On View

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Exhibitions at The Westmoreland

Featured exhibitions

Our Own Work, Our Own Way: Southern Modern Women Artists

Our Own Work, Our Own Way: Southern Modern Women Artists highlights artists whose legacies were shaped by their experiences in the American South. Featuring over 40 artists, including Anni Albers, […]

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The Great Search: Art in a Time of Change, 1928–1945 (Part 2)

The Great Search: Art in a Time of Change, 1928–1945 surveys the period from the beginning of the Great Depression to the end of World War II to demonstrate how pluralism was a hallmark of the modern American art world.

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Ongoing

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Pennsylvania in Progress

The Westmoreland opened in 1959 with the aim of building an American art collection that captured the spirit of Pennsylvania art. Pennsylvania in Progress honors this vision by juxtaposing works […]

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The Great Search: Art in a Time of Change, 1928–1945 (Part 2)

The Great Search: Art in a Time of Change, 1928–1945 surveys the period from the beginning of the Great Depression to the end of World War II to demonstrate how pluralism was a hallmark of the modern American art world.

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All the Right Notes

Inspired by the long-term loan of Melissa Meyer’s monumental O the Times, O the Manners, All the Right Notes presents artworks and objects inspired by the ethereality of music.

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George Hetzel and Scalp Level

George Hetzel and Scalp Level showcases the artwork of George Hetzel and his students from the Scalp Level School, celebrating the rich artistic heritage of Southwestern Pennsylvania.

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Fraktur

The Westmoreland’s fraktur collection, made in Westmoreland County primarily by schoolteachers from the 1780s to the 1840s, illustrates the evolution of the tradition brought to Pennsylvania by German and Swiss […]

Past exhibitions

The Westmoreland Collects…

The Westmoreland Collects… featuring Scott Hunter, Bluffs, 2016. Oil and acrylic on canvas. Gift of The Westmoreland Society, 2017.

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Anila Quayyum Agha: Interwoven    

Anila Quayyum Agha: Interwoven surveys two decades of the artist’s practice across media, including sculpture, installation, embroidery, painting and drawing, and represents the most comprehensive exhibition to date of this important Pakistani-American visual artist.

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65 Artists, 65 Years: An Anniversary Exhibition

As 2024 is the 65th anniversary of the Museum opening its doors to the public, the year will start off with an anniversary exhibition presenting 65 artists from the museum collection.

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Creating Common Memory

This exhibition presents select works from the Museum’s permanent collection through Hayden Haynes’s individual perspective as a member of the Onöndowa’ga:’ (Seneca) and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy).

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Toshiko Mori & Frank Lloyd Wright: Dialogue in Details

This exhibition highlights the dialogue between two architectural works – Wright’s 1907 Martin House, the home complex for businessman Darwin D. Martin and his family, and Mori’s 2009 Eleanor and Wilson Greatbatch Pavilion, a visitor center and interpretive gallery for…

Upcoming

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A Fountain of Forms: The Rise of the American Woman Sculptor, 1910–1929

A Fountain of Forms: The Rise of the American Woman Sculptor, 1910–1929 showcases remarkable depictions of the female body by women artists, highlighting their subversion of gender and sexuality conventions. […]

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Anila Quayyum Agha: Interwoven    

Anila Quayyum Agha: Interwoven surveys two decades of the artist’s practice across media, including sculpture, installation, embroidery, painting and drawing, and represents the most comprehensive exhibition to date of this important Pakistani-American visual artist.

Search the Collection

The Westmoreland’s expansive collection of American art with a strong focus on the art and artists of Southwestern Pennsylvania is available in the Museum’s permanent collection galleries. There is always something new to discover!