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Rare Works on Loan to the Museum

Rare Works on Loan to the Museum

The Art Museum has received on long-term loan from a private collection two rare and intriguing works of art from the Early Modern period. The painting from Central Europe and bust from Italy enhance the Museum’s display and represent aspects...
Exhibition Preview | The Artist Sees Differently: Modern Still Lifes from The Phillips Collection

Exhibition Preview | The Artist Sees Differently: Modern Still Lifes from The Phillips Collection

This exhibition of thirty-eight paintings from the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, founded by the collector Duncan Phillips and his wife, the painter Marjorie Acker Phillips, offers a survey of the modernist still life, with works by European and American...
Clarence H. White

Clarence H. White

Based on major collections of Clarence H. White’s prints and archives owned by the Princeton University Art Museum and the Library of Congress, and supplemented by loans from other museums and private collections, Clarence H. White and His World highlights...
The Rouge: Michael Kenna

The Rouge: Michael Kenna

It is with Kenna’s images of the Rouge that many of the artist’s longstanding photographic concerns—photographing under low-light conditions or at night, an interest in the strong contrast between the linearity of the built environment and the effacing atmosphere around...
Collecting African American Art

Collecting African American Art

In acquiring prints and drawings by African American artists, the goal has been to provide a rich cross section of figurative and abstract images that explore the black experience from a variety of perspectives, past and present.
Perino del Vaga’s Adoration of the Shepherds

Perino del Vaga’s Adoration of the Shepherds

A magnificent sixteenth-century painting by the Italian master Perino del Vaga— The Adoration of the Shepherds— recently entered the Museum’s collections as a gift from George R. Goldner, Graduate School Class of 1972. One of the few works by this...
New Research on the Art of the Northwest Coast

New Research on the Art of the Northwest Coast

The Princeton University Art Museum has in its care a small but exceptional collection of Northwest Coast Native art. Thanks to a few prominent individuals and a well-funded survey expedition, the collection grew from nothing to nearly eight hundred objects...
Rouge: Michael Kenna

Rouge: Michael Kenna

The British photographer Michael Kenna began his own work with the Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan, in 1992 as an homage to Sheeler. What Kenna has called “pilgrimages” to sites where other photographers have worked helped him develop his own...
Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895–1925

Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895–1925

One of the most successful and influential self-taught amateur photographers was Clarence H. White (1871–1925), who rose from modest origins in Newark, Ohio, to become an internationally known art photographer and teacher. Clarence H. White and His World celebrates the...
The Art of Calligraphy

The Art of Calligraphy

The Art Museum’s collection of Chinese calligraphy may be considered one of the finest outside of Asia. Its formation is primarily the legacy of John B. Elliott and Wen C. Fong, two Princetonians who first met as members of the...