Wednesday, January 27, 2021 – So cute and angelic…………………….

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2021

THE 272nd  EDITION

FROM OUR ARCHIVES

KIDS, KIDS, KIDS!

William H. Johnson, Children’s Dance, ca. 1940-1941, oil on plywood, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation, 1967.59.580

Politicians have always ended up on the shelf. Maybe a safe place for them.

Unidentified (Mexican), (Children Swimming), n.d., woodcut on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Olin Dows, 1983.90.187

Jean-Francis Auburtin, Children at Play, 1915, pencil and watercolor, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Republic of France, 1915.11.3

Unidentified, The Mabie Children, ca. 1852, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Sturm, 1963.12.11

Elizabeth Olds, Silkscreen for Children, 1955, color woodcut on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1984.31.45

William H. Johnson, Children Playing at Dockside, ca. 1939-1942, tempera and pen and ink with pencil on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation, 1967.59.1066

Eddie Arning, Mother Feeding Children, 1973, oil pastel on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Sackton, 1987.51.15

Patsy Billups, Three Children, A Car and A Church, 1976, colored pencil and pen on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 1997.124.106

Lloyd McNeill, Lou Stovall, Feed Kids, 1969, screenprint, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1970.29

Viola Frey, Self Portrait with Toys, 1981, alkyd oil on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Bernard Koteen Revocable Trust, 2013.85.2

• Zelermy, Memory Vessel with Doll Parts, n.d., sewer pipe clay? overlaid with applied brown compound, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr., 1998.84.67
• The folk art tradition of ​“memory vessels” grew out of grave-marking or commemorative rituals found in several cultures. Objects embedded in the surface of the piece often provide clues to the person who owned or used the items. With its doll parts and clocks, this vessel may have been created to commemorate a child, suggesting a too-short life. These special items may have been from the maker’s childhood, and were gathered here as a keepsake.

WEDNESDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY

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TUESDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY

63 rd and Lexington Avenue subway station
Nina Lublin and Hara Reiser got it right!

Text by Judith Berdy
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