Results for "Art, African"
- Blog Post
Happy Anniversary, National Museum of African American History and Culture!
- Date: September 28, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A year ago on September 24, 2016, the Smithsonian gained a new museum — the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Since then, 2.5 million people have visited the museum. In honor of their historic opening, we look back at photographer Michael Barnes' favorite images from the year.[view:sia_slideshow==77271]Related ResourcesHistory of the National Museum of
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National Museum of African American History and Culture Created | Smithsonian Institution Archives
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American Negro Artists (National Gallery of Art, 1929-1930)
- Date: August 25, 2016
- Description: On May 16, 1929, an exhibition of American Negro Artists opened on the ground floor of the Smithsonian’s US National Museum building. The exhibition featured fifty-one works by twenty-seven black sculptors and painters who won a juried competition sponsored by the Harmon Foundation.1Though the work selected remained distant from the most radical new work being created by
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96-1007
- SI History Chronology
Groundbreaking for the National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Date: February 22, 2012
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96-1009
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78-1634-11
- Collection
Loan and Exhibition Files, 1964-1995
- Date: 1964 1964-1995
- Creator: National Museum of African Art (U.S.) Office of Registration
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2002-32281
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2002-32289
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96-1008
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2003-19558