Ginny Ruffner: Reforestation of the Imagination
Ginny Ruffner offers tongue-in-cheek descriptions of her fanciful flowers in this interactive “field guide.”
On Sunday, November 17, the Kogod Courtyard and the Courtyard Café will be closed to prepare for an event. The museum will close early at 5 p.m. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Books
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.
Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen
Trevor Paglen blurs the lines between art, science, and investigative journalism to construct unfamiliar and at times unsettling ways to see and interpret the world around us.
Diane Arbus: A box of ten photographs
In late 1969, Diane Arbus (1923–1971) began to work on a portfolio. She titled it A box of ten photographs.
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.