Key	Imgs	Short Description
2013_DC_SIPG_Day_Museum	19	DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: A Day at the Museum A Day at the Museum: 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,...
2014_DC_SIPG_DayLife	50	DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: A Day in the Life: Artists' Diaries A Day in the Life: Artists' Diaries from the Archives of American Art September 26, 2014 – February 28, 2015 Reading an artist’s diary is the next best thing to being there. Direct and private, diaries provide firsthand accounts of appointments made and met, places seen, and work in progress—all laced...
2015_DC_SIPG_Yasuo	31	DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: Artist Teacher Organizer: Yasuo Kuniyoshi in the Archives of American Art Artist Teacher Organizer: Yasuo Kuniyoshi in the Archives of American Art March 30, 2015 – July 10, 2015 In 1906, when Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889–1952) was just 16, he emigrated by himself from Japan to the United States with two hundred dollars in his pocket. Kuniyoshi eventually made his way to New York...
2017_DC_SIPG_B4ICats	54	DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: Before Internet Cats: Feline Finds from the Archives of American Art Before Internet Cats: Feline Finds from the Archives of American Art April 28 - October 29, 2017 Long before cats clawed their way onto the Internet, they made themselves at home in the Archives of American Art. This exhibition explores the myriad ways in which cats are represented in rare documents...
2019_DC_SIPG_Bloom	23	DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: Bloom: Flowers from the Archives of American Art Bloom: Flowers from the Archives of American Art March 2, 2019 – September 2, 2019 Sketches and drawings of flowers from our collections provide a fascinating opportunity to examine flowers from both an artistic and scientific point of view. The exhibition coincides with Smithsonian Gardens' biannual...
2016_DC_SIPG_Legacy	11	DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: Expanding the Legacy: New Collections on African American Art Expanding the Legacy: New Collections on African American Art September 23, 2016 – March 19, 2017 In celebration of the 2016 grand opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Archives of American Art presents selections from recently acquired collections...
2016_DC_SIPG_Source	18	DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: Finding: Source Material in the Archives of American Art Finding: Source Material in the Archives of American Art April 22, 2016 – August 21, 2016 In this exhibition, the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art reveals how artists find inspiration. The Archives’ collections hold a kaleidoscopic array of source materials; many of these materials are somewhat...
2013_DC_SIPG_HHC	70	DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: Handmade Holiday Cards Handmade Holiday Cards from the Archives of American Art November 27, 2013 – January 5, 2014 The cards featured in this exhibition -- selected from the hundreds in the Archives of American Art's collections -- reveal how artists imagined the holidays through whimsical watercolors, quirky collages, and...
2012_DC_SIPG_Pollock	23	DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: Jackson Pollock, Memories Arrested in Space Memories Arrested in Space: a centennial tribute to Jackson Pollock from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art January 28, 2012 – May 15, 2012 Exhibited in Washington, D.C. at the Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) is an American icon. Creator of rhythmic and energetic...
2010_DC_SIPG_Lists	14	DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: Lists
2015_DC_SIPG_Black_Books	44	DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: Little Black Books Little Black Books: Address Books from the Archives of American Art August 7, 2015 – November 1, 2015 This exhibition showcases a selection of personal address books of influential American artists, from Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner to Joseph Cornell and Ad Reinhardt. Like diaries, these...
2011_DC_SIPG_Big_Lives	46	DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: Little Pictures, Big Lives Little Pictures, Big Lives: Snapshots from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art July 1, 2011 – October 3, 2011 Some 150 images of celebrated and famous artists offer clues to the intimate side of public personae: to the people and the things they cared about, where they’ve been, what they did,...
2014_DC_SIPG_Monuments	111	DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: Monuments Men This exhibition was tied into the release of the Monuments Men movie. Monuments Men: On the Frontline to Save Europe's Art, 1942–1946 February 7 to April 20, 2014 During World War II, an unlikely team of soldiers was charged with identifying and protecting European cultural sites, monuments, and...
2018_DC_SIPG_Beaten	51	DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: Off the Beaten Track Off the Beaten Track: A Road Trip through the Archives of American Art December 8, 2017 - June 3, 2018 Join us on a road trip through the Archives of American Art. The photographs, sketches, diaries, correspondence, and video recordings on view reveal how artists have shaped and are shaped by their...
2018_DC_SIPG_Pushing	59	DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: Pushing the Envelope: Mail Art Pushing the Envelope: Mail Art from the Archives of American Art August 10, 2018 – January 4, 2019 Beginning in the 1960s, artists from around the world looked to the postal system as an alternative means of producing, distributing, and receiving art. Mail art (alternatively called “correspondence...
2009_DC_SIPG_Xmas	57	DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: Season's Greetings “Season’s Greetings: Holiday Cards from the Archives of American Art” celebrates the personal style and sentiment of artists’ handmade holiday cards. This exhibit will be on display from Nov. 20 to Jan. 10, 2010, in the Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery at the Smithsonian’s Donald W. Reynolds Center for...
2023_DC_SIPG_Staff_Picks	69	DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: Staff Picks: Our Favorite Things from the Collection Staff Picks: Our Favorite Things from the Collection June 1, 2023 – September 21, 2025 Founded in 1954, the Archives of American Art is the most widely used research center in the world that tells the story of visual art in the United States through primary sources. A letter, a scrapbook, a...
2008_DC_SIPG_Kisses	6	DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: Thousand Kisses A Thousand Kisses: Love Letters from the Archives of American Art On view in Washington, D.C. at the Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery, located inside the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture January 25, 2008 through June 2, 2008 Love letters bring out the voyeur in most of us....
2019_DC_SIPG_Feminist	89	DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: What Is Feminist Art? What Is Feminist Art? November 26, 2019 – November 29, 2020 In 1976, feminist activists Ruth Iskin, Lucy Lippard, and Arlene Raven organized an exhibition centered on the question: “What is Feminist Art?” They invited artists to answer this question on a letter-sized piece of paper. Hundreds of...
2011_DC_SIPG_Words	8	DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: Words Cannot Express Words Cannot Express: Death in the Archives October 31, 2011 – December 31, 2011 Death is perhaps the only certainty in life. For those experiencing the death of a friend, family member, loved one, or an admired figure, words are often inadequate to give voice to the intense emotions involved. When...

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