“We painters for the People must not only tell them the truth in human justice and righteousness, but we must … say it better and with more conviction than anyone else to be accepted.”—William Gropper ...

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The Phillips Collection’s workshop and gallery at the Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Campus (THEARC) provides a space to view, discuss, make, and exhibit art. Our programs are co-created with our ...

In 1960, as Phillips was working with architects Wyeth and King to design an adjoining building to accommodate his growing collection, he designated a specific room for Rothko’s paintings, making the ...

Showcasing the museum’s historic and ongoing support of living artists, the exhibition features recent contemporary ...

Using Metrorail, take the Red Line to Dupont Circle station and take the Q Street exit from the station. Go left (west) one block on Q Street to 21st Street, NW. The museum is located at 1600 21st ...

Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage is the first large-scale exhibition dedicated to exploring collage by contemporary Black American artists such as Mark Bradford, Kerry James ...

The Phillips Collection is committed to bringing Duncan Phillips’s “intimate museum combined with an experiment station” into the work environment. The Phillips seeks to build its dedicated and ...

Duncan Phillips was always fascinated by the relationship between music and the visual arts. In 1915 he wrote that while music provides people with “spiritual nourishment and exultation … paintings ...

Browse The Phillips Collection’s growing collection of nearly 6,000 works.

The Migration Series, Panel no. 1: During World War I there was a great migration north by southern African Americans. (between 1940 and 1941) ...