Archived - Shows And Events

​March 26 – June 12, 2016 - This exhibition highlights the 2008 gift of Renninger's archive to the Museum including a treasure trove of early sketchbooks, scrapbooks, and travel studies that trace her artistic and professional development. Katharine Steele Renninger (1925-2004), a devoted native of Bucks County, dedicated her career to preserving in paint the achievements of its citizens: the hone...

March 18 - July 9, 2017 - This exhibition incorporates more than 60 photographs from the archives of Condé Nast, as well additional photographs, paintings, and costumes on loan from leading museum collections. Vignettes of costume, photographs, and paintings will enable visitors to fully explore how the dramatic viewpoints, rhythmic patterning, and abstract compositions seen in his photographs and...

March 13 – June 26, 2016 - The exhibition will highlight fashion designers and retailers that influenced fashion choices throughout and beyond the mid-Atlantic region. Philadelphia in Style celebrates this sartorial legacy with a stunning display of dresses, wedding gowns, shoes, hats and other items spanning a century of high fashion.

February 20 – August 7, 2016 - The exhibition also celebrates the return of Garber’s masterpiece Tanis to the Michener for a six-month engagement. Garber in Spring celebrates the artist's masterful treatment of the season in key works created in the first half of the 20th century. Works will include Michener visitor favorites The Studio Wall and Up the Cutalossa alongside notable paintings held in...

February 20 – May 29, 2016 - in this exhibition Holly Trostle Brigham takes on that challenge in seven self-portraits in which she assumes the guise of artists of the past such as Frida Kahlo, Artemesia Gentileschi, and Tamara de Lempicka to remind us of their important stories. Brigham looks to her academic past as a student at one of the “seven sisters" colleges for women, Smith College, connect...