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The Phillips Museum of Art

Collections

The collection at The Phillips Museum of Art consists of fine arts including paintings, photographs, sculptures, and works on paper.  The collection also includes decorative arts, Pennsylvania German material culture, ethnographic material and some historical material.  The collections are available for research by students, faculty and outside scholars.  A portion of the permanent collection is on exhibition in the museum, as well as various buildings throughout the campus.  Objects are also periodically used for temporary exhibitions and are loaned to various museums in the region.

  • Gotthilf Henry Ernest Muhlenberg

  • Paintings

    There are approximately 400 paintings in the collection that span from the 18th century to contemporary.  Highlights include works by Jacob Eichholtz, Benjamin West, the estate of Caroline Peart,  Eleanore Lockspeiser, Warren Rohrer,  Cleve Gray

  • 19th Century Japanese Art

  • Photographs

    The photograph collection contains early daguerreotypes and 19th century Japanese photographs as well as the entire set of Larry Clark’s Tulsa series and Gilles Peress’ Flashpoint portfolio.  Artists in the collection include Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Elliot Erwitt, Sally Gall, Erica Lennard, Joel Meyerowitz and Ralph Gibson.

  • Taufschein of Abraham Kramer

  • Works on Paper

    There are more then 200 works on paper including Cezanne, Eugene Delacroix, John J. Audubon, The Boydell Shakespeare prints, Thomas Moran, Louis Lozowick, Robert Indiana, Pierre Alechinsky, Luigi Rist, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Fritz Scholder, Jose Cuevas, Reuven Rubin, Chaim Gross, Keith Haring, and Alice Aycock. 

  • Marble Bench

  • Sculpture

    Sculpture is located throughout the campus and includes George Rickey, Linda Cunningham, Edmund Whiting, Arleen Love, Stanley Boxer, George Chemeche, Alice Aycock, Sorel Etrog and Fritz Koeing.

  • Vickers Earthenware Sgraffito Bowl

  • Pennsylvania German Material Culture

    In 1987, the college received a gift from Robert L. Schaeffer Jr, which consists of Fraktur, furniture, coverlets, quilts, and redware.  Other objects in the collection include springerle molds, butter molds, spinning wheels and bandboxes.

  • Export Spatterware Tea Cup

  • Decorative Arts

    This collection consists of wide range of decorative arts pieces including Gaudy Dutch, Spatterware, Stiegel glass, silver, furniture, Lancaster County tall case clocks and porcelain figurines. 

  • Roman Coin

  • Archeology and Anthropology

    This collection includes Roman coins, African artifacts, and pre-Columbian artifacts.

  • Serena Mayer Franklin North

  • The Hugh North Jr. and Serena Hutchinson North Collection Trust

    The North collection held in trust by the college includes fine and decorative arts collection from the North family who resided in Lancaster County. This collection features paintings by Lloyd Mifflin, Jacob Eichholtz, Thomas Sully and Ben Breckenridge; Pennsylvania samplers, more then 200 paperweights, selection of prints of the Susquehanna River Valley.

  • Ebco Na

  • The Bill Hutson Collection

    In 2009, artist Bill Hutson gave his entire collection to the college including more than 300 of his own works as well as his large collection of several hundred works by other artists including Howardena Pindell, Edward Clark, Sam Middleton, William T. Williams, Frank Bowling, Al Loving and Mel Edwards.