Year of Women Artists

The Year of Women Artists at The Westmoreland will feature a dynamic roster of exhibitions and events throughout 2025, including a focus on important American women artists from a variety of backgrounds and eras.

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

February 9 – May 18, 2025
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, Elaine de Kooning, and Alma Thomas, the exhibition spans the 1940s to the 2000s.

Adele Lemm, Still Life, date unknown. Oil on canvas. The Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, South Carolina

Aaronel deRoy Gruber

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 from the inaugural exhibition, 250 Years of Art in Pennsylvania, with recent acquisitions, including photography by Pittsburgh artist Aaronel deRoy Gruber.

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

April 11, 2025 – March 29, 2026
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.

Mary Cassatt’s Mother and Two Children

This visitor favorite returned to The Westmoreland after being part of Mary Cassatt at Work, a prestigious, nationally-touring exhibition organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

 

Cecilia Beaux: Inventing the Modern Portrait

June 13, 2025 – June 7, 2026

Works from The Westmoreland’s permanent collection, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the National Academy of Design highlight the artist’s contributions to American art.

The Art of Elizabeth Catlett from the Collection of Samella Lewis

September 7, 2025 – January 4, 2026

This exhibition celebrates Catlett’s achievements in sculpture and printmaking and honors a half-century of her artistic activism in support of women.

 

Brynn Hurlstone: Resonance

September 7, 2025 – January 4, 2026

This interactive exhibition addresses the pervasive, yet often unseen, issue of domestic violence. A transdisciplinary artist, Hurlstone uses reactive materials—steel, glass, water, salt, silk, cotton, paper, and wood—to create an environment that “is alive, in continual transformation, and activated by human presence.”