The Reading Public Museum is pleased to announce a new installation in the American Gallery through May 2021 titled American Women Artists from the Collection. The installation includes nearly thirty works spanning more than 150 years. Women artists have been an important part of the Museum’s history, with the earliest works by women entering the collection in 1913, the first year RPM added fine art to its natural history and cultural collections.  

The exhibition features works by Sara Miriam Peale, Mary B. Leisz, Alice Kent Stoddard, Fern Coppedge, Mary Parker Kornhauser, Jane Peterson, Lillian B. Meeser, Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer, Mary Hiester Reid, and Susan Kahn, among others. Paintings include still life, figural studies, portraits, landscapes, and seascapes. The installation also includes sculptures by Anna Hyatt Huntington, Malvina Hoffman, and Sonia Gordon-Brown.