Curator’s Choice
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Featuring a selection of works from the permanent collection handpicked by new Chief Curator Jeremiah William McCarthy.
Exhibitions at The Westmoreland
Featured exhibition
Featured exhibition
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Alone Together: Encounters in American Realism
This exhibition stages encounters between social and magic realist artworks from early-to-mid twentieth century with works by five contemporary artists whose works grapple with what it feels to live in the world right now.
Current exhibitions
Alone Together: Encounters in American Realism
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This exhibition stages encounters between social and magic realist artworks from early-to-mid twentieth century with works by five contemporary artists whose works grapple with what it feels to live in the world right now.
Knowing and Naming: Abstraction Beyond Reality
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The concept of taking something nonrepresentational and naming it after something “real” unites the works in Knowing and Naming: Abstraction Beyond Reality.
Upcoming exhibitions
Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America
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This exhibition explores how, after World War I, artists without formal training “crashed the gates” of major museums in the United States, diversifying the art world across lines of race, ethnicity, class, ability, and gender.
Forests of Symbols
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This installation of five paintings shows the Symbolism movement’s influence as it developed in this country from the early to mid-twentieth century.
Past exhibitions
Scott Turri: Shelter in Place
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From his new series of paintings Shelter in Place, Scott Turri looks to the industrial design of a laundry basket as a source.
Westmoreland Photographers Society: Scenes of Laurel Highlands
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Scenes of Laurel Highlands is a juried member exhibition highlighting the people, events, historical and cultural sites, nature, and landscapes that represent the beautiful Laurel Highlands of western Pennsylvania.
End of an Illusion
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A complimentary exhibition to Stephen Towns: Declaration & Resistance featuring works from the permanent collection and additional loans that highlight artists and objects that were influential to visual artist Stephen Towns.
Stephen Towns: Declaration & Resistance
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Stephen Towns: Declaration & Resistance examines the American dream through the lives of Black Americans from the late 18th century to the present time.
Tina Williams Brewer | Cultivation: Journey of the Work
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On view in the Robertshaw Gallery. Tina Williams Brewer is a storyteller and through her multi-layered quilts she shares stories about life, myth, history, and her own heritage. This exhibition […]
Doris Lee & Her Contemporaries: Selections from the Permanent Collection
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On view in the Post-1950s Gallery The artists presented in this gallery are all contemporaries of Doris Lee. They share similar approaches to subject matter and reflect Lee’s own stylistic […]
Past exhibitions
Scott Turri: Shelter in Place
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From his new series of paintings Shelter in Place, Scott Turri looks to the industrial design of a laundry basket as a source.
Westmoreland Photographers Society: Scenes of Laurel Highlands
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Scenes of Laurel Highlands is a juried member exhibition highlighting the people, events, historical and cultural sites, nature, and landscapes that represent the beautiful Laurel Highlands of western Pennsylvania.
End of an Illusion
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A complimentary exhibition to Stephen Towns: Declaration & Resistance featuring works from the permanent collection and additional loans that highlight artists and objects that were influential to visual artist Stephen Towns.
Permanent collection
The Westmoreland’s expansive collection of American art with a strong focus on the art and artists of Southwestern Pennsylvania is always available in the Museum’s permanent collection galleries. There is always something new to discover!
