Art + Artists - Smithsonian American Art Museum
SAAM’s collection includes many remarkable artworks that reflect the profound and longstanding contributions of Asian American and Asian diasporic artists in the United States.
Edward B. Webster | Smithsonian American Art Museum
African American artist Edward Webster grew up in Florence, South Carolina, where he was childhood friends with the painter William H. Johnson. In 1917 he moved to New York City, where he remained …
Points of Reference: Atlas, Webster - Smithsonian American Art Museum
Alphonse Mattia, Points of Reference: Atlas, Webster & Roget, 1995, painted Baltic birch plywood and various hardwoods with glass and gold leaf, part A (case with tilted mirror): 72 x 19 x 13 1 ⁄ 2 in. (182. …
Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is home to one of the largest and most inclusive collections of American art in the world.
The Nativity - Smithsonian American Art Museum
The painting's composition mimics that of a stage performance: the artist left a space between Joseph and the Magi for the viewer to participate in the scene; our view of the stable's interior and the goings …
Sarah Goodridge - Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Charles W. Hawthorne | Smithsonian American Art Museum
Portrait and genre painter who studied with George de Forest Brush at the Art Students League and William Merrit Chase at Shinnecock, Long Island. He was also founder and dynamic director of the …
19th Century | Smithsonian American Art Museum
In the decades before World War I—a period dubbed the “Gilded Age” by author Mark Twain—artists such as Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, and Abbott Thayer captured …
Collection Highlights | Smithsonian American Art Museum
The works highlighted here represent the many remarkable artworks in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection.
Daniel Webster - Smithsonian American Art Museum
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