Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is part of the Smithsonian Institution. It holds one of the largest collections of art, from the American colonial period to the present. The museum has more than 7,000 artists represented in the collection. The museum’s main building is the old Patent Office Building which it shares with the National Portrait Gallery. Craft-focused exhibitions are shown in the Renwick Gallery.
A Tour of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
- “Skating in Central Park” by Agnes Tait
- “Buffalo Hunt on the Southwestern Prairies” by John Mix Stanley
- “Surrender of a Confederate Soldier” by Julian Scott
- “Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way” by Emanuel Leutze
- The Art and Historical Exhibits of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Name: The Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Formerly: The National Museum of American Art
- City: Washington, D.C.
- Country: United States
- Opened: 1829
- Type: Art museum, Design & Textile Museum, Heritage Museum
- Location: 8th & F Streets NW, Washington, D.C., United States
A Tour of Washington, D.C. Museums
- National Gallery of Art
- National Museum of American History
- National Air and Space Museum
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- National Museum of Natural History
- National Portrait Gallery
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- The Phillips Collection
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- International Spy Museum
- National Museum of Women in the Arts
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it;
the tree is the real thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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Photo Credit: JOM
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