Museum

Aug10

Historic House Exhibition

Things Wondrous & Humble

Aug 10, 2013 — Dec 8, 2013

Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing Gallery

Still life paintings speak volumes about identity, history, and culture. Drawn primarily from the Reynolda House collection accompanied by key loans f...

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Mar2

Historic House Exhibition

Affinities (II)

Mar 2, 2013 — Aug 4, 2013

Northeast Bedroom Gallery

Imagine looking at two different works of art hung next to each other in a gallery. The first is a nineteenth-century landscape depicting brilliant a...

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Feb23

Historic House Exhibition

Star Power: Edward Steichen’s Glamour Photography

Feb 23, 2013 — May 19, 2013

Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing Gallery

The photographer and painter Edward Steichen is famous for introducing modernism to America by sending the work of avant-garde European artists back t...

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Dec15

Historic House Exhibition

The Armory Show

Dec 15, 2012 — Jun 23, 2013

West Bedroom Gallery

In February 1913, the groundbreaking Armory Show opened in New York City. The exhibition featured paintings, prints, and sculpture by modern American...

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Jun30

Historic House Exhibition

Affinities

Jun 30, 2012 — Dec 2, 2012

Northeast Bedroom Gallery

Imagine looking at two different works of art hung next to each other in a gallery. The first is an eighteenth-century double portrait of a young mar...

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Oct13

Historic House Exhibition

Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey

Oct 13, 2012 — Jan 13, 2013

Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing Gallery

In April 1977, at New York’s Cordier & Ekstrom gallery, the American modernist Romare Bearden (1911–1988) installed twenty vibrant, richly com...

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Feature Stories

The Portrait: The Original Facebook

*See credit below post Two centuries separate these portraits of two young women, but seeing them side by side today generates many questions around the idea of the portrait and what it says about changing notions of American girlhood. What does each portrait tells us about the subjects’ world? Their personalities? The expectations each had […]

Feature Stories

Electronic Cataloging Project Entry #66

April 3, 2013 It would seem obvious that a prominent family such as the Reynolds would have various types of art and paintings hanging on their walls, but it is only recently during our current project that we are making connections to which pieces we still have that the family purchased. By conducting provenance research […]