Georgia O’Keeffe, Red Canna, 1923. Oil on canvas. 12 x 9 7/8 in. Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. The Vivian O. and Meyer P. Potamkin Collection, Bequest of Vivian O. Potamkin, 2003.1.8. © 2024 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.

PEM Making History: 200 years of American Art Comes to the Peabody Essex Museum

Natalie GaleSeptember 15, 2025

This summer, a lineup of iconic American paintings comes to Salem for the first time. The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) hosts a traveling exhibit called Making History: 200 Years of American Art, carrying with it some of the most famous works from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA). Want to see works like Georgia O’Keeffe’s Red Canna, Gilbert Stuart’s George Washington (The Lansdowne Portrait), or Stuart Davis’s Ultra-Marine in person? Then head to the PEM now through September 21. The Making History exhibit, which opened at PEM on June 14, includes 85 works from PAFA’s collection, all of which were created between

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