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Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of the nation’s premier American art museums, located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in the historic 1917 estate of Katharine Smith Reynolds and her husband, Richard Joshua Reynolds, founder of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Reynolda House and adjacent Reynolda Gardens and Reynolda Village feature a spectacular public garden, dining, shopping and walking trails.

Reynolda House will host "Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum" just two weeks following Museum Day (opening October 7, 2011). Visitors are encouraged to return to see these national treasures of modern and abstract art. Reynolda House is the exhibition's final venue, and the exhibition marks the first show of work from the Smithsonian American Museum in North Carolina in nearly ten years.

Exhibits

View the Southeast's finest collection of American art including works by Frederic Church, Thomas Cole, Stuart Davis, and more in the welcoming interior of the restored country estate. The museum features period furnishings, vintage clothing and family memorabilia.

On view during Museum Day:
"Figuring Abstraction," exploring the relationship between abstract painting and the human form. Features work by Lee Krasner, Roy Lichtenstein, and others.

"Wonder and Enlightenment: Artist-Naturalists in the Early American South," focused on the exploration of artists and naturalists, featuring plates from John James Audubon's Birds of America.

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