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The image is a repeating pattern featuring portraits of a historical figure framed within oval borders. Each portrait displays only the upper body, showing the head and shoulders of the individual in a forward-facing position with slightly turned shoulders. The person depicted has a solemn expression, a prominent nose, narrow eyes, white hair styled in a historical powdered wig fashion, and is dressed in a dark coat with a high collar and a white ruffled shirt. The background has vine-like designs with small leaves, and red shield-like shapes with the word "PEACE" and scales for balance. The year "1776" is inscribed above each portrait.
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Dear America

Artists Explore the American Experience

What does it mean to be American? How have artists examined this question?

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The image features a series of horizontal lines and a rectangle filled with star shapes at the top left corner. The flag consists of green and black stripes with a red rectangle in the upper left containing a pattern of blue stars. Below, a more subdued version mirrors the form with tones of gray and white. The composition is set against a textured gray background.

American Icon

The US Flag in Art

30 works from the late 1800s to today illustrate changing uses and interpretations of the US flag, the values it represents, and the people who identify with it.

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The image is a repeating pattern of portraits of a historical figure framed within oval borders. Each portrait displays only the upper body, showing the head and shoulders of the individual in a forward-facing position with slightly turned shoulders. The person has a solemn expression, a prominent nose, narrow eyes, wears a white historical powdered wig and a dark coat with a high collar and a white ruffled shirt. The background has vine-like designs. There is a logo on the right that says America's 250th.

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Dear America

Artists Explore the American Experience
Through September 20, 2026

What does it mean to be American? How have artists examined this question?

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We hover over the bottle-green surface of a river as it rushes toward a horseshoe-shaped waterfall that curves away from us in this horizontal landscape painting. The water is white and frothy right in front of us, where the shelf of the riverbed changes levels near the edge of the falls. Across from us, the water is also white where it falls over the edge. A thin, broken rainbow glints in the mist near the upper left corner of the painting and continues its arc farther down, between the falls. The horizon line is just over halfway up the composition. Plum-purple clouds sweep into the composition at the upper corners against a lavender-colored sky. Tiny trees and a few buildings line the shoreline to the left and right in the deep distance.
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Niagara Falls

Mist and Majesty
Through September 20, 2026

Some 20 works probe how the layered histories and meanings of Niagara Falls have evolved from the early 19th century to today.

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Clifford Ross

Digital Waves
Through October 18, 2026

Our central, soaring Rotunda comes alive with a 23-foot screen featuring waves built from millions of glowing pixels.

West Building

Sky Hopinka

Kicking the Clouds
Through December 6, 2026

Through photographs, poems, and film, Sky Hopinka connects family, language, place, and lived Indigenous experience. 

West Building
The image features a series of horizontal lines and a rectangle filled with star shapes at the top left corner. The flag consists of green and black stripes with a red rectangle in the upper left containing a pattern of blue stars. Below, a more subdued version mirrors the form with tones of gray and white. The composition is set against a textured gray background. On the right is a logo that reads America's 250th in shades of white, red, and blue against a black circle background.

American Icon

The US Flag in Art
Through December 6, 2026

30 works from the late 1800s to today illustrate changing uses and interpretations of the US flag, the values it represents, and the people who identify with it.

East Building

In the Library: Reimagining America by Design

Through December 31, 2026

See the Great Depression-era Index of American Design through the eyes of today’s college students. 

East Building

Back and Forth

Rozeal., Titian, Cezanne
Through January 3, 2027

Spanning six centuries and different cultures, four paintings reveal how artists engage with art history—and become part of it. 

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This painting shows a canyon landscape viewed from a high vantage point, with ridges and formations extending into the distance. The horizon is positioned high in the painting, with the light-blue sky featuring soft white clouds. The canyon displays vibrant shades of red, pink, and green, contrasting with shadowed areas in darker shades of blue and gray. In the bottom right corner of the painting, there are some geometric white and blue patterns overlayed on top of the canyon.

Homelands

Through August 1, 2027

What does it mean to have a “homeland” when it’s shaped by movement, memory, and change?

East Building

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The image depicts a seated woman in a half-body portrait within an ornate gold-colored border. She is sitting upright with her hands in lace gloves in front of her. The woman has a composed expression, short hair, and wears a dark dress with lace details. The background is plain, emphasizing the details of her attire and the frame. No jewelry is visible.

Remember Me

Picturing African Americans in Early Photography
November 7, 2026 - March 14, 2027

Discover remarkable early photographs of and by Black Americans that tell powerful stories of identity, resilience, and self-representation.

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The image features curved and flowing lines in a blend of muted and vibrant colors. Two figures are depicted: one cloaked in a dark shadow and the other elongated with pale, flowing robes. The scene suggests a shoreline with wavy lines resembling water. The surrounding landscape portrays sweeping curves and indistinct shapes reminiscent of hills or mountains in the distance.

Tinker Tinker

Printmakers at Work
December 19, 2026 - June 13, 2027

Get an intimate look at how artists like Pablo Picasso, Mary Cassatt, and Rembrandt experimented, revised, and problem-solved through printmaking.  

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The image displays geometric shapes, including hexagons and triangles, arranged in a pattern. It combines shapes with colors and patterns. The repeated use of hexagons and triangles creates a patchwork design.

Women and the Index of American Design

January 16 - June 13, 2027

Nearly 50 drawings examine women’s roles in the Depression-era art project that sought to document American designs in applied, decorative, and folk art.

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Broken

The Power of the Fragment in Sculpture
March 13 - June 27, 2027

Discover how a fragment tells a whole story.

West Building, Main Floor

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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. There is a logo that reads America's 250th on the right.

Celebrating American Art

Step into a fresh take on our American art galleries.

West Building, Main Floor
This is a photograph of a garden at dusk with a house featuring a brightly lit window. In the foreground, a small garden is visible, containing various flowers surrounding a stepping-stone path, and a ladder leaning against a bush covered in pink flowers. A large tree with bare branches stands in front of the house. The house showcases a Mediterranean-style architecture with a white stucco exterior and a red tiled roof. The window is illuminated from inside, casting a warm glow onto the interior, providing a glimpse of the warm atmosphere indoors set against the twilight exterior.

Nocturnes

What does the night let us imagine?

West Building
A room with white walls, hardwood floors, and skylights, with various sculptural forms, mobiles, and some paintings on display.

Alexander Calder

A Survey

Immerse yourself in the world’s largest display of works by Calder, featuring more than 40 sculptures and paintings.

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An open window with semi-transparent curtains blowing in the breeze looking out onto an empty field with trees in the background.

American Places

Featuring Selections from the Corcoran Collection

See how early 20th-century artists captured experiences of modern life, from isolated mountaintops to crowded cities.

East Building

Marc Chagall

Orphée

Hidden in a corner of our Sculpture Garden stands a large-scale mosaic which combines narratives from Greek mythology with the artist's personal experience escaping Nazi-occupied France.

Sculpture Garden

Amedeo Modigliani

A rare opportunity to see 11 paintings and one sculpture by the artist together.

East Building

Mark Rothko

Bodies in Space

Experience the rare chance to see paintings from across Rothko’s career, from early paintings of bodies to his monumental abstract canvases.

East Building, Tower Level
Five abstract paintings hanging on a white wall in a room with hardwood floors and a skylight.

Barnett Newman

The Stations of the Cross

This gallery presents what many consider American painter Barnett Newman’s greatest achievement.

East Building

Room-Like

Contemporary Art from the Collection

Immerse yourself in works that reimagine room-like spaces.

East Building

The Corcoran Collection

This room honors the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the first institution in the United States created specifically as an art museum.

West Building

The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection

See a selection of post-World War II American art ranging from expressionist to pop and abstract to figurative.

East Building
Military men marching in formation with rifles on their shoulders, backpacks, and drummer in the front. One man is on horseback with a sword in his hand.

The Shaw 54th Regiment Memorial

See a plaster version of Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s revolutionary memorial to the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, one of the first African American regiments formed in the North.

West Building

Thomas Cole

The Voyage of Life

See the Hudson River School painter's four-part series tracing a pilgrim’s journey through changing landscapes along the “River of Life” from childhood to old age.

West Building

Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Kaufman Collection, 1700–1830

An installation of nearly 100 examples of early American furniture and decorative arts.

West Building

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