Key | Imgs | Short Description |
2021_DC_TPC_Staff | 28 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: 2021 James McLaughlin Staff Show 2021 James McLaughlin Staff Show
This Is My Day Job, Too!
July 12-September 24, 2021
The James McLaughlin Memorial Staff Show honors James McLaughlin (1909–82), an accomplished still-life painter who began his association with founder Duncan Phillips as a painting student at the Phillips Gallery Art... |
2024_01_05E3_TPC_Staff | 66 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: 2023 James McLaughlin Staff Show 2023 James McLaughlin Staff Show
This Is My Day Job, Too!
Staff Exhibition
December 16, 2023-February 16, 2024
The Phillips Collection has held an annual staff show for more than 30 years to feature the works of artists employed at the museum.
The James McLaughlin Memorial Staff Show honors James... |
2024_01_05E4_TPC_AfricanM | 116 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: African Modernism in America, 1947-67 African Modernism in America, 1947-67
Special Exhibition
October 7, 2023–January 7, 2024
In 1967, Fisk University received a transformative gift of modern African art from the Harmon Foundation, a leading American organization devoted to the support and promotion of African and African American... |
2021_DC_TPC_Thomas | 145 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful Alma W. Thomas
Everything Is Beautiful
October 30, 2021-January 23, 2022
Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful provides a fresh perspective on the artist’s dynamic long life (1891-1978) and multifaceted career that was defined by constant creativity. This major retrospective traces her journey from... |
2022_DC_TPC_De_Nittis | 157 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: An Italian Impressionist in Paris: Giuseppe De Nittis An Italian Impressionist in Paris: Giuseppe De Nittis
November 12, 2022–February 12, 2023
The Phillips Collection, in collaboration with the Pinacoteca Giuseppe De Nittis, the City of Barletta, Italy, and the Puglia Region (Italy), presents the first exhibition in the US devoted to the work of... |
2022_DC_TPC_Ukraine | 8 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Artist Tribute to Ukraine |
2019_DC_TPC_Bice | 11 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Bice Lazzari: The Poetry of Mark-Making Bice Lazzari: The Poetry of Mark-Making
October 23, 2018 - February 24, 2019
Born in 1900 in Venice, Bice Lazzari carved out a singular path in the history of post-war Italian art. For most women in Italy at the time, the possibility of forging a career in the fine arts was limited. Yet, she was... |
2022_DC_TPC_Alper | 17 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Celebrating Carolyn Alper |
2021_DC_TPC_Driskell | 81 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: David Driskell David Driskell
Icons of Nature and History
October 16, 2021-January 9, 2022
David Driskell (1931-2020) has long been recognized for his vibrant and versatile artistic practice rooted in his reverence of the beauty and spirituality of the American landscape and his profound connection to the African... |
2015_DC_TPC_Duncan | 8 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: David Duncan: Collector and Patron |
2021_DC_TPC_Canogar | 12 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Digital Intersections: Daniel Canogar (Amalgama Phillips) Digital Intersections: Daniel Canogar
Amalgama Phillips
Intersections
September 8, 2021-January 30, 2022
The Phillips Collection presents a Digital Intersections project by Daniel Canogar in celebration of the museum’s 100th anniversary.
Visit The Phillips Collection to see the site-specific... |
2017_DC_TPC_Condo | 55 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: George Condo: The Way I Think George Condo: The Way I Think
March 11 - June 25, 2017
The Phillips presents a survey of drawings and paintings by George Condo (b. 1957, Concord, New Hampshire), a prolific painter whose career spans three decades and is best known for his rich pictorial inventions, existential humor, and imaginative... |
2013_DC_TPC_History | 37 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: History in the Making |
2021_DC_TPC_Inside | 104 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Inside Outside, Upside Down Inside Outside, Upside Down
Juried Invitational
July 17-September 12, 2021
Featuring dynamic work across media by 64 artists of the greater DC region, this juried invitational celebrates The Phillips Collection’s 100th anniversary, building on the legacy of founder Duncan Phillips and his commitment... |
2013_DC_TPC_Inter | 24 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Intersections |
2017_DC_TPC_Intersections | 21 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Intersections: Arlene Shechet: From Here On Now Intersections: Arlene Shechet: From Here On Now
October 20, 2016 - May 7, 2017
New York-based sculptor Arlene Shechet is known for glazed ceramic sculptures that are off-kilter yet hang in a balance between stable and unstable, teetering between the restraint of intellect and the insistence of... |
2022_DC_TPC_Move | 11 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Intersections: Jonathan Monaghan: Move the Way you Want Intersections: Jonathan Monaghan: Move the Way you Want
September 22-December 31, 2022
Move the Way you Want is a site-specific immersive installation transforming the former Dining Room of the Phillips House into phantasmagoric dreamscapes where past and present meet, and the sacred and urbane... |
2023_DC_TPC_LLu | 11 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Intersections: Linling Lu: Soundwaves Intersections: Linling Lu
Soundwaves
February 9-April 30, 2023
Linling Lu’s signature works are abstract paintings with concentric rings of bright, pulsating colors. These circular canvases (tondos) ranging in scale from small to human-size, have hypnotic as well as sonic qualities, inspiring... |
2021_DC_TPC_Intersections | 19 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Intersections: Marley Dawson Intersections: Marley Dawson
May 20-September 5, 2021
Inspired by the dramatic architecture of the Phillips’s Goh Annex stairway, Marley Dawson has created two kinetic sculptures that accentuate its spiral configuration. The first group is comprised of brass chairs—five suspended from the Annex dome... |
2021_DC_TPC_Biggers | 26 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Intersections: Sanford Biggers Intersections: Sanford Biggers
Mosaic
Intersections
October 16, 2021-January 9, 2022
Sanford Biggers’s Intersections project presents a visual and conceptual interplay—a mosaic—of distinct histories, cultural narratives, and art styles. Drawing from works in the Phillips’s permanent collection,... |
2022_DC_TPC_Hiroshima | 18 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Jacob Lawrence and the Children of Hiroshima Jacob Lawrence and the Children of Hiroshima
August 23-November 27, 2022
“Is it not ironic that we have produced great scientists, great musicians, great orators, chess players, philosophers, poets, and great teachers, and at the same time, we have developed the capability … to create the means to... |
2021_DC_TPC_Struggle | 63 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle
Special Exhibition
June 26-September 19, 2021
In 1949, seven years after a meteoric rise to national attention with his epic Migration Series, the leading American painter Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000), began research at the New York Public Library for a new series.... |
2011_DC_TPC_Migration | 7 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series |
2015_DC_TPC_Migration | 13 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series |
2019_DC_TPC_Migration | 33 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series |
2017_DC_TPC_Toussaint | 17 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Jacob Lawrence; The Life Of Toussaint L'ouverture The Life Of Toussaint L'ouverture
Jacob Lawrence
January 7 - April 30, 2017
This exhibition features 15 rarely seen silkscreen prints created by American artist Jacob Lawrence (1917–2001) between 1986 and 1997. The series portrays the life of Toussaint L’Ouverture (1742–1803), the former slave turned... |
2019_DC_TPC_Nordic | 74 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Nordic Impressions Nordic Impressions
Art from Åland, Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, 1821–2018
October 13, 2018 - January 13, 2019
Nordic Impressions is a major survey of Nordic art spanning nearly 200 years and presenting 53 artists from Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway,... |
2022_DC_TPC_Riley | 7 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: One-on-One: Bridget Riley / Pierre-Auguste Renoir Bridget Riley / Pierre-Auguste Renoir
One-on-One
February 10-May 8, 2022
For her One-on-One installation, celebrated British painter Bridget Riley (b. 1931) selected three of her works—two paintings, Red Overture (2012) and Red with Red 1 (2007), and one screenprint, One Small Step (2009)—to be... |
2022_DC_TPC_Picasso_Blue | 151 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Picasso: Painting the Blue Period Picasso: Painting the Blue Period
February 26-June 12, 2022
Picasso: Painting the Blue Period is a groundbreaking exhibition that provides new insight into the creative process of Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) at the outset of his career. It is the first exhibition in Washington, DC, in 25 years to focus... |
2023_DC_TPC_Pour | 116 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Pour, Tear, Carve Pour, Tear, Carve
Material Possibilities in the Collection
Special Exhibition
March 18-May 14, 2023
What types of materials and techniques do artists use, and how do these decisions shape the subject, composition, and style of a work and its meaning? What methods do artists employ to subvert... |
2017_DC_TPC_Renoir_Friends | 84 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Renoir and Friends RENOIR AND FRIENDS: Luncheon of the Boating Party
October 7, 2017 - January 7, 2018
Recognized as one of the greatest achievements of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s career, Luncheon of the Boating Party (Le Déjeuner des canotiers) (1880–81) is a marvel of plein-air painting on a grand scale. The first... |
2022_DC_TPC_Restos | 38 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Restos-Traces Intersections: Marta Pérez García
Restos-Traces
March 31-August 28, 2022
Marta Pérez García’s art explores in a poetic way a wide range of human conditions, from fragility and vulnerability to strength and survival. Her recent work, created during the COVID-19 pandemic, addresses the troubling yet... |
2021_DC_TPC_Seeing | 128 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Seeing Differently Seeing Differently
March 6 - September 12, 2021
In 2021, The Phillips Collection, America’s first museum of modern art, celebrates its centennial. The museum opened its doors 100 years ago as a memorial to founder Duncan Phillips’s father, Duncan Clinch Phillips, and brother, James, who died in the... |
2022_DC_TPC_Tobi_Kahn | 8 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Tobi Kahn Tobi Kahn
February 12-May 31, 2022
What makes New York-based painter and sculptor Tobi Kahn so singular is that while his paintings have formal relationships to American modernists like Arthur Dove, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Marsden Hartley, his paintings and objects are closely linked to his religion and... |
2017_DC_TPC_TL | 163 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Toulouse-Lautrec Illustrates the Belle Epoque Toulouse-Lautrec Illustrates the Belle Epoque
February 4 - April 30, 2017
Toulouse-Lautrec Illustrates the Belle Époque presents an extraordinary collection of iconic and rare prints and posters from nearly the entire period of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s lithographic career. The legendary French... |
2024_01_05E2_TPC_1On1 | 66 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: Ugo Rondinone / Louis Eilshemius: One-on-One Ugo Rondinone / Louis Eilshemius: One-on-One
Special Installation
November 7, 2023–January 14, 2024
One-on-One: Ugo Rondinone / Louis Eilshemius juxtaposes paintings by Louis Michel Eilshemius (1864–1941) alongside works by acclaimed contemporary artist Ugo Rondinone (b. 1964, Brunnen, Switzerland).... |
2022_DC_TPC_School | 15 | DC -- The Phillips Collection -- Exhibit: ... Schools ... I couldn't find a description of this exhibit. |