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Exhibitions at The Westmoreland

Featured exhibitions

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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The Great Search: Art in a Time of Change, 1928–1945

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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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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All the Right Notes

Inspired by the long-term loan of Terry Adkin’s kinetic Native Son (Circus) and Melissa Meyer’s monumental O The Times, 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.

Past exhibitions

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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…

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Southwestern Pennsylvania

Co-organized by The Westmoreland Museum of American Art and Fallingwater, a property entrusted to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. This exhibition offers a multi-sensory experience by presenting immersive videos and models of unrealized residential, commercial, and civic projects designed by Frank…

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Block Party: Community and Celebration in American Art

This exhibition takes as its point of departure the World War I innovation of the urban “block party,” and uses it as a lens to view ideas on belonging, activism, and mutual solidarity in historical and contemporary American art. Drawn largely…

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Forests of Symbols

This installation of five paintings shows the influence of European Symbolism on art as it developed in this country from the early to mid-twentieth century.

Upcoming

Featured Image for 65 Artists, 65 Years: An Anniversary Exhibition

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.

Featured Image for Creating Common Memory

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).

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!