Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020
Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020 features artists Lauren Fensterstock, Timothy Horn, Debora Moore, and Rowland Ricketts.
Books
Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture
Explorer and scientist Alexander von Humboldt left a lasting impression on American visual arts, sciences, literature, and politics.
Ginny Ruffner: Reforestation of the Imagination
Ginny Ruffner offers tongue-in-cheek descriptions of her fanciful flowers in this interactive “field guide.”
Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor
Bill Traylor (ca. 1853–1949) is regarded today as one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century.
Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan
Few photographers have captured more compelling images of the untamed American West than Timothy H. O’Sullivan.
Harlem Heroes: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten
Author Carl Van Vechten (1880–1964) began making portraits in 1932. Over the next three decades, he asked writers, musicians, athletes, politicians, and others to sit for him—many of them central figures in the Harlem Renaissance.
American Photographs: The First Century from the Isaacs Collection in the National Museum of American Art
In the nineteenth century, people from all walks of life embraced the new medium of photography with unparalleled enthusiasm. For artist and inventor Samuel F. B.
In Search of the Corn Queen: American Scene series, No.1
Greta Pratt returns to the county fairs of her childhood in the American Midwest, creating photographs that capture the spirit of rural life in the region.
Spanish Harlem ("American Scene" series, No. 3)
Joseph Rodriguez’s color photographs bring the reader inside Spanish Harlem, where he documents not only the grim realities of drug abuse, AIDS, and crime in New York’s oldest barrio, but also its vibrant street life.