This limited-time exhibition features 45+ paintings from artist Robert "Bob" Lyon (1922-2018). The works range from portraiture to still lifes and landscapes from throughout Lyon's seven decade artistic career. Lyon was inspired by everything around him, and pieces in this exhibit include paintings from his travels to Mexico and Hawaii, as well as the people and places in Lancaster. 

All works in this exhibit are for sale, with proceeds benefiting the Demuth Foundation and the Boyd Lyon Sea Turtle Fund. 

Please join us for a gallery talk on Thursday, October 3 at 6 pm!

Image: Robert Lyon, Clothespins

Charles Demuth's exquisite still lifes demonstrate his mastery of watercolor. Beginning in the late 1910s through his death in 1935, Demuth painted flowers, fruits, and vegetables, subjects readily available to him at his Lancaster, Pennsylvania home and studio, to refine his techniques and experiment with abstraction and Precisionism. 

Fresh Focus will celebrate the homecoming of a major new acquisition in 2023, Apples (Peaches & Plums, A Double-Sided Work). This small-scale special exhibition of Demuth still lifes watercolors will highlight the Lancaster County produce he so often depicted while correlating Demuth’s interest in the subject matter with his diagnosis and experience with Diabetes. 

Image: Charles Demuth, Apples (Peaches & Plums, A Double-Sided Work), c. 1925, watercolor and graphite on paper, Demuth Museum Collection, purchased with funds from the Louise Steinman von Hess Foundation

Some of Charles Demuth’s most intriguing and beloved works are watercolors featuring vegetables and fruits that highlight the abundance of Lancaster County’s farms. In 2023, we received a major acquisition of a double-sided watercolor c. 1925 of apples with peaches and plums on verso. We invited local artists to reflect on this work and other produce still lifes by Demuth to inspire new work through their perspective and style.

Image: Michael Allen, Sliced Apple

The Demuth Student Salon features student artworks from local schools and the Demuth School of Art program which teaches these aspiring artists about Charles Demuth’s pioneering artwork and life in Lancaster. View pieces inspired by Demuth’s Precisionism, Poster Portraits, watercolors, and more!

Join us for the reopening of the Demuth Museum! Visit our brand new galleries and view selections from the museum’s permanent collection of artworks by Charles Demuth. Learn more about Demuth’s ties to Lancaster, his mastery of watercolor, his personhood, and his impact.

Open from 10 am - 2 pm on Tuesdays, Fridays, & Saturdays in March

The Demuth Tobacco Shop will be open to the public on select dates! Join us for a look inside the oldest tobacco shop in the United States, founded in 1770 by Christopher Demuth. Learn about the shop's 250+ year history, the Demuth family, and Lancaster's tobacco industry.

Please note that the shop will be open as an educational and historical experience for visitors. No tobacco products will be available for sale.

Remaining open dates: February 16 & 17, 10 am - 4 pm, and February 18, 12 - 4 pm

Through interpreting their observations of the world around them, teen artists present a body of work capturing the common things in life. 

Virtual Exhibition

Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1883, Charles Demuth found inspiration in his hometown throughout his lifetime. As an adult, Demuth traveled beyond Lancaster County’s borders where he continued to be influenced by his environment. To satiate his adventurous spirit, these travels included various locations in the northeast United States, multiple trips to Europe, and even an excursion to Bermuda. Often Demuth found respite by the water, whether looking out to sea in France, relaxing on the beach in Provincetown, or spending time along the Susquehanna River.

Wherever his journeys led him, he remained grounded in Lancaster’s varied and lush scenery to fuel his creative ambitions and always returned to his studio, home, and mother.

Image: Charles Demuth, Marine, c. 1912, watercolor on paper, collection of the Demuth Museum, gift of the Thomas A. and Georgina T. Russo Family Foundation in honor of Executive Director Anne M. Lampe

The Demuth Museum is closed beginning 12/24/23 and will remain closed for installation of reinterpreted galleries. Learn more about the Demuth Reinterpretation project.

The Demuth Museum will reopen to the public on Friday, April 5th!

A special one-weekend exhibition in the Demuth Museum’s Gallery at 116, The Right Set of Circumstances features a collection of work by eight Fine Art seniors at the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design. Artists whose work is on display in the show include Kayla Smith, Sherrie Snyder, Megan Einoh, Ceanna Davis, Alivia Haltom, Thorne Havener, Mason Butler, and Nicole Wesoloski.

Join us for the opening reception on Friday, December 1 from 5 - 8 pm! Hours for this exhibition are Friday, December 1, 5 - 8 pm; Saturday, December 2, 10 am - 4 pm; and Sunday, December 3, 12 pm - 4 pm.

Join us for an exclusive look at the unique collection of artist and collector Gail Schroeder at this limited time exhibit. Schroeder's aesthetic focuses on Visionary Art, Folk Art, and Contemporary Art, and this special exhibition features over 40 pieces she's acquired over 4 decades, including works she created herself. 

Gallery talk and opening reception with Executive Director Abby Baer will be held Thursday, October 19 from 6-7 pm. RSVP is not required but appreciated.

Artwork will be available for purchase with a portion of proceeds benefiting the Demuth Foundation. 

Image: Louis Vuittonet, Untitled, acrylic on canvas

Ferdinand Demuth, father of Charles Demuth, took up photography during the 1890’s and produced both photographic prints and lantern slides. As a member of the Lancaster Camera Club, Ferdinand captured the changing landscape of the modern era in Lancaster City and the surrounding areas. The photographs on view are modern prints made from Demuth’s glass negatives that are part of the Demuth Museum’s archive collection.

Image: Ferdinand Demuth, Looking West on East King Street from front step of the Demuth home, 1907, photograph, Demuth Museum Archives

Creative Quarters features black and white photographs of the 60+ artists represented in Historic Artists' Homes and Studios (HAHS), a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. This exhibition of images of 19th and 20th century artists from across the country with their homes, studios, and landscapes they worked in captures the historical evolution of art in the U.S. The artists of HAHS represent diverse styles and mediums, including painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, furniture, and decorative arts. The photographs featured in Creative Quarters allow viewers to deepen their understanding of the artists' lives, creative processes, and artwork. As a member of HAHS, the Demuth Museum is proud to highlight Charles Demuth's contemporaries and other U.S. artists that have helped define American Art. 

In conjunction with our current special exhibition Capturing Community: Inside an American Salon, we've been working with a small group of immigrant and refugee artists to develop a new salon in Lancaster. These artists have created new works to share their experiences and stories with our community. 

Support for this project provided by Art Bridges.

Images: Left - Claudia Rojas, Rumba Solar; Right - Svetlana Koval, March

This special exhibition will explore Charles Demuth's peers in the Stieglitz Circle and their influential work that formed the American Modern Art movement in the early 20th century. Through loans from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Art Bridges Collection, and private collections, 12 works of painting and photography will be paired with pieces from the Demuth Museum collection to compare and contrast artists' styles and techniques. Capturing Community offers glimpses into the artists' lives and inspirations while telling the story of how they are all connected through one man -- Alfred Stieglitz. 

This is one in a series of American art exhibitions created through a multi-year, multi-institutional partnership formed by the Philadelphia Museum of Art as part of the Art Bridges Cohort Program.

Image: Carl Van Vechten, Charles Demuth and Georgia O’Keeffe, May 3, 1932, gelatin silver print, Philadelphia Museum of Art: Gift of John Mark Lutz, 1965, 1965-86-3434

This special exhibition commemorates the 30th anniversary of beloved Lancaster artist David Brumbach’s death and recognizes National Diabetes Month, providing a glimpse into Brumbach’s later years and how the effects of diabetes impacted his artwork. Highlights include several of Brumbach’s Star Barn paintings and works from his Masks series, along with interpretation and ephemera that explores the artist’s experiences with disease.

Image: David Brumbach, Star Barn, 1991, acrylic on paper, collection of the Lancaster Museum of Art, gift of David and Julia Rosenfeld