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Concerts & Performances

Dance Performance: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company 

West Building, Main Floor, Rotunda

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We look slightly down onto a round faced girl with flushed, pale skin sitting almost in profile on a ladderback chair, facing our right. Shown from the lap up, she almost takes up the height of this vertical painting. She wears a voluminous, ice-blue chemise with elbow-length sleeves and a round, sapphire-blue earring in the ear we can see. Her head is tilted slightly back as she reaches up with both hands. With her right hand, closer to us, she holds the end of a chestnut-brown braid hanging over that shoulder. Her other elbow points upward as she touches hair at the base of the neck. Her lips and face are deeply flushed in her otherwise pale face. Her mouth hangs slightly open, revealing white teeth as her half-closed violet-colored eyes gaze off to our right. She sits in the corner of a room with wallpaper decorated in a pattern of tree limbs and leaves in cranberry red and slate blue on a mauve-pink background. A peanut-brown dresser behind her is covered with a white cloth on which sit a white cup and glass pitcher with a tapered neck. A white porcelain ewer and washbasin, tinged with blue, are partially visible behind her bent left elbow. The lower corner of a mirror in a bamboo frame hangs from the upper right. A portion of a burgundy rug fills the lower left corner.
Talks & Conversations

Book Launch—Cassatt Reconsidered

East Building, Concourse, Large Auditorium

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Hands-On Activities

Bison Bead Workshop 

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Souvenirs of the Gilded Age
French Landscapes from the Corcoran Collection
March 13, 2027 - January 17, 2028

Once coveted by America’s wealthy, these landscape paintings were largely lost to history.

West Building, Main Floor, Gallery M72
We look across a lush landscape of olive-green forests lining a glimmering, silvery-blue lake with hills in the deep distance under a pale blue sky in this horizontal landscape painting. The scene is painted with some visible and some blended brushstrokes to give it a hazy, soft appearance. A man wearing a red cap and a white shirt sits in a long, low, narrow boat with a pointed bow in the grasses along the shore, near the bottom center of the composition. Gnarled tree trunks, one to each side, frame the view beyond. Towering, leafy trees nearly fill the right half of the painting. To our left, the still surface of the lake leads back to a city painted almost in silhouette with flint blue, which is reflected in the surface of the water. Hills and mountains are painted in bands of lightening blue as they recede into the deep distance to our left. The horizon comes about a third of the way up the composition, and the pale sky above is veiled with soft white clouds. The painting is signed in orange letters in the lower left corner, “COROT,” and dated in the lower right, “JANVIER 1866.”
INTERACTIVE ARTICLE

Everyday Awe

Learn how the American painter Georgia O'Keeffe marveled at commonplace natural forms—and how to find the same sense of awe on your own.

By Nathalie Ryan
The image depicts a woman sitting on the ground. She is turned slightly towards the camera, with her right arm resting on her bent knee. She has short, wavy dark hair, a soft facial expression, and is wearing a chunky sweater over a white skirt. Artist supplies such as a palette, an open book or sketchpad, and a glass of liquid are nearby. The background shows a pathway beside a brick structure partially covered by greenery, with plants growing next to where she is seated.
Talks & Conversations

Artist Talk: Jeffrey Gibson

East Building, Concourse, Large Auditorium

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Talks & Conversations

Book Launch—Becoming Roy Lichtenstein: The Path to Pop

East Building, Concourse, Large Auditorium

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Talks & Conversations

Family Poetry Writing Workshop: María Fernanda on Language

East Building, Mezzanine, Gallery E214

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Talks & Conversations

Poetry Writing Workshop: María Fernanda on Language

East Building, Mezzanine, Gallery E214

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Talks & Conversations

Poetry Writing Workshop: María Fernanda on Language

East Building, Mezzanine, Gallery E214

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