This exciting new addition to the collection will enable the PMA to tell a richer, more dynamic story of women’s contributions to neoclassical sculpture, transatlantic art movements, and American art more broadly.
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Describing his greatest professional ambition, Gustave Le Gray wrote, “I wish that photography, instead of falling within the domain of industry, of commerce, will be included among the arts. That is its only, true place.” Read more about early photography andThe Brig by Gustave Le Gray.
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Pope.L is renowned for using his own body to make art that expands traditional boundaries of medium and subject matter, and brings gender, class and racial stereotypes uncomfortably close to the artist and his audiences. Pope.L’s work explores the fraught connection between prosperity and what he calls “have-not-ness.”
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“We’re going to be long gone, and [our artwork] will still be in these institutions…There will come a time when my grandchildren will visit me [at the museum], and that whole notion that we just survive, through art, is so powerful and empowering.” - Angel Abreu of K.O.S.
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Edward Hopper's Pemaquid Light is one of the PMA's most requested works to view, but given the delicate nature of works on paper, it only appears in our galleries once every half-decade or so. Since most of us are still at home, we thought we'd bring it to you with an essay from our first-ever collection catalogue.
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