Results for "Art, Abstract"
Link Love: 11/11/2016
- Date: November 11, 2016
- Creator: Hillary Brady
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
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Labor of Love: Art in Hard Times
- Date: September 4, 2009
- Description: [caption id="attachment_2167" align="aligncenter" width="185" caption="Biddle at work on Society Freed through Justice in the Justice Department Building, Washington, D.C. Photographer unknown. Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection, 1935-1942. Archives of American Art."][/caption] This Monday, as we observe Labor Day in the midst of a serious economic
Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr., and Joseph Hirshhorn
- Date: June 17, 2014
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: A new documentary on the artist Robert De Niro, Sr. and De Niro's connection with art collector Joseph H. Hirshhorn.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Susan Franz Lake
- Date: July 14, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
Uta C. Merzbach: Smithsonian's First Curator of Mathematical Instruments
- Date: March 22, 2018
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Uta C. Merzbach was the Smithsonian's first curator of mathematical instruments. She brought her field to life with unique presentations of mathematical concepts and computer history.
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See Here: 4/23/2012
- Date: April 23, 2012
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: See Here: a weekly photo feature showcasing images from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
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Snapshots at the Shore
- Date: July 7, 2009
- Description: To celebrate the season, we have a series of posts looking at images of summer in the Smithsonian photo archives and collections. To start things off, Mary Savig, Archives Specialist at the Archives of American Art, describes how artists recharged in the summer months. Like eager vacationers everywhere, artists have long escaped to the beach on hot summer days. The shore
The Artist, The Collector, and Quality Correspondence in midst of the Digital Era
- Date: August 19, 2014
- Description: Archived correspondence between Joseph Hirshhorn and modern artists Willem de Kooning, Alexander Calder, and Marc Chagall bring light to the means in which we communicate artist to collector relationships in the digital era.
World Watercolor Month at the Smithsonian
- Date: July 22, 2021
- Creator: Tatiana Swann
- Description: We’re taking a look at the various watercolors the Smithsonian Institution has collected both past and present, highlighting the diversity in artists, technique, unique painting effect, and versatility to create anything from insects to cityscapes.
Link Love: 8/14/2020
- Date: August 14, 2020
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
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New Field Book Sets on the Smithsonian Flickr Commons
- Date: August 24, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Seeing another world, this one behind the Iron Curtain…
- Date: May 26, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="293" caption="Completed SA-2 missile site showing characteristic Star of David pattern, National Security Archive, The George Washington University"][/caption] Strangely beautiful surveillance photographs shot from an American U-2 spy plane triggered a terrifying nuclear standoff, The Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. In a new click!