James A. Michener Art Museum

photo by Jeff Hurwitz

Doylestown, PA

215-340-9800

http://www.michenerartmuseum.org

 

Resource Library articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:

Katharine Steele Renninger: Craft, Commitment, Community (4/15/16)

Katharine Steele Renninger: Craft, Commitment, Community; essay by Liz K. Sheehan (4/15/16)

Holly Trostle Brigham: Sisters and Goddesses (3/15/16)

 

Nelson Shanks: A Brush with Reality (7/11/13)

Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity (4/18/13)

 

To Stir, Inform and Inflame: The Art of Tony Auth (7/17/12)

Have Gags Will Travel: The Life and Times of a New York Cartoonist (4/17/12)

 

Mavis Smith: Hidden Realities (11/22/11)

The Painterly Voice: Bucks County's Fertile Ground (11/9/11)

So Bravely and So Well: The Life and Art of William T. Trego (4/19/11)

Facing Out, Facing In: Figurative Works from the Michener Art Museum Collection (2/3/11)

 

Bucks County and the Philadelphia Sketch Club (9/13/10)

An Independent Spirit: The Art and Life of R.A.D. Miller (6/4/09)

Shopkeepers, Prizefighters, Waitresses and Thieves: Images of American Life at the Michener Art Museum (5/28/09)

 

Norman Rockwell in the 1940s: A View of the American Homefront and Charles Hargens: American Illustrator (12/14/07)

Elsie Driggs: The Quick and the Classical (11/7/07)

The Holy Experiment: Violet Oakley Mural Studies (11/6/07)

Norman Rockwell in the 1940s: A View of the American Homefront and Charles Hargens: American Illustrator (8/21/07)

Fire and Ice: Marine Corps Combat Art from Afghanistan and Iraq / Soldier (6/21/07)

 

Wolfgang Roth: Art of the Theater (12/5/06)

Daniel Garber: Romantic Realist (10/26/06)

Form Radiating Life: The Paintings of Charles Rosen (9/6/05)

Duane Hanson: Real Life (8/24/06)

Diane Burko: Flow (6/20/06)

Poetry in Design: The Art of Harry Leith-Ross (4/25/06)

 

Radical Vision: The Revolution in American Photography (12/14/05)

Fashioning Art: Handbags by Judith Leiber (12/1/05)

Ansel Adams: Celebration of Genius: text by Jeanne Verhulst (11/15/05)

Louis Bosa: A Keen Eye and a Kind Heart (10/26/05)

New Orleans: A Beloved City (10/25/05)

Romare Bearden: Enchanter in Time (10/13/05)

Paul Keene: His Art and Legacy (10/13/05)

Art in 2 Worlds: The Native American Fine Art Invitational (8/2/05)

Emily Brown: The Evolving Landscape (5/24/05)

The Art of Warner Brothers Cartoons (3/9/05)

The Visual Literature of Bernarda Bryson-Shahn: Developing a Social Conscience (1/18/05)

 

The Contemporary Eye (12/23/04)

Red Grooms: Selections from the Graphic Work (9/29/04)

Selma Bortner: Body of Work (9/29/04)

Red, Hot & Blue: A Salute to American Musicals (7/12/04)

The Cities, the Towns, the Crowds: The Paintings of Robert Spencer (6/1/04)

Edward W. Redfield: Just Values and Fine Seeing (4/22/04)

Rock On! The Art of the Music Poster from the 60s and 70s (1/21/04)

 

Emmet Gowin: Changing the Earth (12/23/03)

Randall Exon: A Quiet Light (2/3/03)

 

Pennsylvania Impressionism, co-published by the Michener Art Museum and the University of Pennsylvania Press (10/16/02)

Roy C. Nuse (1885-1975) (1/30/02)

 

Bucks County Landscape Paintings Acquired by Michener Art Museum (10/25/01)

Solowey Unseen: Works by Ben Solowey from the Collection; essay by Leo Mazow (4/9/01)

The Gift of Sympathy: The Art of Maxo Vanka (3/16/01)

 

The Lenfest Exhibition of Pennsylvania Impressionism (12/16/00)

In Line With Al Hirschfeld: An Al Hirschfeld Retrospective (10/1/00)

The Secret World of Celia Reisman (10/1/00)

 

Intimate Vistas: The Poetic Landscapes of William Langson Lathrop (10/13/99)

Michener Art Museum Presents "An Edward Hicks Sampler" and "Picturing Washington: Icons and Images of America's Founding Father" (9/18/99)

The Philadelphia Ten, 1917-1945: A Women's Artist Group (6/9/99)

From Soup Cans to Nuts: Prints by Andy Warhol (6/9/99)

 

Edward Redfield at Michener Art Museum (12/18/98)

A Legacy Preserved: The First Decade of Collecting at the Michener Art Museum (12/18/98)


The James A. Michener Art Museum is accredited by the American Association of Museums and is located at 138 S. Pine Street in Doylestown, PA 18901. The museum collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits American art, with a focus on art of the Bucks County region. The museum presents changing exhibitions that explore a variety of artistic expressions, and offers a diverse program of educational activities that seeks to develop a lifelong involvement in the arts as well as nurture a wide range of audiences. The museum also seeks to educate its community about nationally and internationally known Bucks County artists of all creative disciplines. Please see hours and admission fees on the museum's website.


 

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