Woodmere Art Museum

Woodmere Art Museum
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Website	Woodmereartmuseum.org

Woodmere Art Museum, located in the

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has a collection of paintings, prints, sculpture and photographs focusing on artists from the Delaware Valley and includes works by Thomas Pollock Anshutz, Severo Antonelli, Jasper Francis Cropsey (The Spirit of Peace), Joan Wadleigh Curran, Daniel Garber, Edward Moran, Violet Oakley, Herbert Pullinger, Edward Willis Redfield, Nelson Shanks, Jessie Willcox Smith, Benjamin West (The Fatal Wounding of Sir Philip Sidney), Philip Jamison, Barbara Bullock and N. C. Wyeth (Anthony and Mr. Bonnyfeather).^[1]

The collection includes the Violet Oakley lunette paintings of The Child and Tradition, Youth and the Arts, and Man and Science.^[2]

Classes

Woodmere provides art classes for adults and children and conducts a variety of special events and exhibitions including gallery talks, field trips, lectures, concerts and an annual juried exhibition.

History

The museum was opened in 1940, founded by Charles Knox Smith (1845–1916), an oil and mining businessman, in his will. Smith was born in the

Kensington

neighborhood of Philadelphia and began his career as a grocer's boy and as an oil wagon driver. He rose to become a partner in that oil firm and subsequently invested in his own oil brokerage and a gold and silver mining company in Mexico.

Smith's collection of paintings, sculpture and antiques form the base of the permanent collection. It is housed in his Victorian mansion, Woodmere, to which Smith had added large exhibition spaces.

Collection highlights

Sailing before a Gale (undated), by Alfred Thompson Bricher
The Pink Sash (1898), by Mary Cassatt
Sunset in the Berkshire Hills (1857), by Frederic Edwin Church
The Spirit of Peace (1851), by Jasper Francis Cropsey
Fruit and Flowers (undated), by David de Noter [nl]
Columbus and the Egg (1847), by Johann Geyer
A Dream of Italy (undated), by
William Louis Sonntag Sr.
The Fatal Wounding of Sir Philip Sidney (1805), by Benjamin West

References

External links

Media related to Woodmere Art Museum at Wikimedia Commons

Exhibitions at Woodmere

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[wam-1] Woodmere Art Museum Official Site

[oakley-2] Building the House of Wisdom: A Closer Look at Violet Oakley, August 9, 2011

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