Stories for November 2008

Good Enough to Eat: Thanksgiving Menu by George Burr

November 25, 2008

Thanksgiving Menu by George Elbert Burr George Elbert Burr worked as an illustrator for several magazines including Harper's, Cosmopolitan, and something called Frank Leslie's Weekly Newspaper. (Winslow Homer illustrated for the paper as well; three examples of his work for...

Manhattan in Black and White and Color

November 24, 2008

Georgia O'Keeffe's Manhattan In a recent post I took a look at Arnold Ronnebeck's etching of Wall Street, made in 1925 when the native German artist was fairly new to Manhattan. He became a part of the circle of artists...

SAAM Celebrates FotoWeek DC

November 19, 2008

Fotoweek DC, a week-long celebration of photography here in the nation’s capital, is being celebrated at The American Art Museum with a series of nightly contemporary photo landscape projections on the walls of our Kogod Courtyard. The projected exhibition features...

In This Case: Quilts? Quilts!

November 17, 2008

Quilts on Display at Luce It's part of my job at the Luce Center for American Art's information desk to explain the concept of the Center to visitors. But I can tell how eager they are to begin exploring when,...

Ghosts of a Chance: The End (for now)!

November 13, 2008

Georgina Bath is the Interpretive Programs Manager for the Luce Foundation Center for American Art, SAAM's visible storage facility. Searching for final clues in front of Georgia Stele by Jesús Moroles In September, SAAM launched an Alternate Reality Game (ARG)...

Site Update

November 13, 2008

We have just updated and relaunched our main Smithsonian American Art Museum Web site. And we are in the process of updating links to that site from Eye Level. This may take a few days so you may be temporarily...

Renwick 101: A Brief History of the First Art Museum in D.C.

November 6, 2008

Stereograph of the Renwick Gallery, date unknown The grand Renwick Gallery, which is part of SAAM, was built in the mid nineteenth century to house the art collection of Washington banker and philanthropist William Wilson Corcoran. From the beginning the...