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Bask in the glow of our current West Building Rotunda display, designed by the Gallery’s horticulture team and captured by @kimsulaw. 🌿🌺 #myngadc #ngaflowers #winterflowers
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The Gallery is closed today, Wednesday, February 20, due to the weather. All programs are canceled. ❄️❄️ Ansel Adams, “Oak Tree, Snowstorm, Yosemite National Park, California,” 1948, gelatin silver print #nationalgalleryofart #anseladams #snowday #snowstorm
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Allen Tucker’s half-length portrait “Bizarre” (1928) has been observed as a “study in pattern and design.” What’s the first thing that catches your eye in this work? #americanart #allentucker #nationalgalleryofart
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We’re spending Presidents’ Day with “Washington (southwest section), D.C. Negro woman in her bedroom.” President Franklin Delano Roosevelt looms large in this photograph made by Gordon Parks in November 1942 (gelatin silver print, Corcoran Collection). Roosevelt supported many economic and anti-discrimination initiatives during his presidency that brought relief to African Americans, but he stopped short of insisting upon broad civil rights. At the time, Parks photographed workers and housing projects in Washington DC for the Office of War Information, a governmental agency that opened during World War II. Parks used his camera to document inequalities he witnessed, while encouraging viewers to contemplate the realities and promises of the United States.Don’t miss “Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950”—today’s the last day to catch the exhibition at the Gallery. #gordonparks #gordonparksnewtide #presidentsday
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A moment with Joan Mitchell’s “Salut Tom” (1979, Corcoran Collection), on view in the East Building. 📸: @dcheartspdx #myngadc #joanmitchell #artwatchers
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Only a few days left to catch “Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940-1950.” The exhibition explores the formative first decade of the photographer’s career. 📸🎞 Photographer @dtodd recently finished a family photo shoot in the exhibition, choosing to style one of his last photos in the manner of Parks’s “Husband and Wife on Sunday Morning, Detroit, Michigan, 1950.” See the exhibition through Monday, February 18, and tag any of your images to #GordonParks. 📸🎞 #myngadc #gordonparksnewtide #gordonparksfoundation #photography
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Elizabeth Catlett consistently broke barriers over the course of her prolific career as an artist, teacher, and activist. She was the first African-American woman to receive a master of fine arts degree from the University of Iowa, in 1940. Barred from living in the dorms because of her race, Catlett roomed off-campus with Margaret Walker, who became an accomplished poet and writer. Walker’s 1942 poem “For My People” invokes playmates who play “in the clay and dust and sand of Alabama backyards” and later grow up to experience discrimination and loss. In Catlett’s 1992 print “Playmates,” she shows two children mid-play, in what might be any backyard. A red ball hovers between the children, as if to pause time and preserve their childhood just a little longer. #elizabethcatlett #blackhistorymonth #printmaking
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Love is in the air at the Gallery! What work of art has you weak at the knees? ❤️💌❤️ Stopping by the Gallery today? Pick up a heart from our Art Information Desks in the East and West Buildings and place it in front of your art crush. Tag any photos with #myngadc and #heartsforart. ❤️💌❤️ #valentinesday Jim Dine, "Two Dutch Hearts," 1970, lithograph in 6 colors with collage on handmade paper
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Happy birthday to Grant Wood, born on this day in 1891. The artist painted “New Road” in 1939. This work is an idealized view of the rolling hills dotted with trees, farm buildings, windmills, and grazing animals characteristic of the rural Iowa landscape. 🌳🍃 #grantwood #hbd #americanart
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Trained as an architect early in his career, John Marin was adept at rendering urban cityscapes such as New York. But in 1920 the artist bought a seven-room house in Cliffside Park, a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey. He turned his expert eye to the suburban architecture around him, painting views of his residential neighborhood. “Buildings with Snowbank, Cliffside, New Jersey” (1928) depicts the snow-covered garage behind Marin’s house and parts of other adjacent properties. How do you think the artist felt about this place? 🏘❄️ #johnmarin #nationalgalleryofart #snowyday
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A little ✨ on a dreary day. Leo Villareal’s “Multiverse” captured by @dorakathryn. #myngadc #thosengalights
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Joshua Johnson is America’s earliest-known professional African American painter. Few details of his life are recorded. The son of an enslaved black woman and a white man, Johnson was born into slavery around 1763. A Baltimore County record from 1782 lists Johnson as an apprentice to a local blacksmith and states that he was to be freed within two years. In 1798 and 1802, Johnson advertised his painting practice in local newspapers, describing himself as a “self-taught genius.” Beginning in the late 1700s, Johnson began to receive portrait commissions from prominent Baltimore-area families, like the McCurdys. This work, "Grace Allison McCurdy and Her Daughters," (c. 1806) is one of 6 paintings by Johnson in the Gallery’s collection. While Johnson’s subjects were largely white, there are two known portraits of African American subjects. #blackhistorymonth #joshuajohnson #americanart
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