Upcoming Exhibits
The Hitchcock Foundation Collection
In the Lower-Level Gallery
This exhibit is closed, will reopen May 17th, 2025
The Hitchcock Foundation and the Phippen Museum proudly announce a collaboration aimed at enriching public access to art in our community. This unique partnership brings forth a curated collection of captivating artwork, uniting the Foundation’s commitment to provide a repository for the collection with the Museum’s dedication to preserving and showcasing artistic excellence in western art. This special exhibition is now on display in our Lower Level Gallery until March 3rd, 2024, when the Arizona Pastel Artist Association’s 8th Annual Exhibition opens . However, the collection will return on May 5th, 2024.
You won’t want to miss this special personal collection of Ed Hitchcock’s western art, a portion of which was previously located at the Lobo Ranch in Paulden, AZ.
To learn more about the Lobo Ranch and The Hitchcock Foundation, click here.
Lobo Ranch Roping, oil, Bill Owen CA
Hold Your Horses! Exhibition & Sale
In the Marley Gallery
July 25th
The Phippen Museum’s annual Hold Your Horses! Invitational Exhibition & Sale is dedicated to that loyal and hard-working companion of all mankind…the horse. This inspirational presentation of outstanding artwork features fine artists who are recognized specifically for their outstanding ‘art of the horse’.
The close relationship shared between horses and humans has dramatically changed both species over time. And people have bred horses to make them faster, stronger, bigger, or smaller. But horses have also changed humans in dramatic ways. How we have traveled, traded, played, worked, and fought wars have all been profoundly shaped by our relationship with the horse.
In fact, this majestic animal has arguably had a greater impact on the evolution of human civilization than any other. And their powerful influence on mankind is just one of the many reasons this event was created.
So we hope you will join us for this popular, annual tribute to the very versatile and incredibly steadfast horse.
Click: Light Up the West
Marley Gallery
October 11th, 2025
Opening Reception & Members Preview on Friday, October 10th, 2025 at 5:30PM
Commercially introduced in 1839, practical photography was a cumbersome process requiring loads of equipment and lots of time. And while the tools and chemicals necessary to create photographic images were bulky and caustic, they were hauled through some of the most unforgiving environments in America to create the first portraits and landscapes of the American West.
Thank you to our participating Click artists, recording the West and capturing images of its diverse people, places and wildlife still hold the same magic and fascination it did for their predecessors some 150 years ago.
The Dance by Kathy McCraine
