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General
Ask Joan of Art Ask Joan of Art
Art information specialists at the American Art Museum will answer your questions
Archives of American Art Archives of American Art
Maintains materials on the history of the visual arts in the United States
Explore the American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery Collections American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery Collections
The museum celebrates the extraordinary creativity of American artists, whose works are windows on the American experience
 
Explore the American Art Museum Collections
Explore the Hirshhorn Musem Collections
Online Exhibitions from the American Art Museum
African American Artists

African American Contemporary Art
African-American Contemporary Art at the Hirshhorn Museum

African American Figuration
African-American Figuration at the Hirshhorn Museum

African American Masters
Highlights from the American Art Museum

African American Women Artists
An annotated bibliography
Anacostia Community Museum
History and culture of African American communities
Cleopatra Lost and Found
The life and work of Edmonia Lewis, a nineteenth-century African American sculptor
A Journey through Art with William H. Johnson
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is home to the largest collection of works by William H. Johnson (1901–1970)
Transatlantic Dialogue: In and Out of Africa
Explores the varied ways that African and African American artists interpret their ideas and identities
The Papers of African American Artists
Included in the collections are the papers of more than fifty African American painters, sculptors, and printmakers
 
Asian Pacific American Artists
Resources on Asian Pacific American Artists at the Archives of American Art
Asian American artists have played an important role in the artistic legacy of art in America
U.S. Latino Artists
¡del Corazón! Latino Voices in American Art
Photographs, videos, and other resources to reveal the artists and their works
Papers of Latino and Latin American Artists
Archives of American Art
American Impresssionism
American Art Museum
Explore the collections including works by Childe Hassam and Mary Cassatt
Freer Gallery of Art
Specialized collection of American art
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Online Collections Search for American Impressionism
Portraiture
Portrait Gallery
The National Portrait Gallery tells the stories of America through the individuals who have shaped our nation, from pre-Colonial times to today, including poets and presidents, visionaries and villains, actors and activists
 
Museums
American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery
Permanent collection and exhibitions of American art and crafts
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Changing exhibitions of design, decorative arts, industrial design and architecture
Freer and Sackler Galleries
Asian and a specialized collection of American art
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Collects, promotes and displays modern and contemporary art
Portrait Gallery
Portraits of distinguished Americans
Research
American Art Museum and Portrait Gallery Library
Collection of resource materials covering American art, history, and biography
Archives of American Art
The largest collection of documents on the history of the visual arts in the United States
Related Links
American History Museum
Works of art fill its collections and testify to the vital place of art in everyday American life
Programs
Folklife Festival
Annual celebration of art, music, crafts, culture and lore

Art and Architecture
Classes, seminars and lectures sponsored by The Smithsonian Associates

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