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Publisher
Phillips Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The Phillips Collection, America's first museum of modern art, was founded in 1921 by Duncan Phillips (1886-1966), a Washington DC collector who played a vital role in introducing America to contemporary art. Unusually for his time, Phillips saw American artists as fully equal to their European counterparts, often hanging their works side by side. Moreover, Phillips chose to buy and exhibit works according to stylistic continuities and affinities,...
Author
Publisher
Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
For renowned artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), watercolor was the medium through which he reinvented himself in the 1880s and painted his way into posterity. No one was more smitten with Whistler and his works than Gilded Age industrialist Charles Lang Freer, who amassed the world's largest collection of watercolors by the artist and included them in his bequest to the Smithsonian in 1906. Freer's collection comprises more than fifty examples...
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"William H. Johnson painted his Fighters for Freedom series in the mid-1940s as a tribute to African American activists, scientists, teachers, and performers as well as international leaders. 'Fighters for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justice' presents colorful and engaging portraits of figures like Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and Booker T. Washington, highlighting their achievements and underscoring the nation's struggle for freedom...
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