Location: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Benjamin West, Penn’s Treaty with the Indians

by Monica Zimmerman, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Dr. Beth Harris

Thomas Birch, Fairmount Water Works

by Dr. Anna O. Marley and Dr. Steven Zucker

Picturing Spanish conquest in an era of U.S. expansion

Peter Frederick Rothermel, De Soto Raising the ...

by Dr. Anna O. Marley and Dr. Steven Zucker

An artist asks: war or healthcare?

Sue Coe, Aids won’t wait, the enemy ...
by Monica Zimmerman, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Dr. Beth Harris

"We have met the enemy and they are ours." The battle that turned the War of 1812

Thomas Birch, Perry’s Victory on Lake Erie
by Dr. Anna O. Marley and Dr. Steven Zucker

What couldn’t Peale do? He is shown as he saw himself: portraitist, naturalist, curator, and Enlightenment thinker.

Charles Willson Peale, The Artist in His ...
by Dr. Bryan Zygmont

Unusually early for an American artist, Vanderlyn trained in France—but Old World style didn’t sell in America.

John Vanderlyn, Ariadne Asleep on the Island ...
by Dr. Bryan Zygmont