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  • RAP 25th Anniversary Exhibition

    View photomontages of Discover Graphics and Discovery Theater.

    September 18, 1990 – December 31, 1990

    Arts and Industries Building

  • Carry Me Home

    Photographs review Debbie Caffery's early documentary work of the sugar cane culture of Louisiana. 

    October 17, 1990 – December 30, 1990

    American History Museum

  • 18th-Century Scenic and Architectural Design

    See 70 drawings and engravings of theater and stage design by the Galli Bibiena family from the National Collection of Portugal.

    September 25, 1990 – December 30, 1990

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

  • Homage to RAP: Small Display

    View 2 lithographs commissioned by RAP and donated to the museum: In Celebration by Sam Gilliam(1987) and Tunis On My Mind by Willem deLooper (1988). 

    September 18, 1990 – December 18, 1990

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • Franz Gertsch: Nine Large-scale Woodcuts

    Visit monumental works mostly from the Swiss artist's Natascha IV series of 1987-88.

    September 19, 1990 – December 16, 1990

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • RAP 25th Anniversary Exhibition

    See a sketch and photo detail of the Mary McFadden dress; and Bright Surround lithograph by Jacob Kainen, 1989 - both donated by the Smithsonian's Resident Associate Program. 

    October 1, 1990 – December 1, 1990

    American History Museum

  • 400-million-year-old Trilobite

    In conjunction with Smithsonian Resident Associate Program's 25th Anniversary, this exhibition features a 400-million-year-old trilobite found by RAP member Y. Kirkpatrick Howard during a RAP course collecting trip in Strasburg, Virginia. 

    September 1, 1990 – November 30, 1990

    Natural History Museum

  • The Art of the Nature Print

    See 19th- and 20th-century American prints made from surfaces such as feathers, flowers, ferns, leaves, rocks, and fabrics. 

    November 29, 1989 – November 30, 1990

    American History Museum

  • A Jeweler's Art: Masterpieces from Van Cleef & Arpels

    View brooches, bracelets, necklaces, earrings, vanity and powder boxes, watches, evening bags, and special commissions dating from the 1920s through the 1950s.  

    July 13, 1990 – November 30, 1990

    Natural History Museum

  • Drawings and Things by Rowland Emett

    Take a light-hearted look at aircraft and spacecraft, Including drawings, paintings, and artistic machines by the artist who created the moving sculpture Pussiewillow II for the Air and Space Museum.

    December 21, 1989 – November 26, 1990

    Air and Space Museum

  • Structure and Surface: Beads in Contemporary American Art

    Enjoy 44 necklaces, sculptures, collages, adornments, and tableaux made of beads by 12 artists.

    July 27, 1990 – November 25, 1990

    Renwick Gallery

  • Oliphant's Presidents: Twenty-Five Years of Caricature

    Discover 41 drawings of U.S. presidents created in the last 25 years by the political cartoonist.

    April 6, 1990 – November 25, 1990

    Portrait Gallery

  • Okiek Portraits: A Kenyan People Look at Themselves

    See photographs by Corinne Kratz of Kaplelach and Kipchornwonek Okiek people of Kenya, taken between 1982 and 1989 

    June 30, 1990 – November 12, 1990

    Natural History Museum

  • Visual Poetry: The Drawings of Joseph Stella

    See 60 drawings and collages by this prolific master draftsman and early modernist master.

    September 7, 1990 – November 12, 1990

    American Art Museum

  • David Ireland Works

    The California artist's site-specific work composed of a floor-to-ceiling wall with rectangular openings provides vistas of the National Mall. 

    July 25, 1990 – November 4, 1990

    Hirshhorn Museum

  • Working for Time: The Covers of Robert Vickrey

    View 20 portraits by Robert Vickrey, which appeared on the cover of Time magazine.

    June 9, 1990 – November 4, 1990

    Portrait Gallery

  • Recent Acquisitions (1990)

    View paintings, sculptures, prints, and photographs, including Rubens Peale by Rembrandt Peale.

    May 11, 1990 – November 4, 1990

    Portrait Gallery

  • The Five of Hearts: Henry Adams and His Washington Circle

    See portraits, photographs, and memorabilia of this late 19th-century circle of friends in Washington, DC.

    June 9, 1990 – November 4, 1990

    Portrait Gallery

  • Smithsonian Resident Associate Program Silver Anniversary Exhibition

    A panel of photographs of RAP/NPG collaborative events honors RAP's 25th anniversary.

    September 16, 1990 – October 31, 1990

    Portrait Gallery

  • Go Forth and Serve: History of Black Land Grant Colleges

    Commemorate the 100th anniversary of Black Land Grant Colleges, focusing on the origins of the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1890.

    April 18, 1990 – October 31, 1990

    American History Museum

  • Lobster Tales

    This case explores the world's diversity of lobsters and includes four different families, several different species, and fossils. 

    November 1, 1989 – October 31, 1990

    Natural History Museum

  • Sculpture Installation: John Scott's "Blues Migration"

    See a site-specific work created for the Washington Project for the Arts' exhibition, The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism. 8-foot aluminum rods reflect the interplay of a jazz ensemble.

    December 3, 1989 – October 25, 1990

    American Art Museum

  • European Shawls

    See European shawls worn by women in the 19th century. 

    October 1, 1989 – October 19, 1990

    American History Museum

  • Contrasts: 40 Years of Change and Continuity in Puerto Rico

    This bilingual exhibition features 100 photographs of Puerto Rican society taken by Jack Delano. 

    September 15, 1990 – October 15, 1990

    American History Museum

  • The Doghouse

    See doghouses created by leading American architects and designers that are accessible to visitors with visual impairments, in this exhibition developed in collaboration with Guiding Eyes for the Blind.

    June 8, 1990 – October 14, 1990

    Cooper Hewitt Design Museum


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