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Blog Category: New Acquisitions
SAAM's collection, which includes artworks in all media—from painting and sculpture to time-based media, photographs, self-taught art, and contemporary craft—reveals key aspects of America’s rich artistic and cultural history from the colonial period to today. In recent years, the museum’s acquisition efforts have focused on strengthening its modern and contemporary collections, as well as acquiring major works by Latinx artists. Browse highlights of artworks recently added to the collection in New Acquisitions.
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Dawoud Bey Photographs in Focus: Underground Railroad Sites
Dawoud Bey’s metaphorical photographs of Underground Railroad sites in Ohio turn scenes of darkness into symbols of hopeCategories -
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The Lost Kusamas
Discovering four watercolors by Yayoi Kusama in SAAM's Joseph Cornell Study CenterCategories -
How Arthur Jafa Created a Contemporary Guernica
The curator of time-based media examines the importance of a powerful work that speaks to our times...and times past.Categories -
Nicholas Nixon's The Brown Sisters
The museum recently acquired The Brown Sisters, an intimate series of forty photographs that spans four decades and captures the poignancy of family relationships and bonds between siblings.Categories -
New Acquisitions: Judith Schaechter's The Birth of Eve
Nora Atkinson, the Lloyd Herman Curator of Craft, joined American Art's Renwick Gallery staff earlier this year. She talked with Eye Level about the museum's recent acquisition The Birth of Eve by Judith Schaechter, which joins her 1990 work A Little Torcher also in the museum's permanent collection.Categories -
New Acquisitions: Purvis Young’s The StruggleAmerican Art's curator of folk and self-taught art, Leslie Umberger, talks about the museum's recent acquisition of a major painting by Purvis Young, The Struggle. The artwork can be seen in the museum's east wing gallery on the third floor.Categories -
New Acquisitions: Donald Judd's Untitled
American Art's sculpture curator, Karen Lemmey, talks about the museum's recent acquisition by Donald Judd.Categories -
Video Games: Now A Part of American Art's Collection
Though relatively new as a medium, the brief history of video games already includes several generations of both games and gamers.
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Penn on Paper: Acquiring 100 Masterworks by Irving Penn
Mingering Mike: Just for the Record
Eye Level had a chance to speak with Leslie Umberger, curator of folk and self-taught art, about the museum's recent acquisition of the Mingering Mike collection, comprised of well over one hundred pieces of musical ephemera made between 1965 and 1979 by a self-taught Washington, D.C. artist who has consistently chosen to conceal his true identity.Categories
New Acquisitions: Albert Pinkham Ryder's The Lorelei
I first experienced Albert Pinkham Ryder's work through slides projected onto a dingy classroom wall and tiny images reprinted in my college textbook on nineteenth-century American art. Needless to say, neither of these methods of reproduction did his work justice.Categories
New Acquisition: On The Road with Allan D'Arcangelo's US Highway 1
US Highway 1 was acquired by American Art earlier this year. This post is part of an ongoing series spotlighting works that have been recently added to the collection.Categories
Alexis Rockman's Manifest Destiny To Become Part of American Art's Collection
Alexis Rockman's monumental painting, Manifest Destiny, has just been approved for acquisition. The painting is made up of four contiguous panels that extend twenty-four feet in length, and depicts the Brooklyn waterfront several hundred years in the future.Categories