PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Abstract Expressionism and its Discontents, a new installation at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) on view through August 28, 2011, revisits the post-World War II art movement to include artists historically not assoc…
PAFA Acquires Works by Mark Bradford, Philip Evergood, & Lilly Martin Spencer
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts (PAFA) recently acquired
the following
three works: Mark Bradford’s Untitled (Dementia), 2009; Philip
Evergood’s “Mine
Disaster”, 1933/37; and Lilly Martin Spencer’s “Mother and Child” by the
Hearth,
1867. Mark Bradford is
internationally recognized as a leading artist of his generation. He is
the
recipient of numerous awards, including the MacArthur Fellowship Genius
Grant,
Bucksbaum Award, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, and the Joan
Mitchell
Foundation Award. Major exhibitions include the Whitney Biennial, 27th
São Paolo
Biennial, Carnegie International, and a solo exhibition at the Whitney
Museum of
American Art in 2007. Bradford’s work incorporates strong environmental,
social,
and political themes as well as Minimalist, Abstract Expressionist, and
Conceptual elements.