Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Renwick Gallery will be closed to the public all day Wednesday, January 22.
Museum: A Tale of Art, Life, and Everything In Between
Mom's the Word with artist Tyler Fuqua
Bill Traylor (ca. 1853–1949) is among the most important American artists of the twentieth century.
Eye Level spoke with Nora Atkinson, the Lloyd Herman Curator of Craft at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, to learn more about her upcoming exhibition No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man, opening at t
![Exhibition - Tamayo Rufino Tamayo, New York seen from the Terrace [Nueva York desde la terraza], 1937, oil on canvas, 20 3/8 x 34 3/8 in. FEMSA Collection. © Tamayo Heirs/Mexico/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Photo by Roberto Ortiz](https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.saam.media/files/styles/max_325x325/s3/images/2017-08/tamayo_new_york_terrace_0.jpg?itok=94tGIIyD)
Carlos Chávez was Mexico’s most important composer of the twentieth century, as well as a conductor, theorist, educator, and founder of the Mexican Symphony Orchestra.
![Exhibition - Tamayo Rufino Tamayo, Carnival [Carnaval], 1936, gouache on paper, 15 x 22 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2017.22 © Tamayo Heirs/Mexico/Licensed by VAGA, New York](https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.saam.media/files/styles/max_325x325/s3/images/2017-08/tamayo_carnaval_saam.jpg?itok=9xJ70TmF)
