Current Exhibitions

The Delaware Art Museum regularly presents major traveling exhibitions, offering the community an opportunity to become familiar with a wide variety of artists and artistic movements. The Museum also displays smaller exhibitions, often assembled from its permanent collection, to complement larger shows or to bring select works to light.

January 28, 2012 – April 22, 2012
	A Secret Book of Designs: The Burne-Jones Flower Book Between 1882 and 1898 Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) created a series of circular images, each inspired by the name of a flower. In 1905 (after the artist’s death) these representations were published as individual collotypes with stenciled watercolor additions in a technique called pochoir. The portrayals are so brilliantly printed they are often mistaken as original watercolors. Only 300 editions of this publication were printed. This exhibition will feature all 38 images from this edition, recently acquired for the Museum’s Helen Farr Sloan Library & Archives.
January 14, 2012 – March 4, 2012
	Dana Pyle's Howard Pyle Miniatures Dana J. Pyle, Jr., a local artist and distant descendant of famed illustrator Howard Pyle, is a Masterpieces in Miniature fan favorite. This year, eight of Dana’s riveting one-inch to one-foot scale miniatures inspired by Howard Pyle paintings will have an exhibition all their own.

November 12, 2011 – March 4, 2012
	Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered In celebration of the centenary of the death of the American artist and illustrator Howard Pyle (1853 – 1911), the Delaware Art Museum is presenting a comprehensive retrospective exhibition.  Pyle was one of America’s most popular illustrators and storytellers during a period of explosive growth in the publishing industry.
September 7, 2011 – December 2012
	The Storyteller’s Art: Reimagining America through Illustration In preparation for the Museum’s signature Centennial exhibition, Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered, the Museum’s illustration galleries will undergo a complete reinstallation. Visitors will be able to view rarely-seen works by Howard Pyle and other prominent American illustrators from the Museum’s permanent collection.