The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is a museum and private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1805, it is the longest continuously operating art museum and art school in the U
The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Center City Philadelphia
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' 1806 building featured in an 1809 engraving
Share of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, issued in May 1860
PAFA's 1845 building from a photograph, c. 1870
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. The main museum building was completed in 1928 on Fairmount, a hill located
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
…received the National Medal of Arts in recognition of its role as a national leader in fine arts education. In January 2007, in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the academy purchased Thomas Eakins's work The Gross Clinic from the Jefferson Medical School. This work is displayed at both institutions on a rotating…
Main building seen at night
Pediment with polychrome sculpture by Jennewein and Solon on the north wing, at the east entrance
The west entrance during construction in 2008