Earth and Sky: The Photographs of Barbara Bosworth

Barbara Bosworth works like a naturalist, collecting specimens of flora and fauna, tracing the profiles of mountains and rivers, taking careful measure of the world with her lens. Rather than a simple accumulation of facts, however, her photographs describe a world far richer than the sum of its parts.

Meet Me at Midnight: An Art Game for Kids

"Meet Me at Midnight" is an interactive online adventure that takes place in an animated Smithsonian American Art Museum. Intended for children age 8 to 10 years, the site presents a perplexing scenario. An artwork, the dreaded Root Monster, comes alive and wreaks havoc in the galleries overnight. Visitors choose a friend, a character that has been separated from its artwork, to help aright the mixed-up museum and find its way back home.

Henry O. Tanner: A Mystical Painter

Henry O. Tanner, known for his religious paintings, overcame racism to become an internationally acclaimed artist during his lifetime. In Henry O. Tanner: A Mystical Painter, learn more about this incredible artist's life and see if you can identify his works in our interactive game!

George Catlin's Indian Gallery

During the 1830s, lawyer-turned-painter George Catlin visited fifty Indian tribes west of the Mississippi River. In his quest, Catlin recorded native individuals, Great Plains landscapes, and scenes of everyday Native American life. In George Catlin's Indian Gallery, view paintings that this remarkable adventurer toured around the United States and Europe.

"Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum"

"Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum" features five exhibitions from the museum's permanent collection. Explore these online shows by topic, such as African American Masters and Masters of Their Craft.

Treasures to Go

Treasures to Go is a series of eight exhibitions featuring the finest artworks in our collection. Explore these online shows by theme, such as American Impressionism, Lure of the West, Arte Latino, and Contemporary Folk Art.

Maloof on Maloof

Sam Maloof is America's most widely admired contemporary furniture craftsman. Maloof on Maloof pairs quotations from the artist with photographs of his work to illustrate Maloof's designer-craftsman philosophy.

Panoramas: The North American Landscape in Art

The Smithsonian American Art Museum, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, collaborated with museums from Canada and Mexico to create the first virtual art exhibition for the Web sponsored by the United States, Canadian, and Mexican governments.

This Web site, Panoramas: The North American Landscape in Art, celebrates the diverse landscapes of North America and compares the cultural, social, and art historical outlooks through the art of all three countries in English, French, and Spanish.

An Edward Hopper Scrapbook

As you browse through the pages of An Edward Hopper Scrapbook, you will see where he lived and worked, catch glimpses of his courtship and marriage to Jo Nivison, read letters to their friends, and follow his career from the first exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum to the major retrospectives late in his life. Created from a wealth of primary material, this virtual exhibition gives a rich and vital picture of the life and work of a monumental American artist.

Abbott Handerson Thayer

Abbott Handerson Thayer presents paintings, watercolors, drawings, and studies from this Gilded Age artist on the sesquicentennial of his birth. "Thayer's art combines Renaissance idealism with a modern concern for science," said Elizabeth Broun, director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. "He shows us how America in the Gilded Age was poised between a reverence for past traditions and a new empirical approach."

Eyeing America: The Prints of Robert Cottingham

Robert Cottingham, a painter and master printmaker, is best known for his vivid renderings of signs, storefronts, and marquees. Employing photographic images in his art-making process, Cottingham transforms mundane scenes into monumental urban images. Take a tour with Robert Cottingham to cities that served as inspiration for Eyeing America: The Prints of Robert Cottingham.

Posters American Style

American posters are often calls to action—demanding the attention of both the individual and the collective unconscious of the nation. Whatever the message, the poster reflects the explosion of ideas in the twentieth century, both intellectual and visual. Posters American Style covers the development of this means of expression from the last one hundred years.

Singular Impressions: The Monotype in America

Spontaneity and experimentation have always characterized the monotype. Singular Impressions will introduce you to this fascinating printmaking medium wherein a painted image is pressed to a sheet of paper to produce a single image.

The Renwick at Twenty-One

The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum recognized its twenty-fifth anniversary with The Renwick at Twenty-Five, a special exhibition of more than one hundred outstanding objects in all craft media. The selection of recent acquisitions, promised gifts, and rarely shown works in the permanent collection spans the development of American studio crafts made after World War II.