December 27, 2007
Woodmere Art Museum
I attended a meeting held at the Woodmere Art Museum located at 9201 Germantown Ave in Chestnut Hill. I do not get up to this area of the city that often and every time I do I always discover a new treasure. This time it was the Woodmere Art Museum. The museum highlights Philadelphia artists with over 600 paintings and sculpture including works by Daniel Garber, Thomas Pollock Anshutz, Edward Moran, Violet Oakley, Nelson Shanks, Benjamin West, and N. C. Wyeth. In addition, the Museum has an impressive collection of works on paper including prints and drawings by Earle Horter, Clare Leighton, Robert Riggs, Jessie Willcox Smith, and Herbert Pullinger.
The museum is open Tuesday thru Saturday from 10am to 5pm and on Sunday from 1 to 5 pm. Admission is free. If you are looking for an event to get you to come to the museum this looked quite interesting:
The Woodmere Art Museum is just one of many institutions in the Philadelphia area that have docents. Docents are highly knowledgeable guides that can give you a personal tour or provide you with answers to questions you may have during your visit. As I will be starting a docent program where I work (John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge), I will be exploring the institutions that feature docent programs in Philadelphia and I encourage you to do the same. Some of these institutions are the Philadelphia Zoo, Art Museum, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and Morris Arboretum.
Woodmere Art Museum
9201 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19118
(215) 247-0476
www.woodmereartmuseum.org
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December 27, 2007, 12:21 pm
Stephen says:
Right now there are two wonderful exhibits that everyone should see! Angels, Alleys, and Animal Acts exposes five exceptional print makers in a way that nurtures appreciation for the image in black and white at a time when the over indulgence of color is blinding everyone. The subject matter of these 20th century masters gets your heart racing, an authentic immersion into a social understanding of our human condition. Tonality in this exhibit takes the optic nerve to the dimension of essential experience. These works deserve the wonderful environs Woodmere offers and no one will leave disappointed. The other exhibit is the newly conserved lunettes by Violet Oakley. And here the vocabulary of color makes defining “masterpiece” an immediate experience. The print exhibit is only up until 1/6/08 so hurry in.
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