The Pennsylvania Landscape in Impressionism and Contemporary Art

Among the strengths of Woodmere’s collection is work by painters known today as the Pennsylvania Impressionists. Through roughly 70 works, this exhibition demonstrates how these artists explored the Pennsylvania landscape as a subject and investigated ideas that continue to resonate in the visual expression of contemporary art in Philadelphia. 

Juxtapositions of paintings and works in other media will reveal how artistic practice has evolved and social context has become urgent in ways that could not have been imagined in the past. The exhibition also reveals how a great diversity of Philadelphia artists have focused on the landscape as a powerful metaphor.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website 

Image: Hill Country (detail), 1949, by Walter Elmer Schofield (Gift of Sydney E. and Seymour Schofield, 1949)