Monday, November 2, 2020 – ENJOY MORE ART FROM THE SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM

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Monday,  November 2, 2020

Our 198th Edition

SAILING SHIPS 

&

BOATS

Betty Parsons, Sailboat, Rockport, 1943-1982, gouache and pencil on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Sandra B.D. Waters, 1984.120

William Zorach, Sailboat, woodcut on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1967.19.2

Frank McClure, Sailboat, ink, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Frank McClure, 1979.98.341

Werner Drewes, Sailboats, 1931, woodcut, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 1969.3.12

Marjorie Raiguel, Sailboat Basin, ca. 1940, watercolor and pencil on paper mounted on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the General Services Administration, 1974.28.249

William H. Johnson, Sailboats on the Water, ca. 1932-1937, tempera on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation, 1967.59.68

Maurice Prendergast, Inlet with Sailboat, Maine, ca. 1913-1915, watercolor and pencil on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Robert Brady, 1981.171A

Allen E. Philbrick, Fishing Boats, n.d., etching, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chicago Society of Etchers, 1935.13.249

Blanche Lazzell, The Seine Boat, 1927/printed 1933, color woodcut on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1982.75

Donald MacDonald, Docking Ferry Boat, ca. 1938, stencil cut and lacquer airbrush, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from D.C. Public Library, 1967.72.224

William H. Johnson, Boats, ca. 1933-1935, tempera with pencil on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation, 1967.59.803

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EDITORIAL

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JUDY BERDY

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