PAFA exhibits more than 100 new acquisitions and rarely seen gems

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts invites you to explore the idea of space and unique spaces in Infinite Spaces: Rediscovering PAFA’s Permanent Collection, on view June 30 – September 9, 2018, and occupying both the Fisher Brooks Gallery in the Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building and the Richard C. von Hess Foundation Works on Paper Gallery in the Historic Landmark Building. Infinite Spaces brings together a range of objects, including paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, video, and installation to explore the ways in which artists have navigated their surroundings from the eighteenth century to the present day. Placing historic works in conversation with modern and contemporary works, Infinite Spaces highlights more than 100 new acquisitions and rarely seen gems from PAFA’s historic collection of American art. One of the new acquisitions on view, Frederic Edwin Church’s masterful oil painting, Valley