BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Exhibit: MVSEVM (by David Beck)

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. MVSEVM_120331_001.JPG: MVSEVM, 2006 David Beck David Beck was commissioned to create this work of art for the 2006 reopening of the renovated Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery. MVSEVM references the history of this building when it was the U.S. Patent Office, as well as the development of museums in general. Many details refer specifically to collections now displayed in this building.
2. MVSEVM_120331_089.JPG: MVSEVM references the early history of this building when it served as the U.S. Patent Office. Twenty-four cases contain objects that "double" as patent models and icons associated with prominent American artists. Look for Wayne Thiebaud's gumball machine, Stuart Davis's eggbeater, and Jasper Johns's lead light bulb.
3. MVSEVM_120331_091.JPG: Eye miniatures line the insides of two of MVSEVM's doors. They are similar to those created in the nineteenth century as "tokens of affection" for loved ones. Our collection includes several eye miniatures, which are displayed in the Luce Foundation Center for American Art on the third floor.
4. MVSEVM_120331_093.JPG: Beck depicted President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln dancing at his second inaugural ball, which was held on the third floor of this building in 1865. The figures refer to a famous sculpture by Elie Nadelman, Tango (1919).
5. MVSEVM_120331_095.JPG: Nineteenth-century museums were filled with encyclopedic collections of objects. Marvels of nature and man-made artistic creations were displayed side by side, as you see them in Beck's MVSEVM. A tiny magnifying glass allows viewers to read his initials, inscribed on a brick fragment from this historic building.
6. MVSEVM_120331_098.JPG: The latticed canopy of branches resting on "ghost tree" posts commemorates the enclosure of this building's open-air, central courtyard with a contemporary ceiling designed by Norman Foster in 2007.
7. MVSEVM_120331_100.JPG: Beck included portrait miniatures of important American artists whom he especially admires. His portrait of Franz Kline incorporates one of the artist's signature abstract paintings in the background.
8. MVSEVM_120331_103.JPG: "Cabinets of wonders," which housed precious objects and exotic specimens from nature collected by well-traveled sea captains and explorers, were the European precursors to modern-day museums. Beck included twelve drawers and filled them with hand-made objects and specimens that mimic those collections of long ago.
9. MVSEVM_120331_105.JPG: The artist created small cases filled with masks and other objects, recalling artifacts gathered in the Pacific by the Wilkes Expedition (1838-1842), which were displayed in this building in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Description of Subject Matter: MVSEVM

David Beck was commissioned to create this work of art for the 2006 reopening of the renovated Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery. MVSEVM references the history of this building when it was the U.S. Patent Office, as well as the development of museums in general. Many details refer specifically to collections now displayed in this building.

The above was from https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/mvsevm-75590
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