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      Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery

      • Date: April 18, 2011
      • Description: The Smithsonian American Art Museum began as an art gallery in the Smithsonian Institution Building, the Castle. A National Gallery of Art was formally created in 1906 in the US National Museum. In 1968, the collection moved to the American Art and Portrait Galleries, and its Renwick Gallery opened in 1972. History of the Smithsonian American Art MuseumAdditional Historic

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      American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery

      • Date: September 5, 2013
      • Description: The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) are two different museums that had their origins in the Smithsonian’s National Gallery of Art. They have been housed in the old Patent Office Building since 1968. The American Art Museum was established in 1907 under the name “National Gallery of Art.” The National Portrait Gallery was

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      Smithsonian American Art Museum

      • Date: April 14, 2011
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      Art and Photography at the Smithsonian

      • Date: February 4, 2010
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="349" caption="Washington, D.C. 1975, from the series Archaeological Series, 6 Inch Contour Gauge, 1975, by Kenneth Josephson, Gelatin silver print on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1983.63.828."][/caption] In 1981, the Smithsonian American Art Museum (at the time it was named

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      National Museum of African Art

      • Date: April 18, 2011
      • Description: Established in 1964 by private collector Warren Robbins, the Museum of African Art in Washington, DC, was transferred to the Smithsonian in 1979. In 1981, the Museum was renamed the National Museum of African Art and in 1987, re-opened in a new building as part of the Smithsonian’s Quadrangle complex. History of the National Museum of African ArtAdditional Historic Images of

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      Breaking Ground and Blessing the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian

      • Date: September 21, 2021
      • Creator: Hannah Byrne
      • Description: On September 28, 1999, representatives of dozens of tribes from across the hemisphere gathered on the National Mall for the groundbreaking of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. On the overcast morning, several hundred people packed under three tents during a ceremony that featured blessings from the four cardinal directions. After the ceremony, some

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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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    15. Two sketches of uniforms for servers for a man and woman. Both are holding trays and wearing aprons.

      Get the Scoop on Smithsonian’s Ice Cream Parlor

      • Date: July 18, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: We all screamed for ice cream at the old-fashioned ice cream parlor at Smithsonian's National Museum of American History between 1981 and 2006.

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      National Museum of the American Indian

      • Date: September 18, 2013
      • Description: The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) was created on November 18, 1989, when President George H.W. Bush signed an act allowing the transfer of the Museum of the American Indian into the Smithsonian to create NMAI. As one of the Smithsonian’s newer museums, the images in this gallery show the evolution of postcard use at the Smithsonian. The NMAI postcards mainly

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    19. 120th Anniversary brochure for the National Collection of Fine Arts (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum), 1966.

      Design + Archives - National Collection of Fine Arts

      • Date: April 22, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: A look back at some exhibition brochures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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      The Anniversary of the National Museum of African Art: A Gift in August

      • Date: August 13, 2012
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: On August 13, 2012 the National Museum of African Art, founded by Warren M. Robbins, became a part of the Smithsonian Institution.

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      Archives of American Art

      • Date: March 9, 2011
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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