This event takes place at our New Hope location.Come visit our satellite Museum and experience the history and the future of the arts in Bucks County—in the very place where it all began. This multi-media, interactive exhibition brings to life the work of the many visual artists, authors, playwrights, lyricists and composers who have lived and worked in Bucks County. It includes individual displays on twelve of the county's best known artists, a video theater and a comprehensive computerized database containing information on hundreds of Bucks County artists, both living and deceased.

Artists featured
Pearl S. Buck, author and humanitarian
Daniel Garber, Pennsylvania Impressionist painter
Oscar Hammerstein II, writer and lyricist
Moss Hart, playwright and director
Edward Hicks, American primitive painter
George S. Kaufman, playwright and director
Henry Chapman Mercer Architect, ceramic artist, collector
Dorothy Parker, author, humorist and screenwriter
S.J. Perelman, author, humorist and screenwriter
Charles Sheeler, precisionist painter and photographer
Edward Redfield, Pennsylvania Impressionist painter
Jean Toomer, author associated with the Harlem Renaissance

 

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