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Five Georgia O’Keeffe paintings in the current exhibition, Cross Currents: Modern Art from the Sam Rose and Julie Walters Art Collection, create a mini exhibition in themselves.

On view in our current exhibition at the Renwick Gallery, Peter Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years, are three of the artist’s large-scale paintings: Blue Remington, Red Through Black #3, and Falling

Gene Kloss felt that immersion in nature was essential to the production of art. Her paintings and etchings were directly informed by nature and she couldn’t

In This Case is a series of ongoing posts on art in the Luce Foundation Center, a visible art storage facility at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Donald Sultan’s industrial landscape series depict an array of catastrophes, including forest fires, railway accidents, arsons, and industrial plants exuding toxic plumes. Twelve of these

Pop artist James Rosenquist, who died last week at the age of 83, created large canvases that were influenced by his early years as a

Before Betsy Broun retired from the helm of the Smithsonian American Art Museum last fall, she gave a talk where she revealed her top ten works (ok, seventeen

Armed with two centuries of source material and an X-ACTO knife, Michael Tunk’s “Analog Collage” series offers strange, absorbing worlds and portraits. In his “The

Some gorgeous paintings from Los Angeles-based artist Andrew Hem’s new show, which opens this weekend in Paris:

A selection of work by Texas-born, California-based illustrator Jay Torres. Playing with distinctly dark tones, barren landscapes, strange figures, and Catholic iconographies, Torres offers a