#smithsonian american art museum artists

[lionofchaeronea]

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

[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

[oncanvas]

Iron Will, Margarita Cabrera, 2013

Screenprint with vinyl and thread 30 x 20 in. (76.2 x 50.8 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA

[collectionstilllife]

Thomas Hovenden (Irish, active in U.S., 1840-1895) • Still Life with Fan and Roses • 1874 • Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

[internationalemeteorologie]

Joseph Stella

Neapolitan Song. 1929

[artemlegere-art]

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Artist:  Alice Pike Barney (American, 1857-1931)

Genre: Portrait

Date: c.1895

Medium: Pastel on Paperboard

Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum

Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth (February 12, 1884 – February 20, 1980) was an American writer and socialite. She was the eldest child of U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt and his only child with his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt. Longworth led an unconventional and controversial life. Her marriage to Representative Nicholas Longworth III, a Republican Party leader and the 38th speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, was shaky, and her only child, Paulina, was from her affair with Senator William Borah.

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WomensHistoryMonth, here is the official portrait of Julie Packard (b. 1953) from the Monterey Bay Aquarium and MBARI now in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery:

Artist: Hope Gangloff, born 1974 Sitter: Julie Packard, born 1953 Date: 2019 Type/Medium: Painting, Acrylic on canvas Dimensions in Frame: 212.1 × 141 × 6.4 cm (83 1/2 × 55 1/2 × 2 1/2") Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery NPG.2019.3

[t13shoots]

Glenn Kaino and Tommie Smith the monumental sculpture Bridge

[bruce-morrow]

JFK at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, 2023

GIF: Bruce Morrow

[rumforall]

Cat in Eakins's Yard

Thomas Eakins, American, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1844–1916

[lionofchaeronea]

Georgetown Corner in the Rain, Bernice Cross, 1934

Photo credit: Smithsonian American Art Museum under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license

[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.

[longlistshort]

The Agua Caliente Cultural Museum opened in 2023  in a new location in Palm Springs as part of the Agua Caliente Cultural Plaza. It consists of several exhibition areas that tell the story of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. These include an immersive digitally animated film in a theater at the entrance, scale replicas of the Indian Canyons, and videos, historical photographs and documents. The museum also includes several artifacts including those found during excavations for the plaza that are over 7,000 years old.

The museum also has a gallery for rotating exhibitions focused on traditional and contemporary Native American art. Currently on view is For a Love of His People, the black and white photography of Horace Poolaw.

From the museum–

Horace Poolaw (Kiowa, 1906-1984) was born during a time of great change for his people—one year before Oklahoma statehood and six years after the U.S. government approved an allotment policy that ended the reservation period. A rare American Indian photographer who documented Indian subjects, he began making a visual history in the mid-1920s and continued for the next 50 years.

Poolaw photographed his friends and family, and events important to them—weddings, funerals, parades, fishing, driving cars, going on dates, going to war, playing baseball. When he sold his photos at fairs and community events, he often stamped the reverse: “A Poolaw Photo, Pictures by an Indian, Horace M. Poolaw, Anadarko, Okla.�� Not simply by “an Indian,” but by a Kiowa man strongly rooted in his multi-tribal community, Poolaw’s work celebrates his subjects’ place in American life and preserves an insider’s perspective on a world few outsiders are familiar with—the Native America of the Southern Plains during the mid-20th century.

Organized around the central theme of Poolaw as a man of his community and time, For a Love of His People is based on the Poolaw Photography Project, a research initiative established by Poolaw’s daughter, Linda, in 1989 at Stanford University and carried on by Native scholars Nancy Marie Mithlo (Chiricahua Apache) and Tom Jones (Ho-Chunk) of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw is organized by the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. The exhibition was curated by Tom Jones (Ho-chunk) and Nancy Marie Mithlo (Chiricahua Apache).

[oncanvas]

La Guadalupe, Scherezade García, 2011

Screenprint on paper 20 ⅞ x 17 ¼ in. (53.0 x 43.8 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA

[theaskew]

Gronk (Glugio Nicandro) (Mexican-American b. 1954, lives and works in Los Angeles), La Tormenta, 1994. Woodcut, 29 1/2 x 29 1/2 in. | 74.9 x 74.9 cm. (Source: SAAM, Smithsonian American Art Museum)