WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum is organizing a major exhibition that examines how America’s artists represented the impact of the Civil War and its aftermath. Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, Frederic Church and Sanford Gifford…
Smithsonian American Art Museum Organizing 2012 Exhibition "The Civil War and American Art"
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum is organizing a major exhibition that examines how America’s artists represented the impact of the Civil War and its aftermath. Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, Frederic Church and Sanford Gifford
Kristina Wilson is Awarded the 23nd Annual Eldredge Prize for Her Book "The Modern Eye"
WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum has awarded the 2011 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art to Kristina Wilson for her book The Modern Eye: Stieglitz, MoMA and the Art of Exhibition, 1925-1934 (Yal…
Smithsonian American Art Museum Meets the Challenge for New Curator of Craft Position at its Renwick Gallery
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum has met the challenge posed by Lloyd Herman, the founding director of its Renwick Gallery, to create a $2 million endowment to support a new curator of craft position. Herman’s $800,000 challenge g…
New Exhibition About Artist George Ault Opens at the American Art Museum
WASHINGTON, DC.- “To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America” is on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., from March 11 through Sept. 5. Alexander Nemerov, the Vincent Scully Professor of the History of Art at Y…
New Exhibition About 1940s America and Artist George Ault Opens at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
WASHINGTON, DC.- “To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America” is on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., from March 11 through Sept. 5. Alexander Nemerov, the Vincent Scully Professor of the History of Art at Y…
Pierre Huyghe is the 2010 Winner of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Contemporary Artist Award
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum announced that Pierre Huyghe is the 2010 winner of the museum’s contemporary artist award. Huyghe was selected by an independent panel of jurors for his “pioneering vision and tireless ambi…
Pierre Huyghe is the 2010 Winner of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Contemporary Artist Award
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum announced that Pierre Huyghe is the 2010 winner of the museum’s contemporary artist award. Huyghe was selected by an independent panel of jurors for his “pioneering vision and tireless ambi…
New Installation of Recent Media Art Acquisitions Opens at the American Art Museum
WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum has opened a new gallery dedicated to examining the history and the latest developments in the art of the moving image. “Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image” opened t…
New Installation of Recent Media Art Acquisitions Opens at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum has opened a new gallery dedicated to examining the history and the latest developments in the art of the moving image. “Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image” opened t…