New Exhibitions at Allentown Art Museum

The Museum’s world-class collection ranges from a Rembrandt oil painting—his Portrait of a Young Woman from 1632—to photographs, prints, textiles, and contemporary works such as a Yinka Shonibare sculpture and video art presented in a dedicated screening room. Step into the Library of the Francis Little House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Other aspects of the permanent collections focus on American Painting & Sculpture, non-Western art, Textiles and Costume, Tiffany Windows, and more.

Along with permanent collections, the Museum features new and exciting exhibitions, like the arrival of Revolution Retold: Commemorating American Independence in Art and Design, a nod to our nation's Semiquincentennial running from June 4 through October 18. You can also see the Kay WalkingStick/Hudson River School exhibit running from June 20 through October 11. Read more about the exhibit below, along with info about admission (free for all, always!) and parking information to plan your visit today.

What does the American Revolution mean to us today? This exhibition explores how artists and designers have answered this question, from 1826 through the twenty-first century.

Revolution Retold features a wide range of material—from flasks and furnishing fabrics to contemporary prints. Such works often depict iconic Revolutionary figures or events, intending to recall American history and values. In this exhibition, they also reveal an enduring fascination with the story of our nation, and how we look to the past to make sense of the present.

Organized by the New-York Historical Society, Kay WalkingStick / Hudson River School places landscape paintings by the renowned, contemporary Cherokee artist Kay WalkingStick in conversation with highlights from New-York Historical’s collection of 19th-century Hudson River School paintings. This artistic dialogue showcases how WalkingStick’s work both connects to and diverges from the Hudson River School tradition and explores the agency of art in shaping humankind’s relationship to the land.

The exhibition celebrates a shared reverence for nature while engaging crucial questions about land dispossession and its reclamation by Indigenous peoples and nations and exploring the relationship between Indigenous art and American art history.

The Allentown Art Museum is pleased to showcase its acquisition of two extraordinary stained-glass windows by the renowned Tiffany Studios of New York. The monumental windows, dating from the early 20th century, were designed by Tiffany Studios lead designer Agnes Northrop (1857-1953), who collaborated with Louis Comfort Tiffany in pioneering landscapes as a subject for memorial windows. Many of her memorial designs used rivers as a metaphor for the passage of life, including these, and one of the two windows portrays a scene of waning light that suggests the tranquility of a setting sun.

The windows are examples of Northrop’s signature style and transcendent achievements in early 20th-century American decorative art, created by a female artist at the height of her creative powers.

Tiffany Studios (American, 1902-1932), design attributed to Agnes Northrop (American, 1857-1953), Thompson Memorial Window, 1913 (left), and Derr Memorial Window, 1919 (right), leaded Favrile glass. Allentown Art Museum: purchase, Leigh Schadt and Edwin Schadt Art Museum Trust Fund and with the generous support of more than 220 donors to the Tiffany Windows Campaign 2017-2025. (2024.8.1, 2)

Admission to the Allentown Art Museum and galleries is Free for All, Always, thanks to generous sponsors. Hours are Thursday through Sunday 11 a.m.-4 p.m. and Third Thursdays 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Parking is free in the Museum lot at Fifth and Linden Streets.

Planning on checking out this exhibit? Parking for Allentown Art Museum is free in the Museum lot at Fifth and Linden Streets. You'll also find metered parking on Fifth & Linden Streets, as well as nearby parking decks.

The Allentown Art Museum is welcoming two more upcoming exhibits in 2026—Idyllic Vision: The Hudson River School and American Landscape and Ellen Berkenblit: The Peacock Room, alongside a variety of works currently on view. Plan your visit to see all the installations before they're gone.