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New: Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke
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November 27, 2008 - March 3, 2009
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This retrospective features more than 80 photographs -- both black-and-white and color -- by landscape photographer Frank Gohlke (b. 1942), taken from the early 1970s through 2004. Fascinated with nature's proclivities for growth, destruction, and unexpected change, Golke captures the tension between humanity and nature and explores how Americans build their lives in a natural world that rarely fits within a traditional pastoral ideal. His images depict his hometown of Wichita Falls, Texas; the grain elevators that punctuate the vast spaces of the Midwest; the effect of the 1980 volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington State; and the neighborhoods of Queens, New York, and reveal how people adapt to the forces of nature great and small, even within the confines of their own back yards. Catalogue : $35
See related programs in Chron. section of Calendar Organized by the Amon Carter Museum of Fort Worth, Texas.
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New: Graphic Masters I: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
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November 27, 2008 - May 25, 2009
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On view are watercolors, pastels, and drawings from the early 19th century through the 1930s to celebrate the extraordinary variety and accomplishment of American artists' works on paper. The works on view reveal the central importance of works on paper for American artists, both as studies for creations in other media and as finished works of art. Artists represented include such masters as John James Audubon, Romaine Brooks, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, John La Farge, Man Ray, John Marin, and Georgia O'Keeffe. Catalogue: $19.95
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New: The Honor of Your Company Is Requested: President Lincoln's Inaugural Ball
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March 8, 2008 - January 18, 2010
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On view in this small exhibition to celebrate Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural ball is ephemera from the ball, including the invitation and menu, as well as engravings illustrating the night's events and other artifacts. The ball took place in the building on March 6, 1865, during the final stages of the Civil War and only six weeks before Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre.
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American Art through 1940
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This exhibition links artworks to major moments in America's past in nine thematic sections in 31 galleries. The introductory area features Frederic Auguste Bartholdi's model for the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of America as a place welcoming to all immigrants whose ingenuity and creativity plays a key role throughout America's art.
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These introductory galleries feature paintings by Edward Hopper, 19th- and 20th-century landscapes from across the United States that convey a sense of place and the defining role of land in the American imagination, and 56 photographs from Lee Friedlander's series "The American Monument" (1963-2001) -- a new acquisition -- offer his sometimes ironic, sometimes elegiac record of outdoor sculptures across the country.
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Commissioned by the museum, David Beck created MVSEVM, an exquisitely crafted world in miniature; the work reflects the neoclassical architecture of the building, from the 1840s when it was the U.S. Patent Office to the present day.
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Luce Foundation Center for American Art
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The Luce Foundation Center for American Art is the first visible art storage and study center in Washington that showcases some 3,300 artworks from the museum's permanent collection: paintings densely hung on screens; sculptures, contemporary crafts, and art objects arranged on shelves; and portrait miniatures, bronze medals, and contemporary jewelry in drawers that slide open with the touch of a button. The space allows the museum to display five times the number of works on public view.
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Lunder Conservation Center
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The Lunder Conservation Center -- shared with the National Portrait Gallery -- is the first facility that provides a unique opportunity for the public to view through glass walls conservators at work in several labs examining, treating, and preserving art.
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Modern and Contemporary Art
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Located in the Lincoln Gallery with soaring arches, this exhibition features modern and contemporary art.
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Last update: January 13, 2009, 19:24
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