Late Night with David Letterman premiered on network television on this night in 1982.Artist Eugenie Gershoy's Very Strong Man is performing an amazing and impossible feat that qualifies as a "stupid pet trick" of Late Night fame.
Late Night with American Art
Late Night with David Letterman premiered on network television on this night in 1982.Artist Eugenie Gershoy's Very Strong Man is performing an amazing and impossible feat that qualifies as a "stupid pet trick" of Late Night fame.
And now, à la Letterman, the "Top Ten" reasons why you should become a member of the Smithsonian American Art Museum!
10. 20% discount on purchases in the museum shop of the Renwick Gallery, the nation's museum of American craft.
9. 10% discount at all other Smithsonian Museum Shops, even when you order from our catalogue or online shop.
8. Special discounts on SAAM's award-winning journal, American Art, plus discounts on subscriptions to Art in America, The Magazine Antiques, and Interview.
7. Quarterly Members' Newsletter with updates about the museum, Treasures to Go exhibitions, and the Renwick Gallery.
6. At the sponsor level and above, you will receive reciprocal memberships to eleven other national museums.
5. Your gift is tax deductible.
4. You'll get exciting mail, not bills.
3. You will help support quality, free educational programs.
2. You will receive invitations to members-only preview tours, lectures, and other events.
1. The Smithsonian American Art Museum is your national art collection. Need we say more?
Pictured: Eugenie Gershoy, 1901–86, The Very Strong Man, 1936–40, polychromed dextrine, 23 x 13 7/8 x 9 5/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Erwin P. Vollmer .