Philadelphia Museum of Art (Pennsylvania) #WomenInArt #DogArt #artText #art #AlfredStevens #BlueskyArt #PhiladelphiaMuseumOfArt #19thCenturyArt #BelgianArtist #FashionArt
🌀 Ongoing: A Pleasant Madness: Surrealism at the Julien Levy Gallery
Philadelphia Museum of Art | Oct 11, 2025 – Feb 16, 2026
Explore Surrealism’s rise in 1930s New York through Levy’s visionary gallery.
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Wandered my way to and through the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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There are so many My Chemical Romance fans at the Philadelphia Museum of Art today that the guy in coat check asked if we were a tour group
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View at Philadelphia from the top of the Rocky Steps. These steps were weak, Rocky should have trained on the McKinley steps in Canton, OH, he would have knocked Apollo out in the first round if he had.
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George Washington statue at the Philadelphia Museum Of Art
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Running the #RockySteps at the #PhiladelphiaMuseumOfArt.
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Solid room of Twombs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art 🤌🏽🧐
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Shows a urinal, turned on end, signed by R Mutt, 1917. This was entered by Marcel Duchamp into an art exhibition, whereby it was promptly turned down as not art.
NYC in 2026 it is then. Marcel Duchamp retrospective is not to be missed. Maybe in Philly? Paris sounds good too. Wish it was coming to Chicago.
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Leopoldo Mendez “Deportation to Death” a linocut depiction of the trains full of Jews Illustration from The Black Book of Nazi Terror in Europe 1942
Florence Kent Hunter “Jewish refugees” Lithograph Refugees in a rustic landscape, with the wind blowing the tent & the people huddled together for shelter 1948-49
Marc Chagall “In the Night” Painted from memory, showing newlyweds embracing in a nocturnal scene of Vitebsk, Belarus, Chagall’s hometown. This is one of a series of Chagall’s wedding portraits with his wife, Bella. She died prematurely from a viral throat infection in 1944. 1943
Saw an exhibit of art & design in the 1940s.
There was music piped in as we looked at furniture design, fashion design, & some Black artists’ pieces. Then we rounded a corner & were faced with creepy WW2 propaganda, uniform design, & this. 😭 #generationaltrauma
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Fuck yeah, Ben Franklin & an allegory of the Schuykill River!
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
One of the few versions outside Europe.
You feel the heat of the yellows and the depth of the loneliness behind them.
A quiet storm in a vase.
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More than a museum—
the Philadelphia Museum of Art is a temple to beauty, history, and motion.
Even its steps are legendary.
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A brick wall hosts 5 French sculpted and painted vases and urns influenced by Japanese style and subject matter : cranes, bamboo, florals. The bamboo urn is overflowing with fruit tree blossoms; a vase decorated with single chrysanthemums holds an enormous wild rose of a similar shape; a blue parrot flies across the picture plane, and a little girl eating an apple (sculpted but unpainted) sits under the fruit blooms.
Impression de la japonisme
Photos taken at the #PhiladelphiaMuseumofArt, found #flowers, #bird, & brick texture. #analogcollage
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Time for another #editingchallenge this time we have a scene from inside the #philadelphiamuseumofart so calling all #photographersofbluesky #photographers go ahead and give this shot an edit!
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