Monthly Archives: May 2009

Visual Delight: Ornament and Pattern in Modern and Contemporary Design

16 May 2009
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May 16, 2009 - September 20, 2009: This exhibition, drawn primarily from the Museum’s modern and contemporary design collection, features some thirty objects dating from the mid-1960s to the present.

A Taste for Modern: The Jeanne Rymer Collection of Twentieth-Century Chairs

16 May 2009
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May 16, 2009 - September 20, 2009: This installation of twenty-three chairs is selected from an important group given to the Museum in 2007 by Jeanne Rymer, a retired professor and head of the Interior Design Program at the University of Delaware.

Wrought and Crafted: Jewelry and Metalwork 1900–Present

8 May 2009
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May 9, 2009 - February 7, 2010: Today, Philadelphia is home to many emerging and established metalsmiths who teach, create, and exhibit their work here and elsewhere. On display in this gallery are pieces by several significant Philadelphians—Olaf Skoogfors, Stanley Lechtzin, Jan Yager, Bruce Metcalf, and Sharon Church, to name just a few—as well as recognized artists from around the country.