Locks Gallery

Philadelphia


Exhibitions change every six weeks or so at this long-running gallery specializing in contemporary painting and sculpture by both local and international artists. It occupies a handsome Italianate Palazzo–style building, dating from 1918, and formerly occupied by a publishing house.


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