Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
WEBThe Archives of American Art is the world’s preeminent and most widely used research center dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to primary sources that document the history of the visual arts in America. Our resources serve as reference for dissertations, exhibitions, catalogs, articles, and books.
Exhibitions | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
WEBMay 31, 2024 · This digital project is organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum with the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art as a companion to the exhibition Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women. Support for this digital project has been provided by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative.
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WEBMay 31, 2024 · Washington D.C. Headquarters and Research Center. 750 9th Street, NW Victor Building Suite 2200 Washington, DC 20001. New York Office. 300 Park Avenue South Suite 300
Emilio Sanchez's Photographic Sources - Archives of American Art
WEBAug 20, 2020 · Emilio Sanchez. Woman holding a dog and leaning out of a window in Puerto Rico., ca. 1950s to 1960s. Emilio Sanchez papers, 1922-2012. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Initially, Sanchez used photographs as a form of notetaking, comparable perhaps only to the words and phrases that began to populate his sketches after the 1960s.
On Alma Thomas’s Observations of Negro History Week
WEBFeb 20, 2013 · Alma Thomas, ca. 1958 / unidentified photographer. Alma Thomas papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.. Painter Alma Thomas is perhaps best known for her participation in the Washington Color School. Yet, for generations of African American families in Washington, D.C., she was better known as Miss Thomas, the art teacher at Shaw Junior High School where she taught between ...
Archives of American Art Presents What is Feminist Art?
WEB“Archives are a weapon against being removed from history.” -artist Joan Semmel (2015) The Archives of American Art is pleased to present What is Feminist Art? on view November 26, 2019, through November 2020.. Organized by Curator of Manuscripts Mary Savig, the exhibition revisits a 1977 exhibition at Los Angeles’ Woman’s Building, a feminist art school, gallery, and community space ...
Artists and Their Models - Archives of American Art
WEBMay 14, 2014 · Artists and Their Models. The model has long been essential to the work of the artist. They often serve as artists’ muses—mortals who can sometimes be almost otherworldly in their ability to inspire creativity—yet a talent for holding still is often more important than beauty. Models are too often given short shrift in art history, their ...
Elizabeth Catlett’s - Archives of American Art
WEBFeb 26, 2019 · Photograph of Elizabeth Catlett sculpture Students Aspire with description (detail), 1978 / unidentified photographer. Elizabeth Catlett papers, 1957-1980.Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
What is Feminist Art? - Archives of American Art
WEBNovember 26, 2019 - December 31, 2021. Feminist art resists easy definitions. In 1977, feminist activists Ruth Iskin, Lucy Lippard, and Arlene Raven organized an exhibition centered on the question, “What is Feminist Art?”. They invited artists to answer this question on a letter-sized piece of paper. Hundreds of artists responded in the ...
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WEBThe Archives of American Art is the world’s preeminent and most widely used research center dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to primary sources that document the history of the visual arts in America. Founded in Detroit in 1954 by Edgar P. Richardson, then Director of the Detroit Institute of Arts, and Lawrence A ...