PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS

It is the first school and the first museum of fine arts in the United States. Founded in 1805 under President Jefferson, she settled in 1876 in this large building built by architect Frank Furness. The museum is mainly renowned for its collection of American art (painting, sculptures and works on paper) of the XVII and nineteenth centuries. It includes about 1,800 works of artists, such as Charles Willson Peale, William Rush, Thomas Sully, Thomas Eakins, Thomas Anshutz, Mary Cassatt, Cecilia Beaux, William Merritt Chase, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Charles Grafly, Maxfield Parrish, William Glackens, William Glackens, Everett Shinn, George Luks, Violet Oakley, Arthur B. Carles, Daniel Garber and Robert Gwathmey.

To see in particular: Penn's Treaty with the Indians, of Benjamin West (1771-1772) in Room 4; the portraits of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington by Charles Willson-Peale (who served under his command) in Room 2; Fourth of July of July in Center Square of Krimmel to see the City Hall site before its construction in Room 13.

The museum, which also offers excellent temporary exhibitions (information on the website) is a good idea to perceive life in the United States in the nineteenth century and to familiarize itself with the themes raised by the Academy students with tables like George Washington (The Lansdowne Portrait) (1796), Gilbert Stuart; Hailing the ferry (1888) from Daniel Ridgway Knight and The Fox Hunt (1893) from Winslow Homer.