#smithsonian american art museum
Look who we found at the beach this weekend.
WhenTim Jerman was a child, he couldn’t decide whether to become a marine biologist or an artist. So he became an artist who created intricate glass sculptures of aquatic life.
This piece, “Hermit Crab” (2000), is in our @americanartmuseum.
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We hope your weeked rocks.
A rock concert inspired artist Debra Baxter to create her “Devil Horns Crystal Brass Knuckles” series. This one, a lefty, is on view at our @americanartmuseum’s #RenwickGallery, which is home to the museum’s collection of contemporary craft and decorative art.
Debra Baxter, “Devil Horns Crystal Brass Knuckles (Lefty),“ 2015, quartz crystal and sterling silver. Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of the artist in honor of Joanna and David Baxter © 2015, Debra Baxter
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August Breakfast/Maine, Carolyn Brady, 1997
Watercolor on paper
28 x 37 ⅛ in. (71.1 x 94.3 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA
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Source #7, Leon Berkowitz, 1976
Oil on canvas
98 ¾ x 79 in. (250.7 x 200.6 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA
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Abbot Handerson Thayer and others, INSECTS— Colored beetles, landscape, study folder for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom, n.d., various media and collage on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the heirs of Abbot Handerson Thayer
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Alice Pike Barney (1857-1931)
“Dream Book” (1901)
Oil on canvas
Located in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, United States
The Lord Is My Shepherd, Eastman Johnson, ca. 1863
Cederquist, John. Ghost Boy. 1992. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
joined and glued birch plywood, sitka spruce, and poplar with copper leaf, epoxy resin inlay, and aniline dyes.
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Arthur Espenet Carpenter, Staircase, 1969,
Hyedua and Oak,
Sight 192 x 84 in. (487.7 x 213.4 cm)
This graceful structure by Arthur Espenet Carpenter comprises fourteen curved, interlocking steps radiating around a center post. As Carpenter intended, the intrinsic warmth of the wood and the organic forms encourage interaction along multiple fronts, including movement up and down the steps and pushing and pulling the propeller-like treads.
It is a staircase for imagining: the spiral steps mimic curved forms of nature, pushing against the grain of right angles and square rooms.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of David L. Davies and Jack Weeden, 1998.15A-S
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