Variations on America: Masterworks from American Art Forum Collections
Georgia O'Keeffe, Red Lines, 1923, oil on canvas, Private Collection, Washington D.C., © 2007 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
“Variations on America: Masterworks from American Art Forum Collections” celebrates the vision and passion of private collectors who are formally affiliated with the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Description
The exhibition presents 72 major artworks, several of which are rarely on public display, from 26 distinguished private collections by some of America's most talented and cherished artists, including John Singer Sargent, Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe. Chief curator Eleanor Harvey and deputy chief curator George Gurney are the curators of the exhibition.
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"Variations on America" is organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
"Variations on America" is organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Artists
Realist painter who studied with Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller at the New York School of Art.
Painter. Sargent traveled in a circle of socially prominent people and is known for his loosely painted portraits done in a style reminiscent of Edgar Degas and James Abbott McNeill Whistler.