Thanks to everyone who visited our exhibition 'Whistler's Woman in White'🤍
It's been a joy to explore the love story of painter James McNeill Whistler and his flame-haired muse, Joanna Hiffernan – from pocket-sized sketches of her at a Wapping pub to holidays with Courbet.
Known for examining violent colonial histories, Mattai draws parallels between the treatment of immigrants and those who are mentally ill in her latest bodies of work. https://t.co/zXi07zcdsz
Vallotton painted this work in 1922 near Honfleur in Normandy where he regularly spent the summer. In the last period of his creative life (he died in 1925) he dispensed with the depiction on individual detail in his landscapes; concentrating on rhythm, colour and form.
Meet the Museum brings to life the abandon and merriment of a Jerome Myers artwork. May Days are just around the corner and we have spots open in the afternoon!
Beginning 5/1, this program is open to artists ages 2-4 and their adult companions.
🎟️ https://t.co/2UetrXGtVX
Happy birthday to Robert Delaunay, who was born #OnThisDay in 1885!
For Delaunay, the Eiffel Tower was a subject that allowed him to indulge his preference for a sense of vast space, atmosphere, and light, while evoking a sign of modernity and progress.
📝 ‘I missed you the first few days, and it was strange for me not to find you when I came home in the afternoon’, wrote Vincent to his brother Theo in 1872.
Who are you missing at the moment? 🌻Vincent van Gogh, Houses Seen from the Back (1885-1886) #vangoghmuseum
“Art makes you happy even when I’m having a bad day...I have now discovered I am an artist and I can’t wait to keep learning about artists and growing as an artist and continuing to create art." — Sydney Buford
Radha's resilience in the face of obstacles is the focus of today's art-focused #Meditation, 12 pm ET: https://t.co/iWtY2k44qh In this #Watercolor, Radha represents an "abhisarika", a woman who fearlessly braves the dangers of the night to meet her lover. https://t.co/kEF5kDJL6t
Creation Story by Maidu/Native Hawaiian artist Harry Fonseca, an 18-foot-wide painting on view at our museum in Washington, D.C., celebrates the act of creation itself and the enormous, complex, and magical world that resulted. #BofAMasterpieceMoment
https://t.co/LWZAqYbHE8
Get to know the Glowing Puffleg! It’s a species of hummingbird that can be found in parts of Colombia, Venezuela, & Ecuador. Its name refers to its iridescent color & the cloud-like plumage on its legs. It zips around forest habitats foraging for nectar & the occasional insect.☁️
How are you protecting yourself from the summer Sun? The waxy monkey tree frog protects itself from drying out by secreting a waxy substance. Flexible hind-legs help it to spread the self-made “sunscreen” on its back, ensuring its whole body is coated with a protective layer.🐸☀️
Now on tour! "Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea," a collaboration among @americanart and four partner museums, offers counterviews of “the West” through the eyes of modern and contemporary artists. https://t.co/n9s2Axw09G
On view now through September 12th in our #Phillips100 Centennial Show "Seeing Differently: The Phillips Collects for a New Century": Arthur G. Dove, Sun Drawing Water, 1933.
In “Peggy,” Alice Neel twists the act of portraiture, often an ego-induced exchange of caresses, into a kind of forensic evidence. https://t.co/YW5r2HUJk9
That feeling when #ThrowbackThursday and our 45th birthday align. 🙌
This photo of our Milestones of Flight Hall was taken on the day we opened, July 1, 1976. We'd love to hear your memories or see your photos of the Museum through the years. 📸