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Picture This: Fliptastic
August 5, 2009
Visitors to American Art use our Flip Mino video camera to create their own tours of the museum. Have you ever dreamed of being a star? If so, you are in luck. Right now in the Luce Foundation Center you...
Picture This: Taking Down a House of Cards
July 31, 2009
De-installing Chance City by Jean Shin Jean Shin’s exhibition Common Threads just closed at American Art. Once a show is over, American Art’s Registrar’s Office is tasked with de-installing it. If the work is from our permanent collection, each piece...
Picture This: Out of This Case
July 9, 2009
Dave DeAnna and Matt Bacon from our Registrar's Office removed two artworks from the contemporary craft section in the Luce Foundation Center for American Art last week. These works (Alhambra Vase and Zanfirico Apple) will be going out on loan....
Portraits of Women Artists
June 16, 2009
Women Artist Portraits, part of American Art's Juley Collection on Flickr Commons To celebrate Women’s History Month, a selection of women artist portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, part of the photograph archives at the American Art...
Picture This: A Young Person's Point of View
June 8, 2009
Our Teacher Programs Coordinator, Suzannah Niepold, describes one of our Education Department's local outreach activities. Eighth-grader Eli Ferster reading his composition about Thomas Le Clear's painting Interior with Portraits. Photo by Sally Otis. Three hundred and fifty D.C. eighth graders...
Picture This: Morans on the Move
May 8, 2009
Moving the Morans: a monumental task. Photo by Gene Young. Staff at the museum have been working all week to carefully orchestrate moving a suite of monumental landscape paintings by Thomas Moran out of the Grand Salon at the museum's...
Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2008
John Whetten Ehninger's October When I came home from work last night there were piles of leaves all over the front lawn and two humongous carved pumpkins on our front porch. I'd like to think my family dressed up just...
Picture This: Bottle Caps at SAAM
December 26, 2007
A collection of post-holiday bottle caps? Not on your life! From our Flickr photo pool comes this photograph by Justin Hoffmann: a closeup of Bottlecap Giraffe, part of SAAM's folk art collection. The piece can be found "in captivity" in...
Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2007
John Quidor, The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane, 1858, oil, 26 7/8 x 33 7/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible in part by the Catherine Walden Myer Endowment, the Julia D. Strong Endowment, and the Director's...
Picture This: Trees!!
September 20, 2007
Black Olive Tree Being Lowered Into the Courtyard (View larger image) Timing is everything. On my way to photograph the installation of Andrea Zittel's work for our upcoming exhibition Celebrating the Lucelia Artist Award, 2001—2006, I stopped off to see...
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