Pennylvania
Beauty
through
May 1, 2005
Reading
Public Museum visitors will be able to experience
the beauty of the Pennsylvania countryside
through the art of Pennsylvania’s
greatest Impressionist artists. In its American
Gallery, the Museum will unveil Pennsylvania
Beauty, paintings from the Museum’s
permanent collection, including works from
renowned Impressionist artists William Langson
Lathrop, Edward Willis Redfield, Walter
Emerson Baum, Anthony Pietro Martino, and
Fern Isabel Coppedge. Many of the artists
used the landscape of nearby New Hope and
Bucks County to explore Impressionism. Museum
Director and CEO, Ron Roth comments, “The
New Hope artists were very influential in
shaping the direction of the Impressionist
movement in the United States. This collection
is one of the treasures of the Museum, representative
of one of the most important contributions
Pennsylvania has made to the American art
scene. As part of the celebration of the
100th Anniversary of the Museum’s
founding, I thought it was time to bring
together these paintings for the first time
in one exhibit.”
Pennsylvania Beauty is supported
in part by grants from the Friends of the
Reading Museum, the Pennsylvania Council
on the Arts and the Pennsylvania Historical
and Museum Commission. Regular Museum admission
is $7 adults (18-60) and $5 children/students/seniors.
Museum hours are Tuesday, Thursday, Friday,
Saturday 11am to 5pm, Wednesday 11am to
8pm and Sunday Noon to 5pm.
In the early 20th Century, New Hope, Pennsylvania
was the site of one of the most influential
artists’ colonies in the United States.
Here, the rolling hills, picturesque Quaker
homesteads, scenic Delaware River and Delaware
& Raritan Canal provided a rich backdrop
for expanding the possibilities of American
Impressionism. The New Hope culture stimulated
a free flowing exchange of ideas among the
artists and by 1915 many of the artists
were receiving national international recognition
of their work. The Museum will bring the
world-renowned beauty of New Hope and other
areas of Pennsylvania to the community of
Reading.
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