The Philadelphia Show features a loan exhibit every year, a tradition since the Show’s founding in 1962. The curated, museum-quality loan exhibit changes with each Show and allows visitors a closer look at specific genre of antiques.

This year’s loan exhibition Faces in the Crowd celebrates faces in a post-pandemic world by exploring works of art that incorporate a myriad of faces.

The loan exhibit is curated by Alexandra Kirtley, the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Montgomery-Garvan Curator of American Decorative Arts and long time supporter of the show, Joan Johnson.

Fire Hat of the Pennsylvania Fire Co., mid-19th century, Attributed to David Bustill Bowser (1890-1900), 7 inches high, Courtesy of Robert and Kathy Booth
Portrait of a Gentleman, 1807, John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840), 3 1/8 x 2 ½ inches, Courtesy of Richard and Ginger Dietrich Leaping Stag
Possibly by A.L. Jewell & Company (1852-1867), Courtesy Jeffrey Tillou Miniature Inlaid Dower Chest (Detail)
Berks County, Pennsylvania, ca 1760, Courtesy Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Inc. Portrait of a Gentleman, 1807, John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840), 3 1/8 x 2 ½ inches, Courtesy of Richard and Ginger Dietrich Leaping Stag
Possibly by A.L. Jewell & Company (1852-1867), Courtesy Jeffrey Tillou Miniature Inlaid Dower Chest (Detail)
Berks County, Pennsylvania, ca 1760, Courtesy Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Inc. Portrait of a Gentleman, 1807, John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840), 3 1/8 x 2 ½ inches, Courtesy of Richard and Ginger Dietrich Leaping Stag
Possibly by A.L. Jewell & Company (1852-1867), Courtesy Jeffrey Tillou Miniature Inlaid Dower Chest (Detail)
Berks County, Pennsylvania, ca 1760, Courtesy Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Inc.

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