BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: A Day at the Museum

DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: A Day at the Museum:

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January 14, 2013 - May 16, 2013 (new opening and closing dates)
Letters, sketchbooks, diaries, photographs, and oral history recordings reveal the many ways artists experience museums. Artists may gain inspiration and a sense of community from museums. Some travel long distances, meticulously plotting a tour of museums along their route. Others make repeat visits to their local museums. Some artists even work in museums as guards all day and then head home to focus on their own work, their minds full of things they have seen.

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1. DAYMUS_130129_001.JPG: When we went to Europe, we went to see all the museums, which is what I always traveled for... I like scenery and that sort of thing, but I would never travel just to see the Grand Canyon because there are no paintings there. I mean I would like to see it, but I would rather go to a museum. -- Paul Cadmus
2. DAYMUS_130129_008.JPG: A Day at the Museum: A day at a museum might involve a whirlwind tour through a maze of galleries or hours looking at a single work of art. The experience is as varied as the museum visitor. The sight of a Renaissance masterpiece, the sounds echoing off vaulted ceilings, or a carefully orchestrated exhibition can trigger our imaginations, foster ideas, or spur memories, often at the same time. Artists may gain inspiration and a sense of community from museums. Some travel long distances, meticulously plotting a tour of museums along their route. Others make repeat visits to their local museums. Some artists even work in museums as guards all day and then head home to focus on their own work, their minds full of things they have seen. This selection of documents from collections at the Archives of American Art offers insight into the many ways artists experience museums. Letters, sketchbooks, diaries, photographs and oral history recording reveal the role of museums in the everyday lives of American artists. How will you remember your day at the museum?
3. DAYMUS_130129_020.JPG: Dorr Bothwell, sketch of the San Francisco Art Museum, February 20, 1942: During World War II, artist Dorr Bothwell lived in San Francisco. For about one month in 1942, she sketched a daily record of her wartime activities. Some days she prepared for blackouts, and other days, like February 20, she pursued her interests. That day she visited the retrospective exhibition of Eugene Berman at the San Francisco Art Museum.
4. DAYMUS_130129_032.JPG: F. Luis Mora, diary entry, March 1912: Painter F. Luis Mora was known for his charming depictions of everyday life in the early twentieth century. His petite pocket diaries reflect his scrupulous attention to his surroundings. This March 1912 entry features a sketch of a visitor contemplating artworks on exhibit at the Pratt Gallery of the Pratt Institute of Art in New York City.
5. DAYMUS_130129_040.JPG: Reginald Marsh, sketches of the Uffizi Gallery, 1926: Reginald Marsh was best known for his social realist vignettes of New York City. In his travels to Florence, Italy in 1926, he sketches the soaring vaults of the Uffizi Gallery and its treasure trove of sculptures.
6. DAYMUS_130129_060.JPG: Oscar Bluemner, notes on Suzanne au Bain, 1912: Oscar Bluemner was a master of color. Throughout his 1912 travels through Europe, he took copious notes the colors, lines, and shapes of paintings. At the Louvre, he studied Tintoretto's Suzanne at her Bath (ca. 1550). Bluemner's notes and diagrams, mostly handwritten in German, fill these pages and the back of a postcard reproduction of Tintoretto's painting.
7. DAYMUS_130129_070.JPG: Alfred Joseph Frueh letter to Guiliette Fanciulli, December 10, 1913: On December 10, 1913, caricaturist Alfred Frueh sent his fiancee Guilette her own gallery so that she could train for Gallery Marathon she would experience when she joined Frueh in Paris. It came complete with original works of art and a coat check.
8. DAYMUS_130129_083.JPG: Joshua Charles Taylor, diary entry, December 4, 1956: Art historian Joshua Charles Taylor specialized in American art and museology. WHen Taylor visited the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, he was skeptical of their techniques, He [sic] observed, I am still doubtful about the white walls for dark paintings such as the XIIIC panels. It makes the room look very smart and gives a snappy first impression of the works. But often the paintings are flattened by the contrast and look like reproductions on a page. The galleries were freezing cold. Taylor later became a director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (1970-1981) where he focused on creating intimate visitor experiences.
9. DAYMUS_130129_093.JPG: I remember I used to pick one picture. I'd look around seriously and pick one picture that I would just study for that day. -- Eleanor Antin
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