Museum

Feb18
Historic House Exhibition
A Genius for Place
Feb 18, 2012 — Aug 5, 2012
Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing Gallery
Beginning in the late nineteenth century, new fortunes in the United States made it possible for many city-dwellers to commission country estates. Wea...

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Feb13
Historic House Exhibition
George Catlin’s American Buffalo
Feb 13, 2015 — May 3, 2015
Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing Gallery
Americans’ fascination with the American West is heralded in the 40 paintings that comprise this Smithsonian exhibition featuring the work of Ge...

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Aug23
Historic House Exhibition
The Art of Seating
Aug 23, 2014 — Dec 31, 2014
Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing Gallery
You’ll never sit the same.  The Museum’s gallery will be transformed with this exhibition featuring more than 40 iconic chairs that t...

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Feb7
Historic House Exhibition
American Moderns, 1910-1960
Feb 7, 2014 — May 4, 2014
Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing Gallery
Ranging widely in subject matter and style, the fifty-three paintings and four sculptures featured in this exhibition from the Brooklyn Museum were pr...

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Nov2
Historic House Exhibition
Reynolda Moderns
Nov 2, 2013 — Jun 1, 2014
Northeast Bedroom Gallery
In the early 20th century, artists in America began challenging the idea that the purpose of art is to represent reality. Instead of striving to produ...

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Oct5
Historic House Exhibition
Partisans
Oct 5, 2013 — Mar 16, 2014
West Bedroom Gallery
Social injustice has long motivated artists to create work as a form of protest. In the first half of the 20th century, the tumult of World War I and ...

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