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Calendar with verses by William Adams Delano and illustrations by Tina Safranski, 1945. Arthur Sinclair Covey papers, 1882-1960. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

The Architect Who Was a Poet and He Knowed It

Elizabeth Botten | April 18, 2018
Lonnie Holley with artwork, ca. 1995 / unidentified photographer.Jimmy Hedges papers and Rising Fawn Folk Art Gallery records, 1969-2015, bulk 1991-2013. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

Lonnie Holley and the Geologies of Alabama

Rachel White | March 23, 2018
Photograph of Loren Madsen with sculpture Inverted Pyramid, Floating at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1979 / unidentified photographer. Loren Madsen papers, 1969-2017. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Acquisitions: Loren Madsen Papers

Matthew Simms | March 13, 2018
Betty Parsons standing in the doorway of her gallery, 196-? / unidentified photographer. Betty Parsons Gallery records and personal papers, circa 1920-1991, bulk 1946-1983. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

How Betty Parsons Became an American Tastemaker

Barbara Aikens | March 5, 2018
Bal Noir de Paris, between 1925 and 1970. Palmer C. Hayden papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Artists of the Harlem Renaissance

Erin Kinhart | February 27, 2018
Alma Thomas, ca. 1958 / unidentified photographer. Alma Thomas papers, 1894-2000, bulk 1936-1982. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

How Painter Alma Thomas Brought African American History to D.C. Public Schools

Kelly Quinn | February 21, 2018
Eero Saarinen letter to Aline B. Saarinen, 1953. Aline and Eero Saarinen papers, 1906-1977. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Love Letters to Michigan

Elizabeth Botten | February 13, 2018
Buy war bonds, 194-, Charles Green Shaw, artist. Charles Green Shaw papers, 1874-1979, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Valentine's Shmalentine's

Bettina Smith | February 9, 2018
Mel Henderson, San Francisco, California postcard to Eleanor Dickinson, San Francisco, California, Not after 5 December 1976. Eleanor Dickinson papers, 1951-2003. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Udder Madness: One Artist's Adventure with 4,000 Cows

Elizabeth Botten | January 23, 2018
Gene Davis' studio, summer 1971, detail from contact sheet with images of Andrew Hudson, Bill Christenberry, and Gene Davis, 1979 / Mary Swift, photographer. Mary Swift papers, circa 1970-2005. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Acquisitions: Mary Swift Papers

Mary Savig | January 19, 2018
Abbott Thayer in his sleeping hut with his dog Hauskuld, circa 1903 / unidentified photographer. Nelson and Henry C. White research material, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Why Abbott Thayer and His Family Slept Outside During a Polar Vortex

Erin Kinhart & Jayna Josefson | January 2, 2018
Temple of Man promotional postcard featuring Robert Alexander, 1970s. Robert Alexander papers and Temple of Man records, 1956-1992. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Acquisitions: Robert Alexander Papers and Temple of Man Records

Annette Leddy | December 28, 2017
In 1988, artist Laura Farabough exhibited Santa Dog, a site–specific video installation at the Hanson Gallery in Sausalito, California. That same year, Farabough featured “Santa Dog” on her holiday card to artist David Ireland. Laura Farabough christmas card to David Ireland, 1988. David Ireland papers, circa 1910s-circa 2009, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Dog Days of December

Mary Savig | December 14, 2017
Exhibition announcement for The Chicano Codices, 1993. Kathy Vargas papers, 1980-2015. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Exhibition catalog for (en)Gendered Visions: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Art, 1992. Kathy Vargas papers, 1980-2015. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Naming Ourselves: Asian American and Latina/o Arts Meet in the Kathy Vargas Papers

Kimberly Yu | December 5, 2017
Romare Bearden in Harlem, circa 1950 / unidentified photographer. Romare Bearden papers, 1937-1982. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Romare Bearden and His Traveling Cats

Rihoko Ueno | December 5, 2017
Musicorner room designed by John Vassos displayed at the American at Home Pavilion, 1940 New York World's Fair, 1940 / Richard Averill Smith, photographer. John Vassos papers, 1920-[198-]. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

New Technologies: John Vassos and Television Design

Danielle Shapiro | December 5, 2017
Sketchbook with portrait of Walt Whitman, 1977. Naul Ojeda papers, 1964-2002. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Acquisitions: Naul Ojeda Papers

Josh T. Franco | December 5, 2017
San Francisco Museum of Art program for the first artists' soap box derby, 1975 May 18. Jan Butterfield papers, 1950-1997; Official magazine of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art artists' soap box derby, 1978 May 21. Jan Butterfield papers, 1950-1997

Supercharged with Wit, Magic, and Talent: The Artists’ Soap Box Derbies

Elizabeth Botten | December 5, 2017
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