Philadelphia Museum of Art to display two of Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” paintings
The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PAM) will host an exhibition next year featuring two of Vincent van Gogh’s iconic paintings, “Sunflowers,” according to the museum The Art Newspaper (Tan).
The exhibition will be held from June 6 to October 11, 2026, with the theme “Van Gogh’s Sunflowers: A Symphony of Blue and Yellow.” It will have PAM sunflower (1889), features a distinctive turquoise background, and the artist’s original iteration of the subject sunflower (1888), with the better known yellow background.
The exhibition is part of an ongoing collaboration between the two institutions. PAM lends its sunflower Last year the work went to the National Gallery for an exhibition, the first time it had left the museum since its acquisition in 1963. sunflowerThe company was acquired in 1924 and has only traveled abroad four times.
A PAM spokesperson told Tan The exhibition “will bring together two sunflower paintings to consider how the artist used color and brushwork to achieve different expressive effects.”
The two paintings hang as a triptych alongside an 1889 portrait of the artist in the National Gallery exhibition titled Van Gogh: Poet and Lover Lullaby: La Berceuse by Madame Augustin Roulinnow owned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, hangs in the center. According to the National Gallery, the exhibition was originally conceived by Van Gogh.
Before that exhibition, PAM sunflower According to reports, it was redesigned, abandoning the ornate frame that may have been a century old Tan. The museum opted for a simpler frame, similar to the one the National Gallery placed on sunflower 1999.
According to news from the PAM exhibition, a few days ago the director of the museum was fired by the museum’s board of directors for “reasons” philadelphia magazine. While it’s not entirely clear what the reason is, it has been widely reported that the decision may be related to the museum’s controversial rebranding, which includes a new identity and name change: The Philadelphia Museum of Art will now be known as the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
