The Percy Grainger Home and Studio holds a broad collection of objects and materials including sheet music, furnishings, musical instruments, papers and letters. The Grainger’s seemingly saved everything and the home feels like a step back into their lives in White Plains. Visitors often remark about the depth and variety of objects on view.

Exhibitions give us the opportunity to share more of the collection while providing a focus or interpretation, and can enhance our understanding of the Grainger’s lives. Our current exhibit, Paper, Line, Color: Percy Grainger as a Visual Artist, provides a glimpse into the range of Percy’s work as an artist. On display, the objects from our collection include childhood drawings, paintings, sheet music, and prototypes for many of his graphics. Samples of beadwork and textile studies demonstrate his interest and appreciation of folk art from cultures around the world.  

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The exhibits live on virtually through brochures and videos that can be found on the on the PGS website. The digital brochure for Paper, Line, Color: Percy Grainger as a Visual Artist, can be found here.

Past exhibits have included Tone, Rhythm, Pitch: Exploring Percy Grainger’s Free Music, a  look into Grainger’s experimental music machines, and Ella-Ström-Grainger at the Ferargil Gallery, a selection of her unique painted tiles originally exhibited in NYC in 1930. Brochures from these exhibits and other collection resources can be found on our Highlights from the Collection web page.