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• Anacostia Museum, programs and exhibitions that emphasize the contributions of African Americans to the history and culture of our country.
• Arthur M. Sackler Gallery is devoted to exhibition, scholarship, education, and publication in the field of Asian art.
• Arts and Industries Building is the second-oldest Smithsonian building on the Mall.
• Cooper-Hewitt is America's National Design Museum.
• Freer Gallery of Art houses an internationally recognized collection of Asian art and the world's largest group of works by American artist James McNeill Whistler.
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is a collection of 19th- and 20th-century paintings and sculptures.
• National Air and Space Museum dramatizes the history of flight, space science, and space technology, and offers presentations both in the large screen Langley Theater and as well as in the Albert Einstein Planetarium.
• National Museum of African Art, devoted to the collection, study, and exhibition of African art.
• National Museum of American Art houses a collection of some 36,500 American paintings, sculpture, folk art, photographs, and graphic arts.
• National Museum of American History traces the American heritage through cultural, scientific, and technological exhibitions.
• National Museum of the American Indian is located in the historic Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House in New York City.
• National Museum of Natural History is one of the world's great centers for the study of earth history, human cultures, and the diversity of the natural world.
• National Portrait Gallery presents portraits of men and women who have made significant contributions to the historical and cultural development of the United States, including the leaders of our country, prominent politicians, sports heroes, artists, writers, and scientists.
• National Postal Museum traces the personal, commercial, political, and social impact of the postal service on American life and is the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind in the world.
• National Zoo is home to thousands of animals representing some 500 species, many in settings that offer insights into social behavior and ecology.
• Renwick Gallery features changing exhibitions of contemporary American crafts, as well as a selection of works, from 1900 to the present, from its permanent collection.
• Smithsonian Center for Earth and Planetary Studies and National Air and Space Museum contains links to servers with images of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collision with Jupiter and the Space Shuttle Repository and Regional Planetary Image Facility.
• Smithsonian Natural History Museum Web documents museum research and contains more than 120 million scientific specimens and cultural artifacts from around the world.

Women Artists: Works from the National Museum of Women in the Arts

by National Museum of Women in the ArtsU.S., Nancy G. Heller

Written by best-selling author and art historian Nancy Heller and featuring the most noteworthy artists and works of the country's preeminent women's art museum, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., Women Artists is the definitive volume on the history of women in art. Spanning over 500 years, from the Renaissance through the present, this beautifully designed volume features portraits, biographical backgrounds, and discussions of the work of eighty-six artists, exploring their art within the historical context in which it was created. End notes and a complete listing of the museum's 2,600 holdings are included as well, making this book the most dynamic and authoritative volume on women artists ever published.
About the Author Nancy Heller, a professor of humanities at the University of Arts in Philadelphia, is a highly regarded art historian with a specialty in women's art. The recipient of several awards and honors, she is the best-selling author of which sold over 50,000 copies and has been published in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. She lives in Philadelphia.

Portraits of the Presidents: The National Portrait Gallery

by Frederick S. Voss

The most visited gallery of the National Portrait Gallery is the Hall of Presidents, the collection of portraits of America's elected leaders. More than a visual record of holders of power, these images evoke the careers and legacies of the men they portray. An authoritative, engaging text by Frederick Voss illuminates the pictures, offering a concise history of each President and telling how each portrait came to be made. Included in this book are images of every American President, from Gilbert Stuart's famous depiction of George Washington, to Elaine de Kooning's John F. Kennedy and Norman Rockwell's Richard Nixon, and concluding with Chuck Close's photographic portrait of Bill Clinton.

About the Author Frederick S. Voss is the National Portrait Gallery's senior historian. His many books include Picturing Hemingway: A Writer in His Time.

Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

by Jonathan Yorba

This is a great source book of contemporary art productions which includes contemporary Latino artists. The selection of art represented is varied and the text gives readers sufficient background for understanding the works. Very colorful and clear photographs of the works are each full-page sized with a full page of text next to each to help capture the image and short biographies and artistic interpretations of the artists at the turn of each page.

Skilled Work: American Craft in the Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art

by Kenneth R. Trapp, Renwick Gallery, Howard Risatti

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The curator of Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery set out in 1972 to establish craft as a form equal to painting and sculpture to heighten public appreciation of objects made of metal, fiber, wood, clay and glass. "Skilled Work" celebrates the work of modern crafts, highlighting the works of renowned artists in 104 color plates. 20 duotone photos. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Contemporary Folk Art: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum Series)

by Tom Patterson

Paperback: 112 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.47 x 9.16 x 9.26

Modernism & Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

by Miranda McClintic

Paperback: 112 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.48 x 9.16 x 9.25