The Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture were created by the Smithsonian American Art Museum to assist researchers in locating American paintings and sculptures for comparative study.

The Smithsonian Institution quietly removed the director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum this summer and placed her in another role, following years of complaints from staff about her ...

Photograph Study Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum Diana (front view) sculpture / (photographer unknown) Smithsonian Libraries Welcome the caribou man / Tsonakwa and Yolaikia Photograph ...

Dalila Scruggs joins Smithsonian American Art Museum as the museum's first-ever Augusta Savage curator of African American art. Scruggs has a background in both educational and curatorial roles ...

(October 18, 2025, through August 30, 2026) “Grandma Moses: A Good Day’s Work” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum She didn’t begin painting in earnest until the age of 78. But when she ...

The Smithsonian Institution is closing its diversity office and freezing all federal hiring. The decision will affect dozens ...

Moreover, the National Portrait Gallery only takes up half of the building and shares the space with the Smithsonian American Art Museum. This museum showcases rotating exhibits, which have ...

A joint purchase by the Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, this five-screen video installation uses period reenactments to create a portrait of the activist, writer ...

The Smithsonian Institution is closing its Office of Diversity, freezing federal hiring and ordering employees back to in-office work, according to an email sent by Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III.

“Pictures of Belonging” traces the careers of three female artists who flourished despite the U.S. government’s imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II. By Aruna D’Souza One ...

Taylor The work, now on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, tells the story of two characters on the island—the last people alive in the world ...