When looking at the photographs of Imogen Cunningham, we encounter images that reflect vital developments in 20th century art and photography — as well as the voice and eye of an undersung master of the camera. Cunningham was a female member of the male-dominated f/64 group of photographers and, despite the art-world’s tendency to overlook women artists, left her indelible stamp on the history and development of modern photography. In Seen & Unseen: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham, featuring work from across Cunningham’s expansive seven-decade career, we invite you to see why this American artist is heralded as one of the most important pioneers of photography — regardless of her gender.

An original Polk Museum of Art exhibition, Edward Hopper and Guy Pène du Bois: Painting the Real comprises approximately sixty works and focuses on Hopper and Pène du Bois, two very thematically different but stylistically-overlapping artists who became lifelong friends from the time of their earliest studies at the New York School of Art.

Part of our permanent collection, Hungry Planet and Material World are two exhibitions focused on showing viewers the differences between countries around the world in what they eat and what they own.

The Von Wagner Code is a unique Polk Museum of Art curated exhibition inspired by the rediscovery of a damaged, long-lost painting on the Florida Southern College campus and the exciting search for answers about its origins.

Masters of Spain: Goya and Picasso brings a rare showcase of work by two of the greatest Spanish painters of all time. Experience this exhibition as an audio tour. 

Painting A Nation: Hudson River School Landscapesfrom the Higdon Collection was organized by the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina.

In this exhibition of selected works from the Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College’s permanent collection, we will explore the concept of what it means to call something an American work of art. 

Long a household name, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is considered to be one of the great nineteenth-century masters.