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Gold-fringed walls and piñata corncobs transform the Grand Salon of SAAM's Renwick Gallery and highlight the role of maize in North American visual culture.
Joseph Stella, Portrait of Clara Fasano, 1944, pencil and pastel on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum,Transfer from the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution 1973.32.1.