Past Exhibitions: Demuth Museum
As It Is: Fine Art Seniors of PCA&D
December 6 - 8, 2024
A special one-weekend exhibition at the Demuth Program Center, As It Is features a collection of work by 9 Fine Art seniors at the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design. Artists whose work is on display in the show include Sydney Beard, Charlie Royce, Krista Canoles, Elizabeth Gregory, Mickey Hess, Adanya Johnson, Quinn Knepper, Lexy Sills-Schueler, and Katherine Hess.
Warren Rohrer, Pond Study 6, 1976, oil on heavy paper, Courtesy of Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
Warren Rohrer: Place on Paper
November 2 - December 22, 2024 / January 2 - 5, 2025
Warren Rohrer: Place On Paper is an original exhibition offering an intimate look at Rohrer’s works on paper and preparatory pieces to better understand his extraordinary vision and process of capturing the fields of Lancaster County. This small special exhibit features 10 pieces focusing on his works on paper from the 1970s and 1980s.
Robert Lyon, Clothespins
Life in Painting: Robert Lyon’s Works
October 1 - 6, 2024
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.
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
Fresh Focus: Demuth Still Life Paintings
August 3 - October 20, 2024
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.
Michael Allen, Sliced Apple
Demuth Invitational: Still Life
May 25 - July 21, 2024
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.
Demuth Student Salon
April 20 - May 19, 2024
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!
Charles Demuth, Self Portrait, 1907, oil on canvas, collection of the Demuth Museum, gift of Margaret Lestz
Demuth Museum Reopening Celebration: Collection Highlights
April 5 - 14, 2024
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.
Capturing the Common: Observing the Little THings in Life
February 9 - 18, 2024
Through interpreting their observations of the world around them, teen artists present a body of work capturing the common things in life.