La Salle University Art Museum owns special collections of non-Western and ancient art, including over 100 Japanese Ukiyo-e and Modern prints from the 19th and 20th centuries; 70 sub-Saharan African sculptures from the 19th and 20th centuries; 165 Indian miniatures from the 17th to the 19th centuries; 160 Chinese ceramics from Neolithic period through the Ming Dynasty (7,000 BCE - 1,644 CE); 70 Pre-Columbian textiles and ceramics (200 BCE - c. 1,500 CE); and 50 ancient Greek Tanagra figurines and ceramics from the Mycenaean through the Hellenistic periods (1,300 BCE - 27 BCE).

View objects with your class in the Art Museum, or bring the Art Museum into your classroom with our Online Collections Database:

ASIAN ART           AFRICAN ART        LATIN AMERICAN ART      MEDITERRANEAN ART

You can also search the collection by artist's nationality: Search by Nationality

This guide was created for faculty to use independently. It includes a self-tour of paintings by PAFA-affiliated artists at the La Salle University Art Museum and a resource list for where to go to view more artworks by these artists.

Contents

Brief History of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Distinctive Characteristics of PAFA Training

• Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827)
• James Peale (1749-1831)
• Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860)
• Sarah Miriam Peale (1800-1885)
• William Trost Richards (1833-1905)
• Christian Schuessele (1824-1879)
• Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)
• Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937)
• William Glackens (1870-1938)
• Sidney Goodman (1936-2013)
• Nelson Shanks (1937-2015)
• Bo Bartlett (b. 1955)
• David McShane (b. 1965)

Addresses and Websites for other Institutions

See our Online Collections Database for artworks grouped into themes such as women artists, African-American artists, religion in art, portraiture in art: Themes