The Philadelphia Artwork Museum (PAM) will mount an exhibition subsequent yr bringing collectively two of Vincent van Gogh’s iconic “Sunflower” work, in accordance to the Artwork Newspaper (TAN).
The exhibition, which is about to run from June 6 to October 11, 2026, shall be titled “Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: A Symphony in Blue and Yellow”. It’ll characteristic the PAM’s Sunflowers (1889), with its distinct turquoise background, and the artist’s authentic iteration of the topic Sunflowers (1888), with the better-known yellow background.
The exhibition is a part of an ongoing collaboration between the 2 establishments. The PAM loaned its Sunflowers to the Nationwide Gallery final yr for an present, marking the primary time the work had left the museum since its acquisition in 1963. The Nationwide Gallery Sunflowers, which it acquired in 1924, has solely traveled overseas 4 occasions.
A PAM spokesperson advised TAN that the exhibition “will carry collectively two Sunflower work, contemplating how the artist used coloration and brushwork to totally different expressive results.”
On the Nationwide Gallery exhibition, titled “Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers”, the 2 work hung in a triptych association with the artist’s 1889 portrait Lullaby: Madame Augustine Roulin Rocking a Cradle (La Berceuse), now owned by the Museum of Positive Arts, Boston, hanging the center. The show was one which was initially conceived of by van Gogh, in accordance to the Nationwide Gallery.
Forward of that exhibition, the PAM Sunflowers was reframed, ditching an ornate body that it had doubtless had for a century, in response to TAN. The museum opted for a less complicated body just like the one the Nationwide Gallery had placed on its Sunflowers in 1999.
The information of the PAM exhibition comes days after the museum’s director was terminated for “trigger” by the museum’s board of trustees, in accordance to a report by Philadelphia Journal. Although it isn’t solely clear what that trigger was, it has been broadly reported that the choice was doubtless associated to the museum’s controversial rebranding, which embody a brand new identification and a reputation change: the Philadelphia Museum of Artwork would now be generally known as the Philadelphia Artwork Museum.
