#Smithsonian American Art Museum

[galleryofart]

The Fair Student (Girl Reading)

Artist: Daniel Huntington (American, 1816-1906)

Date: 1858

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Smithsonian American Art, Museum, Washington, DC, United States

Description

An interior scene depicting a profile image of a young woman seated at a table, her attention directed to a large book resting on the table in front of her. She wears a historical costume featuring an off-the- shoulder dress with wide sleeves adorned with lace cuffs, a beaded necklace, and a lace cap. Hanging on the wall in the background is a painting depicting a man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a white ruff around the neck.

[lionofchaeronea]

Night and Her Daughter Sleep, Mary L. Macomber, 1902

[oncanvas]

Summer Plumes, Gustave Cimiotti, circa 1928-29

Oil on canvas 50 ¼ x 40 ⅛ in. (127.7 x 101.9 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA

[garadinervi]

Cynthia Schira, Table/Cloth, (handwoven linen and cotton), 1998 [Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Gift of the artist in memory of Patti Zoppetti. © Cynthia Schira]

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Frank Weston Benson (1862-1951) "Summer" (1890) Oil on canvas Impressionism Located in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, United States

[thefugitivesaint]

Margaret Ann Gaug (1909-1994), 'Submarine Interlude', 1936 Source

[allegorypaintings]

L' Automne

Artist: Pierre Cecile Puvis De Chavannes (French, 1824-1898)

Date: c. 1864

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, United States

[arthistoryanimalia]

#TurtleTuesday:

Jacques Hnizdovsky (Ukrainian-American, 1915-1985)

Turtle, 1962

woodcut, 15 3⁄4 x 23 1⁄4 in. (40.0 x 59.1 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum 1967.77.7

(probably a Radiated Tortoise)

[antronaut]

Terry Winters - Rhizome (1998)

linoleum cut on paper 48.3 x 63.2 cm

[henk-heijmans]

Ryder's House, 1933, Smithsonian American Art Museum - by Edward Hopper (1882 - 1967), American

[evalcea]

Summer

Thomas Wilmer Dewing

oil on canvas, c. 1890

Smithsonian American Art Museum

[lionofchaeronea]

Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler (Mrs. John Jay Chapman), John Singer Sargent, 1893

[oncanvas]

Central Park and the Plaza, William Anderson Coffin, 1917-18

Oil on canvas 24 ¼ x 29 ¼ in. (61.6 x 74.3 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA

[garadinervi]

Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Will), from the Untitled Portfolio, (photo-offset lithograph and screenprint on paper), 1985 [Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC. © Barbara Kruger]

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Romaine Brooks (1874-1970) "Una, Lady Troubridge" (1924) Oil on canvas Located in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, United States Una Troubridge was a British aristocrat, literary translator, and the lover of Radclyffe Hall, author of the 1928 groundbreaking lesbian novel, "The Well of Loneliness." Troubridge appears with a sense of formality and importance typical of upper-class portraiture, but with the sitter's prized dachshunds in place of the traditional hunting dog. Troubridge's impeccably tailored clothing, cravat, and bobbed hair convey the fashionable and daring androgyny associated with the so-called new woman. Her monocle suggested multiple symbolic associations to contemporary British audiences: it alluded to Troubridge's upper-class status, her Englishness, her sense of rebellion, and possibly her lesbian identity.

[jadeseadragon]

Thomas Hart Benton, Wheat, 1967, oil on wood, 20 x 21 in. (50.8 x 53.3 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum.