Fisher Fine Arts Library

Restricted Access During Reading Period & Final Exams 📚

Access to the Fisher Fine Arts Library will be restricted from Thursday, April 30th through Tuesday, May 12th to individuals who hold one of the following credentials: a valid PennCard, an institutional ID from the University of Pennsylvania Health System (HUP, CHOP, Pennsylvania Presbyterian Hospitals, or UPHS affiliate), a Library Courtesy Card, a Penn Alumni Card, or a Penn Fund Library Alumni Access Card.

Best of luck on your final exams!

Questions? Email us: [email protected]

Image credit: Rau, William H. (photographer), 1898, University Archives

Spring break is here!🌷 The Fine Arts Library is closing at 5pm today, March 6th, and will have reduced hours during spring break:

Saturday, March 7 & Sunday, March 8: Closed
Monday, March 9 to Friday, March 13: 9am to 5pm
Saturday, March 14 & Sunday, March 15: Closed

We will resume regular semester hours on Monday, March 16th.

A few weeks ago, the Fine Arts Library welcomed Urban Sketchers Philadelphia, a group of artists, designers, illustrators and sketching enthusiasts who love to draw on location, both indoor and outdoors, and tell the stories of their surroundings. Here is a sampling of the beautiful sketches made during their visit.

💕If you were a book, you'd be fine print.💕

Happy Valentine's Day from the Fisher Fine Arts Library!

Featured books:
1) Love, maybe : intimacy and desire in contemporary art
Call # NX650.I585 L68 2025
2) Renaissance love : eros, passion, and friendship in Italian art around 1500
Call # NX552.A1 R463 2014
3) Love story : new photography of love and intimacy
Call # TR680 .H36 2023

Poster printing happening today at alongside a "Reinterpreting the Declaration of Independence" workshop!

Check out these related books in our collection:
- Protest! A History of Social and Political Protest Graphics (N72 P6 M37 2019)
- Power To The Imagination: Artists, posters and politics (NC1806 G3 H363 2011)
- Art of the Protest: Creating, Discovering, and Activating Art for Your Revolution (N7429.3 N53 2021)