SAAM Stories: From the Collection

SAAM is home to one of the largest and most inclusive collections of American art in the world, capturing the aspirations, character and imagination of the American people. Explore highlights from the eighteenth century to today.

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  Expression or Meditation: Coloring Pages for All Ages

  Coloring books can offer space for creativity or release for children and adults. Inspired by artwork in SAAM’s collection, while away a quiet afternoon with some art supplies and our coloring sheets.

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  Luce Foundation Center

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  Performing Ambiguity: The Art of Tseng Kwong Chi

  In his all too short career, the photographer rejected conventional codes of identity and insisted on new, ambiguous conditions of being.

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  Pride

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  Contemporary Craft in Focus: The Queer Houses of Brooklyn

  Artist L.J. Roberts integrates queer theory with traditional “domestic crafts” such as knitting and embroidery.

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  Contemporary Craft

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  Pride

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  Artists, Friends, Lovers: Paul Cadmus and George Tooker

  Celebrating Pride with paintings by two artists whose lives intersected and whose artworks explore similar themes

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  Pride

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  Contemporary Craft in Focus: Warrior with Color Face

  Sculptor Wanxin Zhang explores history, politics, and culture through clay

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  Contemporary Craft

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  Contemporary Craft in Focus: Harlem Hellfighters

  Learn more about artist Bisa Butler's vivid portraits of African American heroes from World War I

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  Contemporary Craft

  From the Collection

  New Acquisitions

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  Why I Am Not a Painter: on Michael Goldberg's Sardines

  What happens when poet Frank O'Hara walks into Mike Goldberg's studio while he's working on a painting?

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  Depicting Love in Diane Arbus’s A woman with her baby monkey, 1971

  An unexpected email reveals more about the subject of one of Diane Arbus’s celebrated portraits

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  Exploring the American Psyche with Carrie Mae Weems

  On the multimedia installation, Lincoln, Lonnie, and Me, recently acquired by SAAM

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  Through the Lens of Photographer Linda Rich

  A look into the daily lives of women living in one close-knit Baltimore neighborhood

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  Presenting Ten More Visionaries and Rule Breakers in SAAM's Collection

  The Drawn to Art comic series continues to share the lives of women artists you should know

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  Contemporary Craft in Focus: This Present Moment

  Discover the inspiration and call to action behind this monumental neon artwork

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  Contemporary Craft

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  Edmonia Lewis and Her Stamp on American Art

  Explore the life and work of this groundbreaking American sculptor

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  Elinor Cahn: Photographer and Poet of East Baltimore in the 1970s

  Exploring the spirit of one American neighborhood in a time of change

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  Chicanx Graphic Arts in Focus: The Bounty of the Calendario de Comida

  Exploring tradition, place, and social justice through food

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  Chicano Graphics

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  From the Collection

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  Ringing in the New Year with Venetian Glass Goblets: “Auld Lang Syne” Edition

  Take a closer look at four fabulous glasses to inspire a virtual celebratory toast to 2022

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