The Lancaster Museum of Art’s collection contains over 400 pieces representing 200+ artists. Most works are 2D paintings, drawings, and collages, though we do have ceramic, wood, and metal sculptures. The collection is periodically displayed in special exhibitions. A long-term goal for our organization is to have the full collection accessible online. Below are highlights of our Permanent Collection that have been featured in recent exhibitions.

Fluid watercolor painting of green spring foliage, including some yellow flowers, red flowers, and white daisies, with washes of blue, green, and yellow watercolors in the background

Eva Stina Bender | Spring Floral

Year: 1991

Medium: watercolor on paper

Dimensions: 16 x 20 inches

Credit Line: gift courtesy of Mildred H. McQueen

Watercolor painting of a white tea cup in the center of the image with a gold rim, with four red cherries and a stem sitting inside the cup. The tea cup sits on a rumpled white tablecloth.

Eva Stina Bender | Still life - white tea cup

Year: 20th Century

Medium: watercolor on paper

Dimensions: 10 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches

Credit Line: gift courtesy of Mildred H. McQueen

An abstract charcoal sketch of a woman from the bust up with small black charcoal dots in the background. The woman’s eyes, nose, and mouth are made from washes of black watercolor.

David Brumbach | Untitled #1 (Sick Bed Series)

Year: c. 1985

Medium: sepia charcoal and watercolor

Credit Line: given in loving memory of Ellen Degez McCabe by her three children

A man’s eyes, nose, open mouth, and ears are suggested with a wash of black watercolor, floating in the left-center portion of the paper

David Brumbach | Untitled #2 (Sick Bed Series)

Year: c. 1985

Medium: sepia charcoal and watercolor

Credit Line: given in loving memory of Ellen Degez McCabe by her three children

A charcoal sketch of a the top of a man’s head surrounded by stripes in the background, with eyes, nose, a mouth, and ears created with a wash of black watercolor, with the man’s body left undefined

David Brumbach | Untitled #3 (Sick Bed Series)

Year: c. 1985

Medium: sepia charcoal and watercolor

Credit Line: given in loving memory of Ellen Degez McCabe by her three children

A top of a man’s head created with a watercolor outline, with a checkerboard pattern on top of his head, and eyes, mouth, and a nose created with smudged charcoal and watercolor wash

David Brumbach | Untitled #4 (Sick Bed Series)

Year: c. 1985

Medium: sepia charcoal and watercolor

Credit Line: given in loving memory of Ellen Degez McCabe by her three children

A vertical painting of close-up architectural details, including a tower of light brown brick with arched windows, and moldings with curved shapes topped by spheres with floral decorations. A bright blue sky is visible at the top of the painting.

Gerald M. Cloud | Lancaster City Hall

Year: 1987

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 60 7/16 x 40 3/8 inches

A photograph of a collage of items, including a black and white photograph of a man wearing a black coat, white shirt, and black tie, placed in a light wooden frame with a black and white butterfly in the corner; an aged, rolled newspaper, tied with…

Ursula Connaughton | My Father’s War No. 1

Year: 1998

Medium: photograph

Dimensions: 15 15/16 x 15 7/16 inches

Painting of three versions of the same person, all with brown skin and short black hair, against a dark green background mixed with patches of yellow; a person is in the bottom left, center, and top right of the painting

Malcolm Corley | Three Faces of Malcolm

Year: 2019

Medium: acrylic on canvas board

Credit Line: purchased with funds from the Pursuit of Equity Prize

Watercolor painting of buildings, with a blue building in the foreground, a white building in the middleground, and a yellow building in the background, with a blue sky at the top

Ann DeLaurentis | City Blue and Gold

Year: 2005

Medium: watercolor

Credit Line: gift of an anonymous donor

Watercolor painting of a pink lotus blossom that is closed surrounded by green leaves with a brown stem. A pool with blue water and a tan sidewalk is painted in the background.

Ann DeLaurentis | Closed Lotus Blossom

Year: 21st Century

Medium: watercolor on paper

Dimensions: 7 x 5 inches

Credit Line: gift courtesy of Mildred H. McQueen

Watercolor painting of buildings, with a red rowhome building in the front, another red building to the left, and a large yellow building with many windows in the background

Ann DeLaurentis | I See the City in Red and Gold

Year: 2009

Medium: watercolor

Credit Line: gift of an anonymous donor

Painting of a man sitting in the foreground wearing a blue shirt and brown hat and a woman sitting on a chair in the background wearing glasses and a yellow dress, with dots of red, blue, and yellow around the figures

Cheryl Elmo | Not Far from the Tree

Year: 2020

Medium: watercolor

A black pen line drawing of two people-like figures with hollow, circular heads interconnecting in the center of the image. Both figures are floating on their side and are surrounded by black lines indicating motion.

Keith Haring | For Kathi

Year: 1984

Medium: pen on paper

Dimensions: 8 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches

Credit Line: gift courtesy of Kathi and John Markley, in memory of Henry Franco

A sculpture with a wooden rectangular base, with a rusted hinge and curved piece of metal on the front. On top of the wooden base, there is a metal wheel, a small metal ruler standing up, a wire basket with small grey spheres inside, a piece of brow…

Heather Heilman Loercher | Walk The Earth

Year: 2005

Medium: found object sculpture

A watercolor paining of 5 white irises with green stems and leaves, with stripes of blue, red, and purple in the background

Joann Hensel | White Iris

Year: 1999

Medium: watercolor on paper

Dimensions: 10 x 13 3/4 inches

Credit Line: gift courtesy of Mildred H. McQueen

A watercolor painting of a red wooden barn, next to a grey paved road, surrounded by green trees and a light brown field. The sky is overcast with hints of grey, white, and small amounts of blue.

Richard G. Hess | Red Barn and Trees

Year: n.d.

Medium: watercolor

Dimensions: 10 1/2 x 14 5/8 inches

A colored pencil drawing of a close-up of the corner of a mantel, with a small, wooden model house with a green roof and 6 windows, with yellow light coming out of the top left window, with a sky and curtain behind the mantel

Richard William Huck | Model House Upon Cornice Mantel LEdge

Year: 1991

Medium: pencil and colored pencil

Dimensions: 6 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches

Credit Line: gift courtesy of Mildred H. McQueen

An abstract painting of green grass in the foreground, dark green bushes, a stripe of brown on the horizon, and a blue sky, with spots of blue, pink, orange, and brown throughout the painting

Robert Hustead | Landscape

Year: 20th Century

Medium: watercolor, pastel, and gouache on paper

Dimensions: 9 x 13 3/4 inches

Credit Line: gift courtesy of Mildred H. McQueen

A black and white photograph of a foggy nature scene, with a flowing river, 5 large rocks, and a tree with a thin trunk and small leaves in the center of the image, with other trees in the background

Joseph Hyde | River Tree

Year: n.d.

Medium: silver print

Dimensions: 17 3/8 x 13 3/4 inches

A painting of a room with pink walls and black and white checkerboard floors. A woman in a black dress stands in the foreground with her hand resting on the side of her face. An oval mirror behind her reflects her image and another mirror twice. Two…

Claire Klarewicz-Okser | She Sees Herself Who Sees Herself

Year: 1987

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 40 x 49 7/8 inches

A seagull sits on top of a wooden plank in the center of the painting, surrounded by more wooden planks and the ocean and a blue sky in the background

Harold Laynor | Seascape

Year: c. 1980

Medium: watercolor on paper

Credit Line: gift courtesy of an anonymous donor

A small white house with stairs leading to two front doors, a grey roof, two windows on the first floor and two dormer windows in the roof, with antenna on the roof and a tree in the background

Margaret LEstz | 408 N. Mulberry, July 4, 1968

Year: 1968

Medium: pen, ink, and watercolor on paper

Dimensions: 3 1/4 x 4 inches

Credit Line: gift courtesy of Mildred H. McQueen

Watercolor of small pink flowers in a white pot on the left, large pink flowers in a green pot in the center, and large red flowers in a black pot and plate on the right against a grey background

Margaret Lestz | Three Pots of Flowers

Year: 1991

Medium: watercolor

Dimensions: 22 x 27 inches

Credit Line: gift of an anonymous donor given in memory of Caroline Steinman Nunan

A watercolor painting of a group of white cyclamen flowers with green leaves in a green pot, sitting on a white table, with a dark grey watercolor background

Margaret LEstz | White Cyclamen

Year: 1994

Medium: watercolor on paper

Dimensions: 6 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches

Credit Line: gift courtesy of Mildred H. McQueen

Graphite drawing of two round beets sitting next to each other. The left beet's roots point to the top of the drawing, and the right beet's roots point to the bottom right corner of the drawing.

Henry Libhart | Beets

Year: n.d.

Medium: graphite on paper

Credit Line: gift of Susan Nation Collins

Graphite drawing of a mouse standing on its hind legs, holding its tail in its left hand

Henry Libhart | Mouse

Year: 1980

Medium: graphite on paper

Credit Line: gift of Susan Nation Collins

A realistic watercolor painting of a large purple eggplant in the center of the composition, surrounded by 6 yellow and light green anjou pears on a white background

Henry Libhart | Still Life - Eggplant and Pears

Year: 1987

Medium: watercolor on paper

Dimensions: 9 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches

Credit Line: gift courtesy of Mildred H. McQueen

An abstract watercolor and ink still life of a blue bottle, purple eggplant, red apple, two orange pears, and a small white vase, sitting on a dark grey table with a dark grey and black background

Robert Lyon | Still Life

Year: 20th Century

Medium: ink and watercolor on paper

Dimensions: 6 1/4 x 6 inches

Credit Line: gift courtesy of Mildred H. McQueen

A watercolor painting with washes of blue on top, a green horizon with small red shapes, including a tall triangle like a steeple, with green and yellow washes blending together on the bottom of the painting

Robert Lyon | Untitled

Year: n.d.

Medium: watercolor

Dimensions: 13 7/16 x 10 7/16 inches

A white porcelain bowl with a narrow base that expands into a large oval shape. The bowl is shaped with curved, leaf-like patterns, and the edges of the bowl come to many different points, like the tip of a leaf.

Jennifer McCurdy | Cut Wheat Bowl

Year: n.d.

Medium: wheel thrown porcelain

A man with short black hair and mustache faces the viewer wearing a black jacket, white shirt, and black bow tie with a light grey background and visible wood grain pattern

Dan Miller | Demuth the Final Mask

Year: n.d.

Medium: relief print

A neutral-colored acrylic and chalk drawing of an Amish woman looking down, wearing a long black dress sitting in an armchair holding a white sewing project in her hands

Sarah McRae Morton | The FIve Mothers

Year: 2006

Medium: acrylic and chalk on paper

Dimensions: 8 x 7 inches

Credit Line: gift courtesy of Mildred H. McQueen

A dark canvas covered with white and grey texture, with sharp, jagged lines in black scattered throughout, with hints of dark red. 5 yellow arrows span across the top center of the piece.

Carol Morgan | 32 Degrees Fahrenheit

Year: n.d.

Medium: mixed media

Dimensions: 19 1/2 x 25 1/4 inches

A sculpture with a black, curved wooden base with 3 knobs, one on each side of the cylindrical wood. The middle and top of the sculpture is covered in black cylindrical corks, with the very top of the sculpture rounded off in a half circle with the …

Ric Morgan | Cork Cactus

Year: 1995

Medium: cork sculpture

A mixed media piece with a sitting frog as the focal point, wearing a harness with a ladder and structure that a smaller frog sits on, wielding spears. A tank with a smaller frog sitting on top is in the lower left corner. Two guns, one red, are in …

Robert Nelson | Hannibal Bufo (Frog Series)

Year: 1974

Medium: mixed media (print)

Dimensions: 26 1/8 x 36 11/16 inches

Painting of a young boy with blonde hair and blue eyes wearing a black hat and grey shirt and pants holding a book in one hand and a basket with an apple in the other hand

Kiehl Newswanger | Amish Boy

Year: n.d.

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 41 x 30 1/2 inches

Pastel drawing of orange and red wheat fields with paths of green grass between fields. 5 red trees are in the background against a blue sky and white clouds.

Barb Pappendick | Untitled Landscape

Year: n.d.

Medium: pastel

Credit Line: gift of an anonymous donor given in memory of Caroline Steinman Nunan

A black and white photograph of a man sitting in an adirondack chair, wearing a jacket, scarf, and long pants, with his hands in his jacket pockets, with hedges and a brick wall in the background

Neal Pressley | David Brumbach, Lancaster

Year: 1990

Medium: gelatin silver print

Credit Line: gift courtesy of Neal Pressley

Graphite drawing of the underside of a clam shell filled with sand, surrounded by 4 pieces of broken clam shell, all laying in grains of sand created by pencil point marks

Richard Ressel | Seashells, Sand

Year: 20th Century

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 4 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches

Credit Line: gift courtesy of Mildred H. McQueen

Gathering of many red and white radishes sit in a wooden bowl, with two radishes sitting beneath the bowl on a blue background with a red grid pattern

Luigi Rist | Corsage

Year: 1994

Medium: ink and rice paste on paper

Dimensions: 9 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches

Credit Line: gift courtesy of Mildred H. McQueen

Three yellow dandelions are in the center of the piece, surrounded by green leaves and stems, with a circle containing white dandelion seeds in the background with blue, yellow, and red sky

Luigi Rist | Dandelions

Year: 1946

Medium: pencil tracing on paper

Dimensions: 13 5/8 x 16 1/8 inches

A yellow-green pear with a grey stem is in the center of the image sitting on a dark green surface with a blue-white gradient background

Luigi Rist | The Pear II

Year: c. 1959

Medium: ink and rice paste on paper

Dimensions: 5 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches

Credit Line: gift courtesy of Mildred H. McQueen

Two red and white radishes with green leaves sit next to each other on a grey table with a red and grey grid pattern and a grey background

Luigi Rist | We Repeat

Year: c. 1957

Medium: ink and rice paste on paper

Dimensions: 3 1/2 x 4 5/8 inches

Credit Line: gift courtesy of Mildred H. McQueen

Close up of a piece of wood with a tree-like image carved into the block and strokes of green paint that look like leaves

Luigi Rist | Woodblocks for the Creation of Ida’s Lemon Tree

Year: c. 1955

Medium: carved wood (8 woodblocks)

Dimensions: 9 x 16 inches

Credit Line: gift courtesy of Mildred H. McQueen

A pastel work with a dark blue background, with a round brown bird nest in the center, with a light blue egg inside the lower right corner of the bird nest

Lee Rowan | Sign of Spring

Year: n.d.

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 8 7/16 x 11 7/16 inches

A square artwork created with all white LEGO bricks. 4 concave circles of different sizes are spread out across the center of the work, and one convex circle projects from the piece in the upper center of the work.

Nathan Sawaya | Untitled 3

Year: n.d.

Medium: LEGO brick

Dimensions: 30 1/8 x 30 1/8 inches

A young girl with blonde curly hair, a red dress, and red hair bow jumps with a red jumprope. The canvas is white with spots of distressed texture, with blue and red lines in the top center of the painting and white paint dripping down onto the girl…

Jeff Schaller | Jane of Arches

Year: n.d.

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 24 1/8 x 24 1/8 inches

A tall painting with tones of grey on the top and green on the bottom, mixing together in the center with thick, textured brushstrokes that are visible throughout the piece.

Stuart Shils | A Glance Across Doonfeeny Fields

Year: 1997

Medium: oil on paper mounted on board

Dimensions: 12 13/16 x 9 13/16 inches

Close-up painting of many red poppy flowers with green leaves, with yellow poppies scattered throughout next to the red poppies

Suk Shuglie | Red and Yellow Poppies

Year: n.d.

Medium: acrylic

Credit Line: gift of an anonymous donor given in memory of Caroline Steinman Nunan

A watercolor painting of a half of a cantaloupe, cut open, with a quarter of a cantaloupe and a red apple, all sitting on a pewter plate. Two green apples are next to the plate, sitting on a grey tablecloth. The background is a deep red, filled in w…

Judy W. Smith | Pewter Plate

Year: n.d.

Medium: watercolor

Dimensions: 20 15/32 x 28 1/16 inches

A landscape of southern Spain consisting of an orange, green, blue, red, and purple palette in pastels. The foreground has smooth waves, like sand dunes, with some green foliage in the bottom left of the piece. The middleground has tall cliffs of pu…

Virgil Sova | Sierra de Ronda (Southern Spain)

Year: n.d.

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 18 7/8 x 25 15/16 inches

Graphite drawing of a 3/4 view of a mansion with windows and shutters, a small columned porch, with tall grass, trees, and a monument topped by a sphere in the foreground

Florence Starr Taylor | Untitled (Grubb Mansion)

Year: n.d.

Medium: graphite on paper

Credit Line: gift courtesy of Ron and Virginia Ettelman

Watercolor painting of green farmland with four green trees, a fence with wood stakes and wire, and a dirt road leading to a white and red farmhouse in the background

Florence Starr Taylor | Barnyard Scene

Year: 1972

Medium: watercolor on paper

Dimensions: 14 x 20 3/4 inches

Credit Line: gift courtesy of Mildred H. McQueen

A piece made with conte crayon, featuring 3 attached houses on Vine Street in downtown Lancaster. The house on the left is the tallest and is made of black bricks. The second house is yellow with a black roof, red chimney, two upstairs windows, and…

Florence Starr Taylor | Old Vine Street

Year: n.d.

Medium: conte crayon on paper

Dimensions: 6 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches

Oil painting of a man with light skin facing the viewer, with brown hair and brown eyes, wearing a black shirt with a large collar that covers his neck

Michael Murphy Tymon | Self Portrait

Year: 2018

Medium: oil on canvas

Credit Line: gift of Timothy and Eileen Tymon, given in memory of Michael Murphy Tymon

A photo of a hotel room interior, with a window on the far left; stairs with black and pink patterned carpet and a white iron bannister in the corner that lead upstairs with a diagonal line to the right across the photo; a net hanging across the wal…

Christine Welch | Binn’s Motel, wildwood, N.j.

Year: 1994

Medium: photographic print

Dimensions: 15 3/8 x 22 3/4 inches

Printed with black ink, a tower with a round dome and a second tower with a pointed roof are in the foreground on the right side of the lithograph. A building with four steeples and a large, three-panel front door are in the background on the left, …

Barbara Whipple | Skyline: Franklin & Marshall College

Year: c. 1968

Medium: lithograph

Dimensions: 9 15/16 x 18 7/8 inches

Woodcut print of a tiger laying on the ground, looking at the viewer with his head and tail resting on his leg. The black stripes of the tiger spread out into the background on top of a brown wood grain print

Barbara Whipple | Tiger

Year: n.d.

Medium: woodcut print

Dimensions: 35 x 30 inches

An assortment of blue, orange, red, and brown glass creates an abstract image of houses and telephone lines crowded together in the piece. The top of the piece includes a blue sky with many smaller pieces of blue, yellow, and white glass in a circle…

Henry Willet | Musser Park

Year: n.d.

Medium: glass

Black and white photo of a Black child smiling in front of a table and chairs and a brick building. The child holds their arms behind their back to show their black t-shirt that says "I am somebody" in white, capital letters

Shelby Wormley | I AM Somebody

Year: 2021

Medium: metal digital print

Credit Line: purchased with funds from the Pursuit of Equity Prize

A tall wooden sculpture made from curved pieces of light and dark brown wood that create a tunnel and a tornado-like shape

David Zimmerman | Large Vase

Year: 1999

Medium: band sawed plywood

Credit Line: gift courtesy of Robert Ibold, in memory of Regine Ibold

Surrounded by a brown wooden frame, an embroidery of a small brown bird with blue and green tail feathers perches on a vine with green leaves that curls around the bird. An orange and yellow flower is on the end of the vine, and the bird rests its b…

Unknown Artist | Bird on Flower

Year: n.d.

Medium: embroidery on linen

Dimensions: 9 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches