Results for "Smithsonian American Art Museum. Ask Joan of Art"
Joan Mondale Plays Drums at Museum of African Art
- Date: 1978 February 7, 1978
- Creator: Hofmeister, Richard K
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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 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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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.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Sylvia H. Williams
- Date: October 18, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: African art scholar Sylvia H. Williams, directed the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, 1983-1996, and was one of the few women, and the only African American woman, serving at the time as director of a major American museum. #Groundbreaker
Harriet Lane Johnston: First Lady of the National Collection of Fine Arts
- Date: August 8, 2019
- Description: Learn about Harriet Lane Johnston: First Lady, globetrotter, and founding donor of the Smithsonian American Art Museum!
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Merry A. Foresta
- Date: June 16, 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.
Link Love: 6/15/2018
- Date: June 15, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: As the Lichtenstein Foundation closes, half a million documents are coming to the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art! [via NY Times]Bitcoin is entering the art market. [via Mutual Art]Hyperspectral scanning reveals Picasso's process during his "blue period." [via The Star]What could possibly connect Abraham Lincoln to vampires? The Smithsonian's National Museum of American
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SIA Acc. 08-143, Smithsonian American Art Museum Research and Scholars Center, Departmental Records, FY 1989-FY 2001
- Date: 1989 1989-2001 FY 1989-FY 2001
- Creator: Smithsonian American Art Museum. Research and Scholars Center
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Jacquelyn Days Serwer
- Date: November 15, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Chief curator, Dr. Jacquelyn Days Serwer, Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), assembled the museum's art collection documenting 200 years of black visual expression. #Groundbreaker
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SIA Acc. 13-238, Smithsonian American Art Museum Curatorial Office, Exhibition Records, 1989-2011
- Date: 1989 1989-2011
- Creator: Smithsonian American Art Museum. Curatorial Office
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Mary E. Massey
- Date: March 10, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: From 1967 to 1991, Mary E. Massey broke barriers for women at the Smithsonian by demonstrating her skills in spaces typically reserved only for men. Though Massey arrived at the Smithsonian as an elevator operator, by her retirement, she was the building manager for the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. In a column reserved for the Smithsonian
