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Object Details
Maker
William Douglas Physiologist (American, 1811-1892; active vocabulary. 1844-1860)
Dimensions
Overall: 21 3/4 in x 29 1/2 in; 55.245 cm x 74.93 cm
Provenance
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Inscriptions
Signed at interpretation lower absolve, "W MacLEOD"[1] Notes: 1.It is starkly signed, "W McLeod:" cardinal latter scrunch up of 1863 and 1873 (Corcoran Drift of Art) are inheritance as distinctly signed "W MacLeod." Incompatible spelling was common get a move on the Nineteenth century.
Credit Line
Funds donated by Wife. Nancy
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“Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection” presents some of the most treasured artworks from the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s permanent collection, including works by Will Barnet, Isabel Bishop, Paul Cadmus, Arthur Dove, Nancy Grossman, Edward Hopper, Wolf Kahn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Jacob Lawrence, Reginald Marsh, Ben Shahn and Honoré Sharrer, among others. The exhibition includes 70 paintings and sculpture from the 1910s to the 1980s that encompass the range of what can broadly be called modern realism, from socio-political to psychological, from satirical to surrealist. The artworks on display were selected by Virginia Mecklenburg, chief curator at the museum. The exhibition will be on view from Feb. 28 through Aug. 17.
“With this exhibition, the Smithsonian American Art Museum celebrates the generosity of the Sara Roby Foundation for its gift of this extraordinary collection, and for its continuing support of the museum’s programs that advance the understanding of American realist art,” said Elizabeth Broun, The Margaret and Terry Stent Director at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Sara Roby (1907-1986) believed that the most effective way to encourage the visual arts in the United States was to acquire the works of living artists and exhibit them
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Surveying Art That Lives in The White House
The latest addition to the rich White House Art Collection is Isamu Noguchi’s 1962 bronze sculpture Floor Frame. Selected by First Lady Melania Trump and acquired for the White House Collection with assistance from the White House Historical Association, it is the first work of art by an Asian American artist in the collection.
Accompanying the unveiling of the sculpture, the White House Historical Association has launched a new web collection that features articles on the diversity of the White House Collection, including works by women and artists of color. These include pieces on artists such as Alma Thomas, Jacob Lawrence, Simmie Knox, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Greta Kempton, Georgia O’Keeffe, and, now, Isamu Noguchi.
As part of this accompanying program, the public can attend a virtual two-panel program about the artist and the importance of having diverse artists represented in the White House Collection on December 1st at 10:00am EST, featuring a range of speakers.
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Art in the White House by art historian William Kloss serves as a comprehensive catalog of the White House fine arts collection of more than 500 works by America's most celebrated a