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Masterpiece of Impressionism by Mary Cassatt Joins Collection of Princeton University Art Museum<

Masterpiece of Impressionism by Mary Cassatt Joins Collection of Princeton University Art Museum

The Princeton University Art Museum has acquired Mary Cassatt’s Little Girl in a Large Red Hat (ca. 1881), an exceptionally insightful portrayal of young girlhood and a masterpiece of Impressionist painting.
Design for New Princeton University Art Museum Announced<

Design for New Princeton University Art Museum Announced

The Princeton University Art Museum today revealed the design for its new building embodying flexibility, openness and connectivity to break down barriers to participation and invite entry by all.
Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings opens March 7<

Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings opens March 7

Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings is the first exhibition to examine essential but underestimated aspects of the revolutionary French painter’s work: his profound interest in rocks and geological formations, and his use of such structures to shape the compositions...
Life Magazine and the Power of Photography Debuts at the Princeton University Art Museum Feb 22–June 21, 2020 <

Life Magazine and the Power of Photography Debuts at the Princeton University Art Museum Feb 22–June 21, 2020

From its groundbreaking launch issue in 1936 through the conclusion of its weekly run in 1972, Life magazine profoundly shaped how its readers viewed themselves – and the world.
Hugh Hayden Sculpture Installation Examines American History and Identity<

Hugh Hayden Sculpture Installation Examines American History and Identity

Artist Hugh Hayden explores history, identity and the creation of the America we know today through a series of site-responsive installations at Art@Bainbridge, the Princeton University Art Museum’s gallery space in downtown Princeton featuring the work of emerging contemporary artists.
Chris Newth Named Associate Director for Collections and Exhibitions at the Princeton University Art Museum<

Chris Newth Named Associate Director for Collections and Exhibitions at the Princeton University Art Museum

The Princeton University Art Museum has appointed Chris Newth as associate director for collections and exhibitions.
Life Magazine's Photographic Storytelling Process Explored in Compelling New Exhibition<

Life Magazine's Photographic Storytelling Process Explored in Compelling New Exhibition

Co-organized by the Princeton University Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Life Magazine and the Power of Photography is the first museum exhibition to take an in-depth look at the photographs that made Life so revolutionary, by...
Princeton University Art Museum Adds New Retail Location on Nassau Street in Historic Downtown Princeton<

Princeton University Art Museum Adds New Retail Location on Nassau Street in Historic Downtown Princeton

The Princeton University Art Museum will open a new, second location of its Museum Store on Palmer Square in support of its mission of bringing the visual arts to the local and regional communities.
Princeton University Art Museum Mounts a Major Exhibition Devoted to an Essential but Understudied Aspect of the Art of Paul Cézanne<

Princeton University Art Museum Mounts a Major Exhibition Devoted to an Essential but Understudied Aspect of the Art of Paul Cézanne

Throughout his 40-year career, the revolutionary French painter Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) made canvases that take rock formations as their principal subjects. Although they are among the artist’s most extraordinary landscapes, such paintings of geological forms have never been the focus...
Public Art by Artist, Designer, and Environmentalist Maya Lin Debuts at Princeton University in Fall 2019<

Public Art by Artist, Designer, and Environmentalist Maya Lin Debuts at Princeton University in Fall 2019

Two major new commissions by renowned artist Maya Lin will be dedicated this fall on the grounds of the Lewis Center for the Arts complex at Princeton University. The two works, The Princeton Line, an undulating sculpted line of molded...

Annual Reports

Museum in the News

Princeton home’s history of slavery explored in new contemporary art exhibition

Peter Crimmins
WHYY, January 20, 2020
Un portrait de Mary Cassatt pour Princeton

Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges
La Tribune del' Art, February 19, 2021
Acquisitions of the month: January 2021

Apollo, February 13, 2021
Treasures of American art bear witness to a historic insurrection

Karl Kusserow
National Geographic, January 13, 2021
Cézanne's Hard Truths

David Anfam
Hyperallergic, October 31, 2020

Press Room

Recent Press Releases

Masterpiece of Impressionism by Mary Cassatt Joins Collection of Princeton University Art Museum

Design for New Princeton University Art Museum Announced

Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings opens March 7

Life Magazine and the Power of Photography Debuts at the Princeton University Art Museum Feb 22–June 21, 2020

Hugh Hayden Sculpture Installation Examines American History and Identity

Chris Newth Named Associate Director for Collections and Exhibitions at the Princeton University Art Museum

Life Magazine's Photographic Storytelling Process Explored in Compelling New Exhibition

Princeton University Art Museum Adds New Retail Location on Nassau Street in Historic Downtown Princeton

Princeton University Art Museum Mounts a Major Exhibition Devoted to an Essential but Understudied Aspect of the Art of Paul Cézanne

Public Art by Artist, Designer, and Environmentalist Maya Lin Debuts at Princeton University in Fall 2019

Annual Reports

Museum in the News