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Woodmere Opening Reception: Bodies and Souls

March 14 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Celebrate with Woodmere at the Opening Reception for

Bodies and Souls:

The Robert and Frances Coulborn Kohler Collection

Saturday, March 14, 2026 | 2 – 4 pm

Charles Knox Smith Hall, Woodmere

9201 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19118

Free and Open to the Public

Refreshments will be provided

Featuring a Gallery Talk With Robert Cozzolino, independent curator, art historian, and critic
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Bodies and Souls traces the imaginative and ethical force of representational art while celebrating the growth of Woodmere’s collection through the generous underwriting of Robert and Frances Coulborn Kohler. Woodmere’s continuing partnership with the Kohlers is grounded in a commitment to Philadelphia’s artists and to works in which visibility and self-definition are actively claimed.

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Lecture
APR 18

2 PM

Artists’ Talk: Henry Bermudez and

Judith Schaechter on Bodies and Souls.

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Bodies and Souls is presented concurrently with an exhibition of the same title featuring the Kohlers’ personal collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

 

Images in order of appearance:

The RainMakers Dance, 2018, by Henry Bermudez. Museum purchase with funds generously provided by Robert and Frances Kohler, 2022.

Greta & Devon (In a Meadow), 1983, by Frank Galuszka. Gift of Frances & Robert Kohler, 2019.

Charles Searles, Dancer #1, 1974. Museum purchase with funding generously provided by Robert & Frances Kohler, 2025.

Bathing, 1945, by Jessie Drew-Bear. Museum purchase with funding generously provided by Robert & Frances Kohler, 2024.

Fish on a Plate, 1982, by Joan Wadleigh Curran. Gift of Frances and Robert Kohler, 2011.

Oshun Whospers (Woshiper), 1988, by Twins Seven-Seven. Museum purchase with funds generously provided by Robert and Frances Kohler, 2019.

Image of a Nursery Rhyme, 1992, by Anne Minich. Museum purchase with funds provided by Robert E. and Frances Coulborn Kohler, 2016.
Woodmere | 9201 Germantown Avenue | Philadelphia, PA 19118 US
March 14 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
https://woodmereartmuseum.org/experience/exhibitions/bodies-souls-robert-and-frances-coulborn-kohler-collection

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Woodmere Art Museum
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Woodmere Art Museum
9201 Germantown Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19118-3520 United States + Google Map
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