When
Feb 1, 2009 (Sunday) to
Dec 31, 2009
(Thursday)
Where
Smithsonian American Art Museum (map)
Eighth and F Streets NW
Washington, DC 20560
Washington, DC 20560
38.897317
-77.023014
What
Traveling Exhibit Smithsonian American Art Museum
Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum features forty-th...
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Traveling Exhibit
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum features forty-three key paintings and sculptures by thirty-one of the most celebrated artists who came to maturity in the 1950s. Through three broadly-conceived themes that span two decades of creative genius -"Significant Gestures," "Optics and Order" and "New Images of Man"-Modern Masters examines the complex and heterogeneous nature of American abstract art in the mid-twentieth century. Featured artists include Jim Dine, David Driskell, Sam Francis, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, Hans Hofmann, Franz Kline, Louise Nevelson, Anne Truitt and Esteban Vicente.
Address : 8th & F Sts. NW
Phone : 202 633-8494
Url : AmericanArt.si.edu
Admission : Free
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum features forty-three key paintings and sculptures by thirty-one of the most celebrated artists who came to maturity in the 1950s. Through three broadly-conceived themes that span two decades of creative genius -"Significant Gestures," "Optics and Order" and "New Images of Man"-Modern Masters examines the complex and heterogeneous nature of American abstract art in the mid-twentieth century. Featured artists include Jim Dine, David Driskell, Sam Francis, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, Hans Hofmann, Franz Kline, Louise Nevelson, Anne Truitt and Esteban Vicente.
Address : 8th & F Sts. NW
Phone : 202 633-8494
Url : AmericanArt.si.edu
Admission : Free
More about Smithsonian American Art Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is dedicated to the art and artists of the United States. All regions, cultures, and traditions in this country are represented in the museum's collections, research resources, exhibitions, and public programs. Colonial portraiture, nineteenth-century landscape, American impressionism, twentieth-century realism and abstraction, New Deal projects, sculpture, photography, prints and drawings, contemporary crafts, African American art, Latino art, and folk art are featured in the collection. More than 7,000 American artists are represented, including major artists such as John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, Jacob Lawrence, Robert Rauschenberg, Nam June Paik, and Martin Puryear. The Smithsonian American Art Museum, begun in 1829, is the first federal art collection. The museum began with gifts from private collections and art organizations established in the nation's capital before the founding of the Smithsonian in 1846. The museum has grown steadily to become a center for the study, enjoyment, and preservation of America's cultural heritage. Today the collection consists of more than 40,000 artworks in all media, spanning more than 300 years of artistic achievement. The museum's historic building has undergone a renovation and reopened on July 1, 2006.Post a Countdown Widget
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