Important selections from one of the finest collections of European art ever to have been formed in the United States by a private collector is currently on view. Including masterpieces by key figures of the Renaissance, the Dutch Golden Age, and 19th-century American and French masters, this show is one for the ages.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is celebrating the centenary of the remarkable bequest of John Graver Johnson — a distinguished corporate lawyer of his day and one of the era’s most adventurous art collectors — to the city of Philadelphia in 1917. “Old Masters Now: Celebrating the Johnson Collection” — on view now through February 19 — includes masterpieces by key figures of the Renaissance such as Botticelli, Bosch, and Titian; important 17th-century Dutch paintings by Rembrandt, Jan Steen, and others; and works by American and French masters of Johnson’s own time, most notably Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, and Édouard Manet and Claude Monet.
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