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• Picturing the American Buffalo: George Catlin and Modern Native American Artists

  

  October 11, 2019 - April12, 2020

  Smithsonian American Art Museum (8th and F Streets, NW)

  "Picturing the American Buffalo: George Catlin and Modern Native American Artists" examines representations of buffalo and their integration into the lives of Native Americans on the Great Plains in the 1830s and in the twentieth century.

• Chiura Obata: American Modern

  

  November 27, 2019 — May 25, 2020

  Smithsonian American Art Museum (8th and F Streets, NW)

  Japanese-born artist Chiura Obata’s seemingly effortless synthesis of different art traditions defies the usual division between “East” and “West.” This exhibition presents the most comprehensive survey of his rich and varied body of work to date, from bold California landscape paintings to intimate drawings of his experiences of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

• Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture

  

  March 20, 2020 – August 16, 2020

  Smithsonian American Art Museum (8th and F Streets, NW)

  This exhibition reveals how the influential naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) shaped American perceptions of nature and the way American cultural identity became grounded in our relationship with the environment.