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scanned book page showing stages of caterpillar evolution
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In the Library: Animal Illustration in Europe, 1550-1750

Sculpture Garden, Northeast Corner

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An interior window framed by brown curtains shows a view into a landscape with grass, shrubs, trees, and a dirt path beneath a blue sky with white clouds in this vertical painting. Upon closer inspection, the three legs of a wooden easel, the clip holding a canvas at the top, and a white, stapled edge draws our attention to the fact that a painted canvas rests directly in front of the window. 
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The Art of Looking: René Magritte, La condition humaine

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An unmade bed with white sheets and scattered pillows is on the right side of this painting. The headboard and sides of the bed are a reddish-brown color, while the sheets and pillows are in shades of white, with a pale-pink fabric that might be a blanket or a piece of clothing. On the left is a wooden chair angled towards the bed, draped with a white cloth and topped with a tea set that includes several gleaming pots and bowls and half of a large yellow lemon or grapefruit. On the gray floor is a pair of black shoes, one upright and the other on its side. On the left, behind the chair, is a closed white door with a round knob. A light illuminates the scene from the top left, casting shadows on the floor.
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The Art of Looking: Elizabeth Okie Paxton, The Breakfast Tray

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Geometric shapes and pieces of fruit in vivid yellow, red, midnight blue, cool green, and orange form a rough pyramid on a mottled brown surface or table in this vertical, abstracted still life painting. The objects and surrounding patterns are painted with visible, textured brushstrokes. The tallest shape is a crimson-red cylinder in the center. In front of and just to the right of the red cylinder is a corn-yellow cylinder topped with a semi-circle resembling a mushroom cap. Next is a red orb, perhaps an apple, sitting in a half-moon shaped, blue and black dish or cup with a yellow footed stem. Balancing out these descending forms are two half-circles that flare to our left from behind the cylinders. The upper disk has a yellow fish-scale pattern against teal blue, and the other lightens from lime green at the center to lemon yellow at the perimeter. Four pieces of fruit are in front of the pyramid. From left to right are a half an oval melon with a dark blue skin and pink flesh, a cluster of acid-green grapes, a pear painted in cobalt blue and bright yellow, and an orange piece of fruit. Slices of pattern cut diagonally across the background and overlap. At the front, turquoise flowers with yellow centers are arranged against coral pink and black lines. Other slices have stripes, polka dots, or more flowers in tones of bright yellow, cranberry red, carnation pink, and sky blue. A vertical band up the right edge of the composition has pale blue dots against celestial blue.
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The Art of Looking: Margaret Burroughs, Still Life

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The image shows a man seated in profile facing to the left. He has short, well-groomed hair and is wearing dark sunglasses, a dark suit, white collared shirt, and a patterned tie. He holds sheets of paper. Another person wearing a hat and sunglasses is slightly blurred behind him. The setting appears to be indoors with other people seated closely together.
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Exhibition Tour—Civil Rights in Photography and the Black Arts Movement

West Building, Main Floor, Lobby B

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Alison Saar, Sweeping Beauty, 1997, 3- color woodcut on Okawara Natural Paper, National Gallery of Art, Promised gift of Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson
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Artist Talk: Willie Cole and Alison Saar in Conversation with Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson

East Building, Concourse, Large Auditorium

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Still from Gordon Parks’s The Learning Tree, courtesy of Park Circus
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The Learning Tree

East Building, Concourse, Large Auditorium

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Still from William Greaves’s The First World Festival of Negro Arts, courtesy of William Greaves Productions
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In Honor of Black Excellence

East Building, Concourse, Large Auditorium

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Still from Ulysses Jenkins’s Dream City, courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix
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Ulysses Jenkins: Video Griot

East Building, Concourse, Large Auditorium

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Celebrating American Art

Step into a fresh take on our American art galleries.

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.
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