Exhibition Press Kits
Past Exhibition Press Kits
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2006
Grant Wood's Studio: Birthplace of "American Gothic" (at the Renwick Gallery)
Passing Time: The Art of William Christenberry
American ABC: Childhood in 19th-Century America
William H. Johnson's World on Paper
Temple of Invention: History of a National Landmark
Ruth Duckworth, Modernist Sculptor (at the Renwick Gallery)
An Impressionist Sensibility: The Halff Collection
Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination
2007
Eadweard Muybridge: The Central American Journey
From the Ground Up: Renwick Craft Invitational 2007 (at the Renwick Gallery)
Variations on America: Masterworks from American Art Forum Collections
Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape
Going West! Quilts and Community (at the Renwick Gallery)
Over the Top: American Posters from World War I
John Alexander: A Retrospective
2008
Color as Field: American Painting, 1950–1975
Celebrating the Lucelia Artist Award, 2001–2006
The Honor of Your Company Is Requested: President Lincoln’s Inaugural Ball
Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection (at the Renwick Gallery)
Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist
Earth and Sky: Photographs by Barbara Bosworth
Local Color: Washington Painting at Midcentury
Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities
Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Glass (at the Renwick Gallery)
Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke
Graphic Masters I: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
2009
George Catlin's Indian Gallery (at the Renwick Gallery)
The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene (at the Renwick Gallery)
Grand Salon Installation (at the Renwick Gallery)
Staged Stories: Renwick Craft Invitational 2009 (at the Renwick Gallery)
Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
What's It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect
2010
Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan
Graphic Masters III: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Remembering the Running Fence
Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg
The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946 (at the Renwick Gallery)
A Revolution in Wood: The Bresler Collection (at the Renwick Gallery)
Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow
Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image
2011
Close to Home: Photographers and Their Families
History in the Making: Renwick Craft Invitational 2011 (at the Renwick Gallery)
To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America
The Great American Hall of Wonders
Made in Chicago: The Koffler Collection
Something of Splendor: Decorative Arts from the White House (at the Renwick Gallery)
Inventing a Better Mousetrap: Patent Models from the Rothschild Collection
2012
Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image
African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era and Beyond
40 under 40: Craft Futures (at the Renwick Gallery)
The Civil War and American Art
Nam June Paik: Global Visionary
2013
Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color (at the Renwick Gallery)
George Catlin's American Buffalo (Tour Only)
A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Landscapes In Passing: Photographs by Steve Fitch, Robbert Flick and Elaine Mayes
A Measure of the Earth: The Cole-Ware Collection of American Baskets (at the Renwick Gallery)
Infinite Place: The Ceramic Art of Wayne Higby (at the Renwick Gallery)
Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art
2014
Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget
Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection
Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image
Untitled: The Art of James Castle
The Singing and the Silence: Birds in Contemporary Art
2015
Mingering Mike’s Supersonic Greatest Hits
Special Installation of 19 American Masterworks from the Thelma and Melvin Lenkin Collection
The Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Watch This! Revelations in Media Art
Measured Perfection: Hiram Powers' Greek Slave
The Modern Pueblo Painting of Awa Tsireh
Crosscurrents: Modern Art from the Sam Rose and Julie Walters Collection
Renwick Renovation and Reopening
2016
Martin Puryear: Multiple Dimensions
Visions and Revisions: Renwick Invitational 2016
Artworks by African Americans in the Permanent Collection
Harlem Heroes: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten
2017
Down These Mean Streets: Community and Place in Urban Photography
Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years
June Schwarcz: Invention and Variation
Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings
Past Exhibition Press Kits
March 10, 2006–July 16, 2006
Grant Wood's Studio: Birthplace of "American Gothic" (at the Renwick Gallery)
July 1, 2006–July 8, 2007
Passing Time: The Art of William Christenberry
July 1, 2006–Sept. 24, 2006
William Wegman–Funney/Strange
July 1, 2006–Sept. 17, 2006
American ABC: Childhood in 19th-Century America
July 1, 2006–Jan. 7, 2007
William H. Johnson's World on Paper
July 1, 2006–Jan. 21, 2008
Temple of Invention: History of a National Landmark
Sept. 1, 2006–Jan. 15, 2007
Ruth Duckworth, Modernist Sculptor(at the Renwick Gallery)
Nov. 3, 2006–Feb. 4, 2007
An Impressionist Sensibility: The Halff Collection
Nov. 17, 2006–Feb. 19, 2007
Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination
Feb. 2, 2007–April 29, 2007
Eadweard Muybridge: The Central American Journey
April 6, 2007–June 24, 2007
Saul Steinberg: Illuminations
March 9, 2007–July 22, 2007
From the Ground Up: Renwick Craft Invitational 2007 (at the Renwick Gallery)
April 13, 2007–July 29, 2007
Variations on America: Masterworks from American Art Forum Collections
May 18, 2007–Oct. 8, 2007
The Prints of Sean Scully
Aug. 10, 2007–Nov. 4, 2007
Earl Cunningham's America
Sept. 14, 2007–Jan. 6, 2008
Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape
Oct. 5, 2007–Jan. 21, 2008
Going West! Quilts and Community (at the Renwick Gallery)
Oct. 26, 2007–Feb. 3, 2008
Over the Top: American Posters from World War I
Dec. 21, 2007–March 16, 2008
John Alexander: A Retrospective
Feb. 29, 2008–May 26, 2008
Color as Field: American Painting, 1950–1975
Feb. 22, 2008–June 1, 2008
Obata's Yosemite
Sept. 21, 2007–June 22, 2008
Celebrating the Lucelia Artist Award, 2001–2006
March 8, 2008–Jan. 18, 2010
The Honor of Your Company Is Requested: President Lincoln's Inaugural Ball
March 14, 2008–July 6, 2008
Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection (at the Renwick Gallery)
May 9, 2008–August 3, 2008
Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist
Douglas Chronology (PDF 32K)
June 20, 2008–Nov. 11, 2008
Earth and Sky: Photographs by Barbara Bosworth
July 4, 2008–Oct. 13, 2008
Local Color: Washington Painting at Midcentury
Sept. 26, 2008–Jan. 4, 2009
Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities
Oct. 3, 2008–Jan. 11, 2009
Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Glass (at the Renwick Gallery)
Dec. 5, 2008–March 3, 2009
Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke
Nov. 27, 2008–May 25, 2009
Graphic Masters I: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Nov. 24, 2005–April 26, 2009
George Catlin's Indian Gallery (at the Renwick Gallery)
Feb. 27, 2009–Jan. 3, 2010
1934: A New Deal for Artists
March 13, 2009–June 7, 2009
The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene (at the Renwick Gallery)
May 1, 2009–July 26, 2009
Jean Shin: Common Threads
June 6, 2009–Nov. 11, 2013
Grand Salon Installation (at the Renwick Gallery)
June 19, 2009–Jan. 10, 2010
Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Aug. 7, 2009–Jan. 3, 2010
Staged Stories: Renwick Craft Invitational 2009 (at the Renwick Gallery)
Oct. 2, 2009–Jan. 24, 2010
What's It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect
Feb. 12, 2010–May 9, 2010
Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan
Jan. 15, 2010–Aug. 8, 2010
Graphic Masters III: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum"
April 2, 2010–Sept. 26, 2010
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Remembering the "Running Fence"
July 2, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011
Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg
Aug. 27, 2010–Jan. 17, 2011
John Gossage: The Pond
March 5, 2010–Jan. 30, 2011
The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946 (at the Renwick Gallery)
Sept. 24, 2010–Jan. 30, 2011
A Revolution in Wood: The Bresler Collection (at the Renwick Gallery)
Nov. 19, 2010–May 8, 2011
Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow
Dec. 10, 2010–March 2, 2012
Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image
Feb. 4, 2011–July 24, 2011
Close to Home: Photographers and Their Families
March 25, 2011–July 31, 2011
History in the Making: Renwick Craft Invitational 2011 (at the Renwick Gallery)
March 11, 2011–Sept. 5, 2011
To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America
July 15, 2011–Jan. 8, 2012
The Great American Hall of Wonders
Aug. 12, 2011–Jan. 2, 2012
Made in Chicago: The Koffler Collection
Oct. 1, 2011–May 6, 2012
Something of Splendor: Decorative Arts from the White House (at the Renwick Gallery)
Nov. 11, 2011–March 11, 2012
Multiplicity
Nov. 11, 2011–Nov. 4, 2013
Inventing a Better Mousetrap: Patent Models from the Rothschild Collection
Jan. 20, 2012–May 20, 2012
Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage
March 16, 2012–Sept. 30, 2012
The Art of Video Games
Listen to The Art of Video Games Anthem by 8 Bit Weapon
March 16, 2012–April 14, 2013
Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image
April 27, 2012–Sept. 3, 2012
African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era and Beyond
June 15, 2012–Jan. 6, 2013
Abstract Drawings
July 20, 2012–Feb. 3, 2013
40 under 40: Craft Futures (at the Renwick Gallery)
Nov. 16, 2012–April 28, 2013
The Civil War and American Art
Dec. 13, 2012–Aug. 11, 2013
Nam June Paik: Global Visionary
Feb. 1, 2013–July 7, 2013
Pictures in the Parlor
April 12, 2013–July 28, 2013
Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color (at the Renwick Gallery)
May 10, 2013–Aug, 30, 2015: U.S. Tour Only
George Catlin's American Buffalo
June 28, 2013–Jan. 5, 2014
A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
July 26, 2013–Feb. 23, 2014
Landscapes In Passing: Photographs by Steve Fitch, Robbert Flick, and Elaine Mayes
Oct. 4, 2013–Dec. 8, 2013
A Measure of the Earth: The Cole-Ware Collection of American Baskets (at the Renwick Gallery)
Oct. 4, 2013–Dec. 8, 2013
Infinite Place: The Ceramic Art of Wayne Higby (at the Renwick Gallery)
Oct. 25, 2013–March 2, 2014
Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art
- Exhibition Press Release
- Exhibition Press Release en español
- Exhibition Checklist
- Bilingual Website
- Exhibition Wall Text
- Exhibition Wall Text en español
- Exhibition Video Trailer
- Curator Commentaries
- Audio Podcast Series
May 2, 2014–Aug. 3, 2014
Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget
- Exhibition Press Release
- Exhibition Checklist
- Exhibition Wall Text
- Exhibition Essay by Leslie Umberger
- Exhibition Essay by Ron Carver
Feb. 28, 2014–Aug. 17, 2014
Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection
March 21, 2014–Aug. 31, 2014
Pop Art Prints
Open May 1, 2013–Feb. 15, 2015
Watch This! New Directions in the Art of the Moving Image
Sept. 26, 2014–Feb. 1, 2015
Untitled: The Art of James Castle
Oct. 10, 2014–Feb. 8, 2015
Richard Estes’ Realism
Oct. 31, 2014–Feb. 22, 2015
The Singing and the Silence: Birds in Contemporary Art
Feb. 27, 2015–Aug. 2, 2015
Mingering Mike’s Supersonic Greatest Hits
April 17, 2015–Aug. 16, 2015
Special Installation of 19 American Masterworks from the Thelma and Melvin Lenkin Collection
April 3, 2015–Aug. 30, 2015
The Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi
April 24, 2015–Sept. 7, 2015
Watch This! Revelations in Media Art
July 3, 2015–July 9, 2017
Measured Perfection: Hiram Powers' Greek Slave
Sept. 4, 2015–Jan. 31, 2016
The Modern Pueblo Painting of Awa Tsireh
Oct. 23, 2015–March 20, 2016
Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty
Oct. 30, 2015–April 10, 2016
Crosscurrents: Modern Art from the Sam Rose and Julie Walters Collection
Nov. 13, 2015–July 10, 2016
WONDER (at the Renwick)
Nov. 13, 2016
Renwick Renovation and Reopening
Feb. 26, 2016–July 31, 2016
No Mountains in the Way: Photographs from the Kansas Documentary Survey, 1974
May 27, 2016–Sept. 5, 2016
Martin Puryear: Multiple Dimensions
June 17, 2016–Oct. 2, 2016
The Art of Romaine Brooks
Sept. 9, 2016–Jan. 16, 2017 (now extended)
Visions and Revisions: Renwick Invitational 2016
Sept. 1, 2016–Feb. 28, 2017
Artworks by African Americans In the Permanent Collection
Nov. 11, 2016–March 19, 2017
Isamu Noguchi, Archaic/Modern
Aug. 26, 2016–April 2, 2017 (extended)
Harlem Heroes: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten
Nov. 18, 2016–April 2, 2017
Gene Davis: Hot Beat
May 12, 2017–Aug. 6, 2017
Down These Mean Streets: Community and Place in Urban Photography
April 7, 2017–Aug. 20, 2017
Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years
March 10, 2017–Aug. 27, 2017
June Schwarcz: Invention and Variation
May 26, 2017–Sept. 4, 2017
Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings
