The Phillips Collection
The Phillips Collection is open Tuesday-Saturday, 10 am-5 pm; Sunday 11 am-5 pm (10-11 am Members only). Reservations encouraged; members may walk-in. Plan your visit!
Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful - The Phillips Collection
Alma W. Thomas was a pioneering artist and educator who taught us the importance of seeking beauty in the everyday. Beginning fall 2021, cultural and educational institutions across Washington, DC, will celebrate Thomas’s life with a variety of programs, events, and a major exhibition at The Phillips Collection, honoring her contributions to our cultural heritage.
History - The Phillips Collection
The Phillips Collection, America’s first museum of modern art, was opened in 1921 in historic Dupont Circle in Washington, DC, by collector and philanthropist Duncan Phillips. Duncan Phillips (1886-1966) was the son of Major Duncan Clinch Phillips, a Pittsburgh businessman and Civil War veteran, and Eliza Laughlin Phillips, whose father was a banker and co-founder of Jones and Laughlin Steel ...
Tickets - The Phillips Collection
Oct 23, 2024 · Purchase tickets for current events and exhibitions. The Phillips Collection is open Tuesday-Saturday, 10 am-5 pm; Sunday 11 am-5 pm (10-11 am Members only).
Administration - The Phillips Collection
Cherie Nichols, Chief Financial Officer. Cherie joined The Phillips Collection in 2000 and has held several positions prior to becoming CFO in 2019. As CFO, Cherie overseas the Finance and Human Resource departments and is responsible for all things financial, including budgeting, cash management, internal and external reporting, forecasting, investments, commercial and tax-exempt debt and ...
Skyscrapers - The Phillips Collection
Skyscrapers, which reflects the 1920s precisionist aesthetic, is one of Charles Sheeler’s most accomplished assimilations of European modernism into his own uniquely American style. Using sharply defined contours, non-atmospheric planes of color, and intense frontal light, Sheeler conveyed to the viewer a sense of monumental buildings …
Green and Maroon - The Phillips Collection
Green and Maroon was executed in the mid-1950s, when he painted scores of large canvases. Other works from this period all have a similar format, but vary widely in mood, depending upon their color and internal proportions. Rothko abhorred being viewed as a formalist abstract artist whose foremost intent was to arrange color fields on a flat canvas; he insisted that his art concerned the ...
Canyon - The Phillips Collection
At fifteen, Helen Frankenthaler spent hour sat the Museum of Modern Art advised by artist Rufino Tamayo, her teacher at The Dalton School. After studying painting at Bennington College, Vermont, Frankenthaler met, in 1950, critic Clement Greenberg and several artists from the New York school, including David Smith, Jackson Pollock, and her future husband, Robert Motherwell. Exposure to Pollock ...
Pierre-Auguste Renoir - The Phillips Collection
America’s First Museum of Modern Art. Pierre-Auguste Renoir Luncheon of the Boating Party (between 1880 and 1881)
Bonnard's Worlds - The Phillips Collection
Jun 2, 2024 · Bonnard’s Worlds, the first major retrospective of Pierre Bonnard’s work at The Phillips Collection in 20 years, explores the sensory spheres of experience that fueled the French artist’s creative practice. Bonnard’s immediate surroundings were the lifeblood of his work, and this exhibition is guided by those personal spaces that found expression in …