Valley Culture

Lisa Minardi and Christopher Malone Exhibitions, Furniture & Decorative Arts

Organized to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Historic Trappe’s Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, Valley Culture: Constructing Identity Along the Great Wagon Road explores the evolution of Pennsylvania German folk art as settlers moved west. ⬬

Exhibitions: Out of Obscurity, into the Light

David Ebony Art, Exhibitions

Works by artist Nancy Elizabeth Prophet are rare and seldom exhibited because fewer than two dozen are known to exist. Nearly all of them are included in Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: I Will Not Bend an Inch, the first-ever museum survey devoted to this elusive American artist, whose important contributions to twentieth-century art, especially in the field of sculpture, have only lately been fully recognized.

Exhibitions: Late Bloomer

James Gardner Art, Exhibitions

Although Rachel Ruysch is not exactly a household name, she is hardly anonymous: while she lived, she was an honored painter in the Old Masters tradition, and she has had her admirers ever since her death in 1750, at the age of eighty-three.

Exhibitions: Back in Style

Sarah Stafford Turner Exhibitions

Where does a darling of the art deco movement go to retire? For Tamara de Lempicka, once a painter of the rich and famous, known for her evocative cubist-inspired style, it was Cuernavaca, Mexico — by way of Houston, Texas.

Exhibitions: Tales from the Other Side

Thomas Connors Art, Exhibitions

For the unbeliever, the skeptic, the misanthrope, few movements could elicit greater disdain than the spiritualism that arose in the late 1840s and swept through American society into the 1920s.