Smithsonian American Art Museum

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The Smithsonian American Art Museum is a museum in Washington, D.C. with an extensive collection of American art.

Part of the Smithsonian Institution, the museum has a broad variety of American art that covers all regions and art movements found in the United States. Among the significant artists represented in its collection are Georgia O'Keeffe, John Singer Sargent, Albert Bierstadt, Edmonia Lewis, Thomas Moran, Edward Hopper, and Winslow Homer.

The museum first opened to the public in 1968 when the Smithsonian renovated the Old Patent Office Building in order to display its collection of American works. This building is shared with the National Portrait Gallery, another Smithsonian museum. The American Art Museum had previously been known as the National Museum of American Art but changed to the current name in October 2000. The museum closed in January 2000 for a major building renovation, and has reopened as of July 1, 2006. During the renovations, much of the collection was visible in a variety of travelling exhibitions across the United States.

The nearest Metro station is Gallery Pl-Chinatown.

Renwick Gallery

Also under the auspices of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Rewick Gallery is a smaller, historic art space on Pennsylvania Avenue across the street from the White House. The building originally housed the collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. In addition to displaying many paintings salon style — that is, hanging them above and immediately adjacent to one another — it also displays a large collection of American crafts.

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