February 10 – June 17, 2007

This exhibition in the Cove Gallery features acquisitions to the Museum’s permanent collection made primarily by gift, purchase or bequest.

One of the featured works in this mini-exhibit is an 8th century A.D. Mayan ceramic vessel purchased with Museum acquisitions funds. This masterpiece of pre-Columbian art depicts a Mayan king and priests in a ritual bloodletting scene and sheds light on Mayan religious practices.

Other highlights of the show include prints by American marine artists Gordon Grant and Frederick Owen, and etchings by James McNeill Whistler and Jean François Millet, gifted to the Museum by Kathryn Klingeman. Also on exhibit is sculpture by August Gaul, one of the most influential German sculptors of the early 20th century, gifted by Mrs. Mildred Schutte. Other artists featured in the show include Donald Sultan, Roswell Weidner, Lizbeth Stewart, Anderson Johnson, Sterling Strauser, Eugene Feldman and Jerome Kaplan.

This exhibition is underwritten in part by grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Open during regular Museum hours.

Above: Cylinder Vase, Mayan, 796 - 848 AD, polychromed ceramic, Museum Purchase