Exhibitions
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A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy LiebesJuly 7, 2023 – February 4, 2024Cooper Hewitt
This exhibition explores the full scope of Dorothy Liebes' contributions as a designer, collaborator, mentor, public figure, and tireless promoter of American modernism.
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Shelley Niro: 500 Year ItchMay 27, 2023 – January 1, 2024American Indian Museum New York
Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch celebrates more than a half century of Shelley Niro’s paintings, photographs, mixed-media works, and films.
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Sophia Crownfield: Drawn from NatureFebruary 4, 2022 – July 31, 2022Cooper Hewitt
From the 1890s to the 1920s, Sophia Crownfield designed prints for some of the most prominent silk and wallpaper manufacturers in the United States.
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Suzie Zuzek for Lilly Pulitzer: The Prints that Made the Fashion BrandJune 10, 2021 – January 2, 2022Cooper Hewitt
The exhibition features more than 35 original watercolor and gouache design drawings by Zuzek to reveal Zuzek’s artistic contribution to the iconic Pulitzer style.
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Hewitt Sisters CollectDecember 12, 2014 – October 29, 2017Cooper Hewitt
The remarkable story of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt, who in 1897 established a museum within Cooper Union.
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Annie PootoogookJune 13, 2009 – October 10, 2010American Indian Museum New York
Visit 39 works that chronicle the social, economic, and cultural realities of Inuit life in the Canadian North by Annie Pootoogook (Inuit, b. 1969).
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Pretty Women: Freer and the Ideal of Feminine BeautyAugust 13, 2005 – September 17, 2006Freer Gallery of Art
See the major works that Freer acquired during his first 12 years as a collector— images of beautiful women by James McNeill Whistler, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, and Abbott Handerson Thayer.
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2nd Annual Exhibition of Visual Arts and Crafts by Smithsonian WomenMarch 4, 1996 – March 29, 1996S. Dillon Ripley Center
Reflect on and celebrate the creative lives of women artists within the Smithsonian Institution community, in conjunction with Women's History Month. See 64 works including photography, painting, ceramics, textiles, jewelry, and mixed media.
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Elaine Lustig Cohen: Modern Graphic DesignerFebruary 7, 1995 – May 23, 1995Cooper Hewitt
Visit books, stationery, signage, and other works that reveal Cohen's importance in the evolution of design.
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