More Perfect Union Newsletter Please enter a valid email address. Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter! The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is the nation’s first art museum and school.

Among those mourning the loss of auteur director David Lynch Thursday was the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, which brought the famed filmmaker to Philadelphia in the late 1960s and, in some ways, ...

His post caught the attention of the digital history project 1838 Black ... Dorsey exhibited paintings at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in 1867 and 1868, including a work ...

For years, the painter, who’d trained at what became known as University of the Arts and at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, had scarcely sold any of his canvases. Living on a homestead near ...