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New: Grand Salon Installation: Paintings from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
June 6, 2009 - New Permanent
On view are 70 paintings from the 1840s to the 1930s -- landscapes, portraits, and allegorical works -- by 51 American artists, including Edward Mitchell Bannister, Romaine Brooks, Elliott Daingerfield, Daniel Garber, William Morris Hunt, George Inness, Homer Dodge Martin, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Abbott Handerson Thayer, John Henry Twachtman, and Irving R. Wiles. The room is installed salon style, with paintings hung one-atop-another and side by side. Free Visitor Guide featuring short biographies of the artists
Permanent Collection
- Permanent
Features contemporary American crafts in glass, ceramics, metal, wood, and fiber. Highlights include:

Game Fish (1988) by Larry Fuente (b. 1947)
Bureau of Bureaucracy by Kim Schmahmann (a cabinet sculpture described by the artist as a "contemporary cabinet of curiosities")
Ghost Clock by Wendell Castle
Bancketje (Banquet) by Beth Lipman
The Renwick 30th Anniversary Plate by Irma Starr

Last update: June 30, 2009, 09:05

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