How did the design for the Armory Show floorplan go from a traditional layout of rectangular rooms to the honeycomb format seen above? Leading Armory Show scholar Laurette E. McCarthy is on the case.
Blueprint of Armory Show floorplan, between 1912 and 1913. Walt Kuhn, Kuhn family papers, and Armory Show records, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Happy Mother’s Day!
Jessie Olssen (Tanner) and Jesse Ossawa Tanner posing for Christ learning to read by Henry O. Tanner, ca. 1910 / unidentified photographer. Henry Ossawa Tanner papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
A simple but expressive portrait of Richard Diebenkorn by his friend and fellow Bay Area painter Elmer Bischoff.
Richard Diebenkorn, between 1956 and 1959. Elmer Bischoff papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
A dramatically lit portrait of William Wyman at the potter’s wheel.
William Wyman, circa 1950 / unidentified photographer. William Wyman papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Yum.
Joseph Lindon Smith letter to his parents, 1894 Sept. 8. Joseph Lindon Smith papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
I bet someone could make a really cool animation out of this.
Page of photographs of various works by Hiram Powers and two images of the artist, 186-? / L. Powers, photographer. Hiram Powers papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Horses can be artists’ models too. Happy Derby Day!
p.s. I don’t think the guy on the far right understood the assignment.
Art students making sculptures of a horse, circa 1910 / unidentified photographer. Albert Laessle papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Did you know today is D.C.’s 211th Birthday?
Adolph Gottlieb postcard to Paul Bodin, 1937 Oct. 27. Paul Bodin papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Come for the adorable chameleon, stay for the fascinating story of matchbook conservation in our Leo Castelli Gallery records, in this blog post by Smithsonian conservator Nora Lockshin.
Image of a juvenile Brookesia micra standing on the head of a match. Creative Commons License courtesy Wikimedia Commons, Frank Glaw, Jörn Köhler, Ted M. Townsend, Miguel Vences.