Smithsonian American Art Museum [SEP] date of official opening
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Washington, D.C.


as "The Castle"), which serves as the institution's headquarters. The Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery are housed in the Old Patent Office Building, near Washington's Chinatown. The Renwick Gallery is officially part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum but is in a separate building near the White House. Other Smithsonian museums and galleries include: the Anacostia Community Museum in Southeast Washington; the National Postal Museum near Union Station; and the National Zoo in Woodley Park. The National Gallery of Art is on
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was "The Art of Video Games" for the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC. "The Art of Video Games" exhibition opened at the Smithsonian American Art Museum on March 16, 2012 and closed on September 30, 2012. This exhibition became one of the most successful exhibitions in the history of the museum, attracting more than 23,000 visitors during its opening weekend and more than 680,000 visitors in its 6-month run at the museum. The exhibit's goal was to examine the influence of art and popular culture on
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National Air and Space Museum, the Smithsonian's largest in terms of floor space, opened in June 1976. Eleven years later, the National Museum of African Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery opened in a new, joint, underground museum between the Freer Gallery and the Smithsonian Castle. Reuse of another old building came in 1993 with the opening of the National Postal Museum in the 1904 former City Post Office building, a few city blocks from the Mall. In 2004, the Smithsonian opened the National Museum of the American
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building was never constructed. The Smithsonian American Art Museum first opened to the public in its current location in 1968 when the Smithsonian renovated the Old Patent Office Building in order to display its collection of fine art. American Art's main building, the Old Patent Office Building, is a National Historic Landmark located in Washington, D.C.'s downtown cultural district. It is considered an example of Greek Revival architecture in the United States. It was designed by architects Robert Mills, and Thomas U. Walter. During the 1990s, the Smithsonian
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the building. In 2008, the American Alliance of Museums awarded reaccreditation to the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The Smithsonian American Art Museum shares the historic Old Patent Office building with the National Portrait Gallery, another Smithsonian museum. Although the two museums' names have not changed, they are collectively known as the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture. Also under the auspices of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Renwick Gallery is a smaller, historic building on Pennsylvania Avenue across the street from the White House. The
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Design Museum). The National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum opened in the Old Patent Office Building (built in 1867) on October 7, 1968. The reuse of an older building continued with the opening of the Renwick Gallery in 1972 in the 1874 Renwick-designed art gallery originally built by local philanthropist William Wilson Corcoran to house the Corcoran Gallery of Art. The first new museum building to open since the National Museum of Natural History was the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, which opened in 1974. The
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Sculpture!, a campaign organized by Heritage Preservation: The National Institute of Conservation partnered with the Smithsonian Institution, specifically the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Throughout the 1990s, over 7,000 volunteers cataloged and assessed the condition of over 30,000 publicly accessible statues, monuments, and sculptures installed as outdoor public art across the United States. In Vermont, the survey was sponsored by the Vermont Museum and Gallery Alliance from 1992-1993 where 110 volunteers surveyed 242 sculptures dating from 1740 to 1993. The archives from the project are maintained by the
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Arts and culture of Washington, D.C.


American History, the National Museum of the American Indian, the Sackler and Freer galleries, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Arts and Industries Building, the S. Dillon Ripley Center, and the Smithsonian Institution Building (also known as "The Castle"), which serves as the institution's headquarters. The Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery are housed in the Old Patent Office Building near Washington's Chinatown. The Renwick Gallery, which is located in a separate building near the White House, is officially
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centers. The center is a division of the Smithsonian Institution. As of May 2016, the center is run by an executive director, Eduardo Díaz. At the time of its creation, the Smithsonian Institution had other entities dedicated to other minority groups: National Museum of the American Indian, Freer-Sackler Gallery for Asian Arts and Culture, African Art Museum, and the National Museum of African-American Heritage and Culture. The opening of the center was prompted, in part, by the publishing of a report called "
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History and Technology (renamed the National Museum of American History in 1980), opened in 1964. It was designed by the world-renowned firm of McKim, Mead & White. The Anacostia Community Museum, an "experimental store-front" museum created at the initiative of Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley, opened in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in 1967. That same year, the Smithsonian signed an agreement to take over the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration (now the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum


officially transferred to the Smithsonian and the museum was renamed the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design. The following year, 1969, it was renamed as the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Design. In October of that year, Lisa Taylor became the Director. The museum, which was the first Smithsonian museum outside of Washington, D.C., moved to its home at the Andrew Carnegie Mansion in 1970. The Mansion was renovated and the museum opened to the public on October 7, 1976 with the exhibition "MAN transFORMs
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April Gornik


and remain less shown than their male counterparts." Various permanent art collections include Gornik's work, including: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met), the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Hood Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Nasher Museum of Art, and many others. Two of her paintings, "Virga" (1992) and "Storm and Fires" (1990) are held in the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection. In 2007, the Smithsonian Art
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List of Smithsonian museums


The Smithsonian museums are the most widely visible part of the United States' Smithsonian Institution and consist of 20 museums and galleries as well as the National Zoological Park. 17 of these collections are located in Washington D.C., with 11 of those located on the National Mall. The remaining ones are in New York City and Chantilly, Virginia. The Arts and Industries Building, is only open for special events, and its newest museum building, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, opened in 2016. The birth of
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Art Museum has had many names over the years—Smithsonian Art Collection, National Gallery of Art (not to be confused with the current National Gallery of Art), National Collection of Fine Arts, and National Museum of American Art. The museum adopted its current name in October 2000. The collection, which was begun in 1829, was first on display in the original Smithsonian Building, now nicknamed the "Castle". The collection grew as the Smithsonian buildings grew, and the collection was housed in one or more Smithsonian
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Amber Robles-Gordon


College, Chestertown, MD 2018 "Third Eye Open", Morton Fine Art, Washington, DC 2020 American University (upcoming), American University Museum at Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC 2006 "Mother and Child: Expression of Love", Smithsonian Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History, Washington, DC 2006 "Sistahs, In Our Own Words", Banneker Douglass Museum, Annapolis, MD 2007 "A Creative Profile: Artist of the East Bank", Smithsonian Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History
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National Museum of African American History and Culture


. Many, including Mary Campbell Schmidt, saw this as a step backward, a characterization Smithsonian officials strongly disputed. To demonstrate its support for African-American history preservation, the Smithsonian held a fundraiser in March 1998 for the new center which raised $100,000. Heymann left the Smithsonian in January 1999. In the meantime, other cities moved forward with major new African-American museums. The city of Detroit opened a $38.4 million, Museum of African-American History in 1997, and the city of Cincinnati was raising
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National Portrait Gallery (United States)


The National Portrait Gallery is a historic art museum located between 7th, 9th, F, and G Streets NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States. Founded in 1962 and opened to the public in 1968, it is part of the Smithsonian Institution. Its collections focus on images of famous Americans. The museum is housed in the historic Old Patent Office Building, as is the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The two museums are the eponym for the Gallery Place Washington Metro station, located at the corner of F and
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Greta Pratt


Greta Pratt is an American photographer whose primary interests are American identity, history and myth. She is the author of two books of photographs, "Using History" (Steidl, 2005) and "In Search of the Corn Queen" (Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1994). Pratt’s work is represented in major public and private collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum: Smithsonian Institution, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Portland (Oregon) Art Museum, and Minneapolis Institute of
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Smithsonian American Art Museum


The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution. Together with its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery, SAAM holds one of the world's largest and most inclusive collections of art, from the colonial period to the present, made in the United States. The museum has more than 7,000 artists represented in the collection. Most exhibitions take place in the museum's main building, the old Patent Office
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Anne Neely


Museum and Cultural Center of Wellesley College, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, The Farnesworth Art Museum, Grenwald Center for Graphic Arts at UCLA, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, The Smithsonian’s The National Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2014 her multimedia exhibition, "Water Stories: Conversations in Paint and Sound", opened at the Museum of Science, Boston. Neely was a teacher at Milton Academy in
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Koch family foundations


American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the American Museum of Natural History. An open letter to museums from 36 members of the scientific community demanded that the Smithsonian and other museums cut any ties with the Kochs, because of worries that they would remove information on climate change. The Smithsonian countered by stating both exhibits in question did examine in great detail the impacts of climate change. The Koch Foundation responded they "have pledged or contributed more than
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Amy Sherald


York Times" described as "a stylized realism.". In 2018 she received the David C. Driskell prize from the High Museum of Art located in Atlanta, Georgia. On 10 Sep – 26 Oct 2019 at Hauser & Wirth Gallery New York, Amy Sherald's inaugural exhibition with the gallery will document contemporary African-American experience in the United States through arresting, otherworldly portrait paintings. On February 12, 2018 the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery unveiled Sherald's portrait of Michelle Obama making her the first African-American woman
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Henry Heydenryk Jr.


Louis Art Museum, Kimbell Art Museum, Norton Simon Museum, Smithsonian Institution and Cleveland Museum of Art as well as leading auction houses such as Sotheby's and Christie's. Henry Heydenryk Jr. worked with The Museum Of Modern Art’s co-founder Mary Quinn Sullivan, the director Alfred H. Barr Jr. and the senior curator Dorothy Canning Miller and framed many major paintings in the collection. In the 1970s, he was appointed the official frame consultant to The National Gallery of Art, providing frames for works dating from the early Renaissance
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Jim Campbell (artist)


, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In the fall of 2010, Campbell's work, "Scattered Light" was installed in the Madison Square Park Conservancy in Manhattan making it the largest and most extensive public art piece of his to date. Hundreds of hovering tiny lights made up a large-scale, three-dimensional public installation. His installation,
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Culture of Washington, D.C.


Hirshhorn Museum, National Museum of African American History and Culture, National Air and Space Museum, National Museum of American History, National Museum of the American Indian, National Museum of Natural History, National Portrait Gallery, National Postal Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, and the National Zoo. There are many art museums in D.C., in addition to those that are part of the Smithsonian, including the National Gallery of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the
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Robert De Niro Sr.


Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Academy Museum, Mint Museum, Parrish Art Museum, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Wadsworth Atheneum, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Yellowstone Art Museum. DC Moore Gallery represents the Estate of Robert De Niro Sr. The first exhibition of his works at the gallery was in April 2012. In June 2014, "Robert De Niro Sr. Paintings and Drawings, 1948–1989" opened at DC Moore Gallery.
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Burton Silverman


Museum of Art. Butler Institute of American Art, the Denver Art Museum, The Georgia Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The New Britain Museum, the Mint Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Delaware Art Museum , the Columbus Museum, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the Arkansas Art Center, the Seven Bridges Foundation, CT, and the Smith Museum of Auburn University. He is the recipient of 9 awards from the National Academy of Design Museum including two Henry W. Ranger Purchase Awards. He
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Tweed Museum of Art


Richard E. and Dorothy Rawlings Nelson Collection of American Indian Art, an acquisition that opened new programmatic territories. By establishing a modestly comprehensive historical canon, the Nelson collection opened the museum to build upon it by collecting contemporary (particularly Woodland) American Indian arts. Beyond its region's borders, Tweed enjoys relationships with museums around the world. Artwork circulates from the Tweed collection both nationally and internationally. Recent world exhibitions featuring artwork from Tweed’s collection have taken place at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, at the
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Julie Taymor


25 years of Taymor's work, titled 'Playing With Fire' opened in the fall of 1999 at the Wexner Center for the Arts and toured the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington D.C.) in 2000 and the Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago) in 2001, and was extended due to popular demand in each venue. In September 2009, costumes from "The Lion King" were requested and presented to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History and they are now part of the Smithsonian collection as well
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United States Bicentennial


feeling that the irate era of the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War and the Watergate constitutional crisis of 1974 had finally come to an end. In Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian Institution opened a long-term exhibition in its Arts and Industries Building that replicated the look and feel of the 1876 Centennial Exposition. Many of the Smithsonian's museum artifacts dated from the 1876 World's Fair in Philadelphia that commemorated the 100th anniversary of the independence of the United States. The Smithsonian also opened the new home of the National Air
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Harry Gamboa Jr.


for The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2019, Smithsonian National Portrait gallery. His photographs are in the permanent collection of Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. His photographs are in the permanent collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. His photographs are in the permanent collection of Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. His photographs are in the permanent collection of Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, CA His photographs are in the permanent collection of Wiliams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
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Eleanor Jones Harvey


Eleanor Jones Harvey is a senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Eleanor Harvey was born in Washington, D.C., and earned a B.A. with distinction from the University of Virginia, as well as an M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University, in Art History. She served as curator of American art at the Dallas Museum of Art from 1992-2002. In January 2003, she became the curator for the Luce Foundation Center for American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and served as the museum's Chief Curator from
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Frisbee (sculpture)


part of Save Outdoor Sculpture!, a campaign organized by Heritage Preservation: The National Institute of Conservation partnered with the Smithsonian Institution, specifically the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Throughout the 1990s, over 7,000 volunteers cataloged and assessed the condition of over 30,000 publicly accessible statues, monuments, and sculptures installed as outdoor public art across the United States. In Vermont, the survey was sponsored by the Vermont Museum and Gallery Alliance from 1992-1993 where 110 volunteers surveyed 242 sculptures dating from 1740 to 1993. The archives from the project
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Emma Willard Memorial


as well maintained in 1992 as part of Save Outdoor Sculpture!, a campaign organized by Heritage Preservation: The National Institute of Conservation partnered with the Smithsonian Institution, specifically the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Throughout the 1990s, over 7,000 volunteers cataloged and assessed the condition of over 30,000 publicly accessible statues, monuments, and sculptures installed as outdoor public art across the United States. In Vermont, the survey was sponsored by the Vermont Museum and Gallery Alliance from 1992-1993 where 110 volunteers surveyed 242 sculptures dating from 1740 to 1993
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Lorenzo Scott


Jim Farmer, August 16, 2007. Exhibition dates, July 14 - September 9, 2007. There is an accompanying CD with 24 of her Power Point slides that were shown during the program. Smithsonian Institution, "Treasures of American Art", 1995. Interactive CD-ROM highlighting 900 of the "most important works in the collection", including Scott's "Baptism of Jesus". Smithsonian Institution American Art Museum, Washington, DC. Watkins, Alison. "The Miracle Stories of Lorenzo Scott", 2008
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Richard Kurin


Anacostia Community Museum, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Latino Center and Asian Pacific American Program. Several months later, art was added to Kurin's portfolio as he took on oversight of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Freer and Sackler Galleries of Art, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, National Museum of African Art, and Archives of American Art. In 2009, Secretary G. Wayne Clough made the appointment permanent. In addition to overseeing museums and programs, Kurin
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The West as America Art Exhibition


The West as America, Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820–1920, an art exhibition organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum (then known as the National Museum of American Art, or NMAA) in 1991, caused an unforeseen controversy and according to art critics, "engaged the public in the debate over western revisionism on an unprecedented scale." The paintings at the Smithsonian American Art Museum represent the United States' government's oldest art collection and in its 160-year history the museum had not received much detrimental publicity before this exhibition
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Judithe Hernández


the Smithsonian American Art Museum from works in their permanent collection. "Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art" opened in October 2013. After closing in January 2014, the exhibition traveled to several other museums throughout the United States, including the Crocker Museum in California, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City, and the Hunter Museum of Art in Tennessee. In 2017, Hernández will again have work in multiple exhibitions of the Getty Foundation sponsored Pacific Standard Time LA/LA which explores the influence of
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Walter Hopps


Hopps will be here in 20 minutes." From 1972 to 1979, Hopps was curator of 20th-Century American Art at the Smithsonian's National Collection of Fine Arts (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum). He commented to an interviewer about that period, saying that working for bureaucrats at the Smithsonian was "like moving through an atmosphere of Seconal." Nevertheless, he curated notable exhibitions at the Smithsonian, including a large-scale 1976 retrospective of Robert Rauschenberg that was the museum's Bicentennial observance. In 1979,
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Washington, D.C.


2013. The most visited museum is the National Museum of Natural History on the National Mall. Other Smithsonian Institution museums and galleries on the mall are: the National Air and Space Museum; the National Museum of African Art; the National Museum of American History; the National Museum of the American Indian; the Sackler and Freer galleries, which both focus on Asian art and culture; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; the Arts and Industries Building; the S. Dillon Ripley Center; and the Smithsonian Institution Building (also known
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Charles M. Carrillo


Charles M. Carrillo (born 1956, Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American artist, author, and archeologist known particularly for creating art using Spanish colonial techniques that reflect 18th-century Spanish New Mexico. Carrillo's works have shown throughout the USA and are a part of many permanent collections in United States museums including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, DC, the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, and the Denver Museum of Art among others. Carrillo is also the
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George Joseph Mess


recipient of several prizes and awards for his art from the Hoosier Salon, the Herron Art Institute, the Indiana State Fair, and the Indiana Artists Club. Mess's work is represented in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Indiana Historical Society, and Minnetrista, among others. His illustrations appear in several publications such as "Hoosier City" (1943) and "Living in Indiana" (1946). At the Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Indian in a new building near the United States Capitol. Twelve years later almost to the day, in 2016, the latest museum opened: the National Museum of African American History and Culture, in a new building near the Washington Monument. In 2011, the Smithsonian undertook its first-ever capital fundraising campaign. The $1.5 billion effort raised $1 billion at the three-year mark. Smithsonian officials made the campaign public in October 2014 in an effort to raise the remaining $500 million. More than 60,000 individuals
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Ray Yoshida


of Extraordinary Values" at John Michael Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan Wisconsin, displayed Yoshida's personal collection of over 2600 objects and artworks which was donated to the Kohler Foundation after his death. The Art Institute of Chicago, the Hawaii State Art Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum are among the public collections holding work by Ray Yoshida. The papers of Ray Yoshida are now held at the Archives of American Art, part of the Smithsonian Institution.
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Conservation and restoration at the Smithsonian Institution


of America's Spacesuits: Problems in Modern Materials by Mary T. Baker & Ed McManus At the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Lunder Conservation Center, serves as the conservation center for three Smithsonian units; the American Art Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Renwick Gallery. Lunder is the first art conservation facility to allow the public permanent behind-the-scenes views of the preservation work of museums. The Center features floor-to-ceiling glass walls that allow the public to view all aspects of conservation work—
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Masami Teraoka


he was featured in a solo exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution and in 1997 at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco. His work is in more than 50 public collections worldwide, including the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D. C.; the Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York;
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Arts and Industries Building


, 2015, Smithsonian Acting Secretary Albert Horvath said about 40 percent of the building would reopen in fall 2015 for use as a short-term exhibit space. Smithsonian officials said that the building had been architecturally stabilized, and minor refurbishments made to the bathrooms, HVAC system, and interior paint scheme. Horvath said the building would not completely reopen. He said that plans for a proposed National Museum of the American Latino remained in limbo, and that the Smithsonian had purposefully declined to include the Arts and Industries Building in its new
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J. Alden Weir


collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D. C.; Brigham Young University's Museum of Art, Provo, Utah; the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon; and the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut. Weir's farm and studio at Branchville are protected as the Weir Farm National Historic Site; the Weir family continues ownership of the Windham farm. His papers are in the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art.
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of the collection. The Lunder Conservation Center is "the first art conservation facility to allow the public permanent behind-the-scenes views of the preservation work of museums". The Luce Foundation Center, which opened in July 2000, is the first visible art storage and study center in Washington, D.C. and the fourth center to bear the Luce Family name. It has 20,400 square feet on the third and fourth floors of American Art Museum. It presents more than 3,300 objects in 64 secure glass cases, which quadruples the
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June Schwarcz


a Living Treasure of California in 1985, Schwarcz also received the James Renwick Alliance Masters of the Medium Award (2009). Since the late 1950s her work has appeared in numerous exhibitions and has been the subject of solo shows at the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Folk Art (1998), the Mingel International Museum in San Diego (2009–10), and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum Her work is in the permanent collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the
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Smithsonian American Art Museum


such as hygrothermographs, to maintain optimal temperature and humidity to preserve works of art. Staff from both the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery work in the Lunder Center. The museum has put on hundreds of exhibitions since its founding. Many exhibitions are groundbreaking and promote new scholarship within the field of American art. What follows is a brief list of selected, and more recent, examples: The museum has maintained a traveling exhibition program since 1951. During the 2000s renovation, a "series of exhibitions of more
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Claggett Wilson


to the Smithsonian American Art Museum by Alice H. Rossin. Wilson was a portraitist, muralist, and designer–decorator, as well as a costume and set designer. New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum own a number of Wilson’s paintings. Patrons of the arts such as Solomon R. Guggenheim, Adolph Lewisohn, Edgar Rossin, James Cox Brady, and Rodney Sharp adorned their walls with his canvases and murals. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne engaged Wilson in 1935 to
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Ruth Cole Kainen


Ruth Cole Kainen (February 19, 1922 – September 13, 2009) was a major art collector and benefactor (with her husband, the artist Jacob Kainen [1909–2001]). The Kainens collected paintings, drawings, engravings and prints, dating from the 15th century to modern times. While the National Gallery of Art was the major recipient of their generosity, they also donated many works to the Phillips Collection, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Museum of Women in the Arts,
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Elizabeth Broun


served as acting director. In 1983, Broun moved to Washington, D.C. and became Chief Curator and Assistant Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery. Five years later, she became the first female director of that museum and has served in the role ever since, making her one of the longest standing directors at the Smithsonian Institution. Broun has overseen many significant projects during her time as director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. These include a $250 million renovation of the museum's main building from 2000
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Gertrude Goodrich


cafeteria of the United States Department of Health and Human Services building in Washington, D.C.; titled "Scenes of American Life (Beach)" and painted in dry pigment in beeswax emulsion on shaped canvas between 1941 and 1947, it is now in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, alongside a number of related works. The museum also houses a study for the Buchanan post office mural. The Archives of American Art conducted an oral interview with Goordich in 2008. Some sources give a death date of 1980. Goodrich
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National Mall


museums and other features (including opening year): Not marked on the above image: With the exception of the National Gallery of Art, all of the museums on the National Mall proper are part of the Smithsonian Institution. The Smithsonian Gardens maintains a number of gardens near its museums. These gardens include: The broader area of the National Mall includes numerous other landmarks and features. Features east of the National Mall proper include: Features west of the National Mall proper include: The planting of American elm trees on the National
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Edith T. Martin


Edith T. Martin is an American artist and museum professional. She was born in Caroline County, Virginia. She moved to Washington D.C. where she earned a degree in Fine Arts from American University and also attended Georgetown University. She worked as an artist and museum technician at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery. Martin was active in the arts community in Washington D.C. and advocated for exhibitions of the work of African American women artists in particular. She was affiliated with the D.C. Art Association, the Smithsonian Institution Women's Council
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National Gallery of Art


was to be effectively self-governing, not controlled by the Smithsonian, but took the old name "National Gallery of Art" while the Smithsonian's gallery would be renamed the "National Collection of Fine Arts" (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum). Designed by architect John Russell Pope, the new structure was completed and accepted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on behalf of the American people on March 17, 1941. Neither Mellon nor Pope lived to see the museum completed; both died in late August 1937, only
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Martha Ann Honeywell


On many occasions, Honeywell appeared in the company of another, similar disabled artist, Sally Rogers. A paper cutout by Honeywell featuring the Lord's Prayer, dating to around 1830, is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. An undated silhouette of a lady is owned by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum owns another cutout with the Lord's Prayer as well as a broadside advertising her work. Two of her silhouettes are owned by Historic Deerfield. A silhouette of E. Tupper
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Smithsonian American Art Museum


building originally housed the collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. In addition to displaying a large collection of American contemporary craft, several hundred paintings from the museum’s permanent collection — hung salon style: one-atop-another and side-by-side — are featured in special installations in the Grand Salon. Part of the Smithsonian Institution, the museum has a broad variety of American art, with more than 7,000 artists represented, that covers all regions and art movements found in the United States. SAAM contains the world
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Beautiful Darling


an official selection of over thirty international film festivals, including the Sydney Film Festival, the Vienna International Film Festival, the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, and the Seattle International Film Festival. It was also given special screenings at the Hirshhorn Museum at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Distributed by Corinth Films, "Beautiful Darling" opened at
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Candler School of Theology


School of Theology holds an extensive collection of the work of Los Angeles artist John August Swanson. Noted for his finely detailed, brilliantly colored paintings and original prints, Swanson has works displayed in some of the world's most prestigious venues, including three museums of the Smithsonian Institution: The National Museum of American History, The Smithsonian American Art Museum and The National Air and Space Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, London's Tate Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum, the Vatican Museums’ Collection of Modern Religious Art, and
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Ann Fienup-Riordan


opened in 1996 in Toksook Bay and at the Yupiit Piciryarait Museum in Bethel, and then moved to the Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage. It also traveled to the University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, and Alaska State Museum, Juneau, the National Museum of the American Indian, New York, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., and ending at the Seattle (Wash.) Art Museum in 1998. "Yuungnaqpiallerput (The Way We Genuinely Live): Masterworks of Yupik Science and Survival
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Fired On


Fired On is a 1907 oil painting by Frederic Remington. It measures and has been held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum since 1910. Sometimes described as a nocturne, it depicts a group of men on horseback lit by the moon in the murky pre-dawn. An unseen adversary has fired upon the man on a white horse. The painting was bought by William T. Evans in November 1909, and he donated it to the Smithsonian Gallery of Art, now the Smithsonian American Art Museum. It was the first painting by
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Greg Mort


Greg Mort (born March 22, 1952) is an American artist and amateur astronomer whose paintings have been the subject of numerous exhibitions. His portraits, still lifes, and landscape paintings are represented in public collections including the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Vatican Observatory, Brandywine River Museum, Farnsworth Art Museum, and the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD, which was gifted the David H. Hickman Collection of 38 Mort paintings. Private collections in which his work is
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John August Swanson


Samaritan" (2002), and "Washing of the Feet" have proven popular among collectors of religious artwork around the world. Swanson's work is represented in the permanent collections of many museums, including three museums of the Smithsonian Institution: The National Museum of American History, The Smithsonian American Art Museum and The National Air and Space Museum. He is also included in the print collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Harvard University's Fogg Museum, the Tate Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the
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List of Smithsonian museums


the Smithsonian has expanded to twenty separate museums with roughly 137 million objects in their collections, including works of art, natural specimens, and cultural artifacts. The Smithsonian museums are visited by over 25 million people every year. 11 of the 20 Smithsonian Institution museums and galleries are at the National Mall in Washington D.C., the open-area national park in Washington, D.C. running between the Lincoln Memorial and the United States Capitol, with the Washington Monument providing a division slightly west of the center. Six other Smithsonian museums including the
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Ian Hornak


to continue through 2016. Hornak's artwork was the subject of a solo exhibition, on display during the 2013 Presidential Inauguration at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in the Eccles Building in Washington D.C. under the sponsorship of the Ben Bernanke Administration. Hornak's personal papers and effects entered into the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art in 2007. His artwork is owned by the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American Art; the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History
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Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science


The Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science was a Smithsonian Institution Affiliate and American Alliance of Museums accredited museum located in downtown Fresno, California, in the San Joaquin Valley. The Museum was established in 1984 and was one of the largest museums between San Francisco and Los Angeles. "The Met" was housed in the historic 1922 Fresno Bee Building. In August 2005, the museum began an extensive interior renovation; the first of its kind since the Museum's opening. The museum reopened on November 13, 2008 and closed
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Museum of Arts and Sciences (Daytona Beach)


Museums and is an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution. Programs are sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts and the County of Volusia. In 1977, art historian Gary Russell Libby was hired as the Executive Director of the Museum of Arts and Sciences which became accredited by the American Alliance of Museums and a Smithsonian Affiliate under Libby's leadership. The Museum grew from one location of 7,000 sq. ft. to 120,000
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Chinatowns in the United States


It is known for its annual Chinese New Year festival and parade and the Friendship Arch, a Chinese gate built over H Street at 7th Street. Other nearby prominent landmarks include the Verizon Center, a sports and entertainment arena, and the Old Patent Office Building, which houses two of the Smithsonian museums (the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum). The neighborhood is served by the Gallery Place-Chinatown station of the Washington Metro. The official historical and present Chinatown of Honolulu, on North Hotel Street and
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Smithsonian Affiliations


and scientific specimens loaned by the Smithsonian Institution to Smithsonian Affiliate organizations. The National Museum of American History loaned the Pioneer (locomotive), a Civil War-era locomotive, to the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland for the exhibit "The War Came by Train". Thomas Moran's painting "The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone", in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, was loaned to the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming. The massive painting was on view from June 1, 2009
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William T. Wiley


of Arts, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the New Britain Museum of American Art (New Britain, Connecticut), the Nelson-Atkins Museum (Kansas City, Missouri), the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, D.C.), the Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, Netherlands) the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Wiley was the recipient of
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Rosina Cox Boardman


the Smithsonian Institution. Boardman died in Huntington, New York. Two works by Boardman, including a self-portrait, are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and others are in the Worcester Art Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. A portrait of her by her teacher Alice Beckington is owned by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which also owns portraits of her by Lydia Longacre and Mabel Rose Welch. It also owns a single work by Boardman herself, "The
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Lorenzo Scott


the South". "Lorenzo Scott". p. 178-182. Schiffer Publishing Ltd. Atglen, PA. Patterson, Tom. 2001. "Contemporary Folk Art – Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum". Watson-Guptill Publications, New York. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Lorenzo Scott: "Baptism of Jesus", p. 86-87. Rosenak, Chuck and Jan Rosenak. 1996. "Contemporary American Folk Art – A Collector's Guide." Lorenzo Scott. p. 168-169 (also see the
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List of works by William Merritt Chase


, Southampton: Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh: Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art New Jersey: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: National Gallery of Art: The Phillips Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown: Art Institute of Chicago: Terra Museum of American Art: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago:
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Roger Shimomura


his retirement from teaching in 2004, he has continued painting, speaking, and exhibiting. His works are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, D.C.), the Denver Art Museum, the Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, CA), the Seattle Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the New York Public Library, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Asian American
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Robert McCormick Adams Jr.


ancient and evolving cultures and to serve as the Smithsonian's headquarters for Latin American scholarship, exhibitions, and programs. Adams formed the Smithsonian Cultural Education Committee to promote diversity across all aspects of Smithsonian operations. He also encouraged digitization projects, such as the National Air and Space Museum's videodisc technology for storage and retrieval of documents, photos, and other information. The "culture wars" arrived at the Smithsonian in 1991, with criticisms of The West as America, an exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In 1994
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Katherine Schmidt


Gallery. Schmidt's work has been widely collected American museums, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Newark Museum (Newark, N.J.), Santa Barbara Museum (Santa Barbara, Cal.), Sata Roby Foundation Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, D.C.), University of Arizona, Weatherspoon Art Museum (University of North Carolina at Greensboro), and Whitney Museum of American Art. Unless otherwise indicated, these museums are in New York. During
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Hoefler & Co.


Smithsonian Institution and the Victoria & Albert Museum, and it has been recognized by the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the National Design Awards. The Gotham typeface became famous during 2008, when it was chosen for the identity of Barack Obama during his campaign for the presidency. H&Co typefaces associated with cultural institutions include Knockout (for The Public Theatre), Ideal Sans (The Art Institute of Chicago), Verlag (The Guggenheim Museum) and Whitney (The Whitney Museum). H&Co's Ringside typeface is the official typeface of
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Wendy Red Star


included in the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, the George Gustav Heye Center, Saint Louis Art Museum, Hood Museum, Crocker Museum of Art, Portland Art Museum, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, C.N. Gorman Museum, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Triton Museum of Art, Autry Museum of the American West, Philbrook Museum of Art, and The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia. Red
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Washington, D.C.


the National Mall near the Capitol and features works of American and European art. The gallery and its collections are owned by the U.S. government but are not a part of the Smithsonian Institution. The National Building Museum, which occupies the former Pension Building near Judiciary Square, was chartered by Congress and hosts exhibits on architecture, urban planning, and design. There are many private art museums in the District of Columbia, which house major collections and exhibits open to the public such as the National Museum of Women in the Arts and
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Henry Darger


Modern Art and the American Folk Art Museum in New York, , the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Collection de l'art brut, the Walker Art Center, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, High Museum of Art, and the Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art in Villeneuve d'Ascq, and the Museum of Old and New Art, in Tasmania; Australia. Darger's art
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William Glackens


of American Art 1943: "The Eight": Brooklyn Museum of Art 1992: "Painters of a New Century: The Eight and American Art": The Brooklyn Museum 1995: "Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York": National Museum of American Art 2000: "City Life Around the Eight": Metropolitan Museum of Art 2002: "Scenes of American Life: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum": Dayton Art Institute 2007: "Life's Pleasures: The Ashcan Artists' Brush with
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum


Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is a design museum located in the Upper East Side's Museum Mile in Manhattan, New York City. It is one of nineteen museums that fall under the wing of the Smithsonian Institution and is one of three Smithsonian facilities located in New York City, the other two being the George Gustav Heye Center in Bowling Green and the Archives of American Art New York Research Center in the Flatiron District. It is the only museum in the United States devoted to historical and contemporary design. Its collections and
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William Johnson (artist)


, Mary Beattie Brady, and others arranged with the court to have Johnson's belongings delivered to the Harmon Foundation with unconditional rights over all works. The foundation would use the works to advance interracial understanding and support African American achievements in the fine arts. On April 19, 1967, the Harmon Foundation gave more than 1,000 paintings, watercolors, and prints by Johnson to the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In 1991, the Smithsonian American Art Museum organized and circulated a major exhibition of his artwork, "Homecoming: The Art and
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Sikhs: Legacy of the Punjab


Sikhs: Legacy of the Punjab was a temporary exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History that highlights the art, culture, and history of the Sikh people. It was dedicated and opened to the public on July 24, 2004 and is a part of the broader Smithsonian Sikh Heritage Project which was launched in 2000. It then traveled to venues in California and Texas. The exhibition contains over 100 items from Sikh history and culture, including some artifacts that date back to the 18th century, many of which
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Steven Montgomery


exhibitions in Korea and Taiwan (2003, 2004). He is the first ceramic sculptor to receive a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2012) and is currently working as an artist in residence at the National Air And Space Museum in Washington, D.C. His work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and numerous other public and private collections throughout the United States and abroad.
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First Lady of the United States


of the most popular attractions at the Smithsonian Institution. The original exhibition opened in 1914 and was one of the first at the Smithsonian to prominently feature women. Originally focused largely on fashion, the exhibition now delves deeper into the contributions of first ladies to the presidency and American society. In 2008, "First Ladies at the Smithsonian" opened at the National Museum of American History as part of its reopening year celebration. That exhibition served as a bridge to the museum's expanded exhibition on first ladies' history that opened on
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Beth Lipman


Pittsburgh, PA. Lipman's work is represented in a number of museum collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (WI); the Corning Museum of Glass (NY); the Museum of Art and Design (NY); the Museum of American Glass (NJ); the Norton Museum of Art (FL); the Detroit Institute of Arts; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (MO); the Hunter Museum of Art (TN)
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George Gustav Heye Center


The George Gustav Heye Center is a branch of the National Museum of the American Indian in Manhattan, New York City. The museum is part of the Smithsonian Institution. The Center features contemporary and historical exhibits of art and artifacts by and about Native Americans. The center is named for George Gustav Heye, who began collecting Native American artifacts in 1903. He founded and endowed the Museum of the American Indian in 1916, and it opened in 1922, in a building at 155th Street and Broadway, part of the Audubon Terrace
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The Art of Video Games


The Art of Video Games was an exhibition by the Smithsonian American Art Museum which was on display from March 16, 2012 through September 30, 2012. The exhibition was designed to highlight the evolution of art within the video game medium over its forty-year history. Following its time at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the exhibition toured to 10 additional venues in the United States. Chris Melissinos, founder of Past Pixels and collector of video games and gaming systems, was the curator of the exhibition. "The Art of
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Independence Avenue (Washington, D.C.)


the U.S. Department of Agriculture's headquarters (the Jamie L. Whitten Federal Building), the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (both art museums belonging to the Smithsonian Institution), the Smithsonian Institution Building, the National Museum of African Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Air and Space Museum, the National Museum of the American Indian, and the United States Botanic Garden. On the south side of the street (west to east) are the Department of Agriculture's South Building, the
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I. Rice Pereira


the Brooklyn Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.), The Phillips Collection (Washington D.C.), the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the University of Iowa Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, Maryland), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City), the Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, Massachusetts), the Museum of Modern Art (New York City), the Dallas Museum of Art (
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Alfred Henry Maurer


works are included in the collections of the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; the Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington,
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National Museum of African American History and Culture


to appoint African-American staff to high-ranking positions within the museum. The Smithsonian formed a 22-member advisory board, chaired by Mary Schmidt Campbell, in May 1990. The creation of the advisory board was an important step for the Smithsonian. There were many on the Smithsonian's Board of Regents who believed that "African-American culture and history" was indefinable and that not enough artifacts and art of national significance could be found to build a museum. On May 6, 1991, after a year of study,
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Smithsonian Affiliations


The Historic Arkansas Museum borrowed over 40 artifacts from the National Museum of the American Indian for the exhibit "We Walk in Two Worlds: The Caddo, Osage and Quapaw in Arkansas". The Smithsonian American Art Museum loaned three José Campeche paintings to the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Senator John Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has on loan from the National Museum of American History a Bantam Jeep and a piece of the original Star Spangled Banner Flag. Yokohama prints from the Freer
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National Museum of African American History and Culture


). In January 2016, the Smithsonian set an opening day of September 24, 2016, for the museum's opening. President Barack Obama would dedicate the museum, which would be followed by a week of special events. The museum would open for extended hours during that week to accommodate crowds and visitors. NMAAHC officials said that construction scaffolding around the exterior of the building should come down in April 2016, at which time some of the more dust-and-humidity resistant artifacts and displays could be installed. Installation of
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Donald Farnsworth


NY; The Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL; The National Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the American Craft Museum. His collaborative artwork with Era Hamaji Farnsworth is included in collections in Australia, Japan, Belgium, Madrid, and London; their collaborative tapestry "Dharmakaya
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Ellen Carey


's sixty one-person exhibitions have been presented at museums, such as the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, International Center of Photography (ICP) and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, alternative spaces such as Hallwalls and Real Art Ways, and many commercial galleries. Her work is in numerous museum collections, including those of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Centre Pompidou, and Smithsonian American Art Museum. In 2019, she was named one of the Royal
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