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• Luce en Español/Luce in Spanish

  
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  Recently, American Art staff member Tierney Sneeringer was very excited to conduct her first Spanish tour, welcoming the "Friends of the Canal Museum" to the Luce Foundation Center . To schedule a Spanish tour with Tierney, e-mail AmericanArtLuce@si.edu . Tierney Sneeringer, una empleada del Smithsonian American ...
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• Consider the Difference: American Women Artists

  
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  Linda Nochlin, Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art Linda Nochlin Consider the Difference: American Women Artists from Cassatt to Contemporary November 18 , 7 p.m. Smithsonian American Art Musuem Linda Nochlin, the Lila Acheson Wallace Professor ...
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• Roy DeCarava, 1919–2009

  
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  Roy DeCaravas Lingerie, New York Roy DeCarava, an American master, died October 27, 2009, a few weeks shy of his ninetieth birthday. Born in Harlem in 1919, and coming to adulthood during the Harlem Renaissance, DeCarava became a photographer of the street and the people who inhabited that day-to-day world. He ...
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• Picture This: Playing Punball

  
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  A museum visitor plays William T. Wileys Punball: Only One Earth. Youve seen the William T. Wiley exhibition. Now play the game! What, you havent seen the show yet? Well, nows your opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. On Thursday, November 12, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., visitors will have a rare opportunity ...
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• Picture This: Albert Paleys Portal Gates

  
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  Left: the museums David DeAnna, contract art handler Jorge Herrera, and Justin Chambers move the right gate into place. Right: Herrera, DeAnna, and Jerry Hovanec finish the installation. Our exhibitions team was up and at ‘em early on October 27 to unpack and reinstall sculptor Albert Paley’s Portal Gates at ...
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• Dorothea Lange Biographer talk and book signing at SAAM tonight!

  
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  Dorothea at Work Dorothea Lange: A Life beyond Limits  7:00 PM McEvoy Auditorium, Lower Level American Art Museum Linda Gordon , author of the first biography of photographer Dorothea Lange, shares her research and knowledge of Lange as a mother, artist, feminist, political activist, environmentalist, and ...
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• Dave Hickey and the State of the Arts

  
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  "My ten millionth grandfather was Jonathan Edwards," critic Dave Hickey told us last week as part of the Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture Series at American Art. He added, "But Im not going to give you any of that." What he did give us, instead, was a thought-provoking hour on the nature of contemporary art in ...
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• Vertical File Collection at the AA/PG Library

  
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  Vertical files in art museums and libraries are repositories of “ephemera” -- things that are not intended to last a long time. Among other things, the ephemera collected in the artist files may be: announcements of exhibitions, small catalogs, press releases, clippings from various print sources, and ...
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• Discovering 1934: The Stories Behind the Paintings

  
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  John Cunnings Manhattan Skyline "What kind of highway signs did they have in Minnesota in 1934?" was just one of the questions Ann Prentice Wagner, guest curator of the exhibition 1934: A New Deal for Artists , needed to answer to place the paintings in context. "I was asking and answering questions of the ...
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• Halloween 2009: Goblin Lanterns by Helen Hyde

  
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  Goblin Lanterns by Helen Hyde For the ghostly and ghoulish among you, I found Helen Hydes Goblin Lanterns of 1906. The artist, born in New York in 1868, moved with her family to San Francisco two years later, where her father prospered in a business associated with the gold rush. Educated at Wellesley and the ...
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• In Memoriam (with a Personal Story): Ruth Duckworth

  
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  A Ruth Duckworth sculpture adorns my bookcase. Earlier this week I was saddened to read in an email that sculptor Ruth Duckworth had passed away at ninety on October 18th. We are frequently confronted with obituaries of artists that signify the end of an era. Just this year we’ve lost Andrew Wyeth, Merce ...
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• Picture This: Talking About Slow Art

  
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  How long does it take to really see a work of art? Some visitors to American Arts Slow Art event this past Saturday had a go at answering that question and then discussed the artworks they had taken a long look at in the museum. A few really got all of us talking, including Philip Evergoods Dowager in a Wheelchair ...
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• National Apple Month

  
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  Golden Noble, Lord Derby, Devonshire Quarrenden, Gravenstein, Ellisons Orange . . . what are these you might ask? They are varieties of apples that can be found in   The new book of apples  by Joan Morgan and Alison Richards with paintings by Elisabeth Dowle (available in the Libraries Botany and Horticulture ...
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• Hope During Hard Times, 1929–1939

  
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  Leah Rand interned this past summer and was co-curator for the exhibition Hard Times: 1929–1939, organized by the Archives of American Art, which is on view through November 8th in the Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery on the first floor of the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture. Artist ...
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