Support for Research on AKMP Painting Collection by Museum Loan Network

In spring 2005, the Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia (AKMP) was approached by the Museum Loan Network to participate in its new initiative, Energizing Early American Art.  The initiative is designed to reinvigorate the study of pre-1840 American portraiture, by identifying and making paintings available for loan that may be rarely shown in home institutions and by identifying comparable paintings that may inspire scholarship.  Matthew Palczynski, a graduate student in Art History at Temple University, worked with Jeffrey Ray, AKMP's Senior Curator, to select 11 paintings from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania Collection at AKMP for loan and an additional 14 paintings for further research.  The Museum Loan Network facilitates the long-term loan of art and objects among United States cultural institutions.  It is funded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Office of Arts, which is supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts.

For more information about the AKMP Painting Collection, contact Jeffrey Ray, Senior Curator at jeffrey.ray@atwaterkentmuseum.org.

Basic catalog and descriptive information for the paintings in this web gallery is taken from:

Nicholas B. Wainwright, Ed. Paintings and Miniatures at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1974.