The painter Benjamin West (1738–1820): President of the Royal Academy of Arts in London
The historian and author Amandus Johnson (1877–1974): Founding curator of the American Swedish Historical Museum
Architect Louis Kahn (1901–1974): Architect of the Yale University Art Gallery
Artist and antiques expert Jonathan Leo Fairbanks (b. 1933): Founding curator of the American decorative arts and sculpture department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Architect, urban designer and author Laurence S. Cutler and art dealer and collector Judy Goffman Cutler (b. 1940): Husband–and–wife team of Penn alums who co–founded the National Museum of American Illustration in Newport, R.I.
