Exhibitions
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Directions: Cindy Sherman: Film StillsMarch 15, 1995 – June 25, 1995Hirshhorn
View 69 black-and-white photographs made between 1977 and 1980 that suggest stills from Grade-B, Hitchcock-esque, noir films.
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With Pen and Graver: Women Graphic Artists Before 1900February 24, 1995 – January 28, 1996American History Museum
The changing role of women in the 19th and early 20th century is examined through prints, photographs of women printmakers, copperplates, books, and tools.
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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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North American Wildflowers: Watercolors by Mary Vaux WalcottApril 15, 1994 – August 29, 1994American Art Museum
Admire 50 original watercolors from North American Wildflowers published in 1925 by the Smithsonian Institution, that represent a fraction of the over 700 watercolors Walcott created.
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Brushes with the Literary: Portraits by Washington Artist Marcella Comes WinslowAugust 13, 1993 – December 5, 1993Portrait Gallery
Portraits of famous writers give an insider's view of life in the nation's capital in the 1940s-50s when Marcella Comes Winslow's Georgetown home was an informal literary salon.
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American Women of the Etching RevivalMarch 15, 1989 – May 31, 1989American History Museum
This exhibition commemorates the 100th anniversary of the first comprehensive exhibit of works by American women. The show includes approximately 70 etchings by such artists as Mary Cassatt, Ellen Day Hale, Martha Scudder Twachtman, and Gabrielle Clements.
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Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: Artist and Patron (1875-1942)July 8, 1983 – November 27, 1983Portrait Gallery
See a small exhibition that includes photographs, papers, letters and personal notebooks documenting the art patron's support of American artists— support which culminated in the creation of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Women and Rookwood PotteryAugust 1, 1974 – August 31, 1974American History Museum
Founded in 1880 by Maria Longworth Nichols in Cincinnati, the company developed various types of art pottery which influenced the art pottery movement of the late 19th century.
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Lilly Martin Spencer (1822-1902): The Joys of SentimentJune 15, 1973 – September 3, 1973American Art Museum
See the first exhibition of the works of one of America's formost 19th century woman artists, including some 30 paintings, 28 drawings and 10 prints, all of pretty, sentimental and anecdotal subjects.
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