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Films:  Oklahoma!

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Films:  Calamity Jane

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Films:  Yankee Doodle Dandy

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Concerts & Performances:  Garry Burnside

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Films:  Stormy Weather with The Black Network 

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In a camp, two soldiers wearing blue uniforms are lost in thought as they listen to a military band playing music in the background in this vertical painting. Their uniforms consist of midnight-blue jackets, stone-blue pants, and flat-topped, brimmed hats. Brass buttons line the open fronts of their jackets, and a gold-colored emblem is affixed to the tops of their caps. One soldier, at the center of the painting, stands facing our left in profile with one hand on his hip. Another, to our right, sits in front of a tent, also looking to our left. The seated soldier’s knees are spread wide. One hand rests on at least two pieces of paper on his thigh, and he rests his chin in the other hand, also propped on his thigh. A low, triangular tent, about waist-high, is pitched to the left of the standing solider. The inside is dark but closer inspection reveals the bottom of one boot, presumably belonging to a solider lying down inside. At the lower left of the painting, gray smoke drifts up from a pot on a campfire. A knapsack and a pewter plate holding waffle-like hardtack are laid near the tent. A few branches cover the dirt ground to our right. A tan cloth draped over an arbor-like structure of sticks forms a partition between the two soldiers and the rest of the camp, dividing the composition. Rows of tents extend into the distance. A band of soldiers plays music in the distance, light glinting off their gold horn instruments. A row of tents is visible in the deep distance, perhaps across a body of water. The horizon line comes about two-thirds of the way up the composition, and puffy white clouds drift across the pale blue sky above.

Talks & Conversations:  The Art of Looking: Winslow Homer, Home, Sweet Home

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Exhibition:  In the Tower: Chakaia Booker

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Exhibition:  Back and Forth

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Close to us, a young man and three boys sit or recline in a small sailboat that tips to our left on a choppy dark green sea in this horizontal painting. The billowing sail extends off the top left corner of the canvas and is echoed in the background to our right by the tall sails of another ship in the distance. The horizon line comes about a third of the way up the composition, and puffy gray and white clouds sweep across the turquoise sky. The sun lights the scene from our right so the boys’ ruddy faces are in shadow under their hats. The young man and boys all face our left so they lean against and into the boat as it cants up to our right. The boy nearest the sail to our left reclines across the bow. Next to him to our right, a younger boy perches on the edge of the boat and holds on with both hands. The oldest, in a red shirt, sits on the floor of the boat as he maneuvers the sail with a rope. Closer to us and to our right, a younger boy sits with his bare feet pressed together in front of his bent knees on the back edge of the boat, gazing into the distance over his right shoulder as he handles the tiller. The artist signed and dated the painting in dark letters in the lower right corner: “HOMER 1876.”

Exhibition:  Celebrating American Art

Ongoing from March 1, 2026

Exhibition:  Thomas Cole

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Exhibition:  Mark Rothko

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Guided Tours:  The Collection, Up Close

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Guided Tours:  Impressionism and 19th-Century France  

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A woman showing a man and a woman a painting at the National Gallery of Art.

Guided Tours:  American Art

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Two visitors with their back to us look at an abstract geometric painting hanging on a white wall. The woman has long dark hair, and is gesturing her hand towards the painting. The man has a grey baseball cap, and short hair.

Guided Tours:  Understanding Modern and Contemporary Art

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Guided Tours:  The Collection, Up Close

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Guided Tours:  Impressionism and 19th-Century France  

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