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Detail of poster with grayscale image of storefront and blurry figures

New Collections: Art in General Records

Grayscale photograph of smiling woman dressed in a black top and pants with her right hand resting on her hip and her right hand next to her neck standing in front of an abstract painting on an easel.

New Collections: Nela Arias-Misson Papers

Stock books with marbled covers and leather bindings in various color fanned out.

Conserved H. Wunderlich & Company Stock Books Return to Their Former Splendor

Photograph of Dorothy Liebes in her studio with staff, circa 1950s. Dorothy Liebes papers, circa 1850-1973. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

The Dorothy Liebes Papers Shine in a Dark Pandemic Year

Ruth Asawa, Untitled (S.557, Wall-Mounted Tied Wire, Closed Center Twelve-Petaled Form Based on Nature), bronze wire, 38 x 38 x 12 in. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2011.39.

Conversations Across Collections: Ruth Asawa at the Ankrum Gallery, 1962

Julia Santos Solomon inserting crosses for her In Memoriam installation, Christ Lutheran Church, Woodstock, NY, 2020. Photo by Scott Barfield.

New Collections: Pandemic Oral History Project

Jessica Esch, Totally, November 2020, 6 1/4

Treasure Trove: Archives as Inspiration

Fiber artist Barbara Lee Smith in her studio. Photo: Sam Selby

A Friendship Forged in the Archives

The Center for Idea Art. Flyer for Image Wars: an Exhibition of Oppositional Art, 15 May – 18 June 1984. Juan Sánchez papers, 1972-2010. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Conversations Across Collections: Considering Art and Activism with Juan Sánchez

Photograph of Toshiko Takaezu posing with work (detail), September 2004. Toshiko Takaezu papers, 1937-2010. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

New Collections: Toshiko Takaezu Papers

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