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[https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/smithsonian-american-art-museum-acquires-extraordinary-early-photography by News Release 17/8/21 Smithsonian] | [https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/smithsonian-american-art-museum-acquires-extraordinary-early-photography by News Release 17/8/21 Smithsonian] | ||
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has acquired a collection of objects related to early American photography from the collector Larry J. West that transforms the museum’s photography holdings. The L.J. West Collection includes 286 objects from the 1840s to about 1925 in three groupings: works by early African American daguerreotypists James P. Ball, Glenalvin Goodridge and Augustus Washington; early photographs of diverse portrait subjects and objects related to abolitionists, the Underground Railroad and the role of women entrepreneurs in it; and photographic jewelry that represents the bridge between miniature painting and early cased photography such as daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes. | The Smithsonian American Art Museum has acquired a collection of objects related to early American photography from the collector Larry J. West that transforms the museum’s photography holdings. The L.J. West Collection includes 286 objects from the 1840s to about 1925 in three groupings: works by early African American daguerreotypists James P. Ball, Glenalvin Goodridge and Augustus Washington; early photographs of diverse portrait subjects and objects related to abolitionists, the Underground Railroad and the role of women entrepreneurs in it; and photographic jewelry that represents the bridge between miniature painting and early cased photography such as daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes. | ||
=====Painted with Silk: The Art of Early American Embroidery===== | |||
[https://dia.org/about/media-room/media-kits/painted-silk-art-early-american-embroidery by DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS 13/12/24] | |||
This exhibition juxtaposes a large group of embroideries made by American girls and young women between 1740 and 1830, with contemporary embroideries by Elaine Reichek, revealing changing attitudes toward gender, race and class. | |||
