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Home>Exhibitions>2023>American Places: Featuring Selections from the Corcoran Collection

# American Places: Featuring Selections from the Corcoran Collection

Now on View

## November 3, 2023 – May 5, 2024East Building, Ground Floor - Galleries 106 A-C

Being alone and being in a crowd: many American artists in the early 20th century probed these opposed yet essential aspects of modern life. See how artists captured landscapes from isolated mountaintops to crowded cities. Paintings by Grant Wood, Hale Woodruff, and Georgia O’Keeffe evoke the solitude of rural places. Others by George Bellows, Stuart Davis, and David Park conjure the chaos and vibrancy of city life. Numerous works on view come from the Corcoran Collection.  

An adjoining installation of works on paper focuses on one place that had a formative influence on American art: the Corcoran Gallery of Art and its related art school, the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, which is now part of George Washington University. The Corcoran Gallery was an active force in Washington, DC, from its founding in 1869 until it closed in 2014. These works represent educators, students, and artists who were linked to the Corcoran, including painters Alma Thomas and Sam Gilliam, sculptor Anne Truitt, and photographers Roy DeCarava and John Gossage. 

## Explore Selected Works

American Places
Hughie Lee-Smith, *Reflection*, 1957, oil on particle board, Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.), 2015.19.207

American Places
George Bellows, *The Lone Tenement*, 1909, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.83

American Places
Charles Sheeler, *Classic Landscape*, 1931, oil on canvas, Collection of Barney A. Ebsworth, 2000.39.2

American Places
Andrew Wyeth, *Wind from the Sea*, 1947, tempera on hardboard, Gift of Charles H. Morgan, 2009.13.1

American Places
George Bellows, *Forty-two Kids*, 1907, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund), 2014.79.2

American Places
Hale Woodruff, *Landscape*, 1936, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.), 2014.136.160

American Places
David Park, *Sophomore Society*, c. 1953, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Lydia Park Moore, wife of the artist), 2015.19.139

American Places
Georgia O'Keeffe, *Wall with Green Door*, 1953, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Woodward Foundation), 2015.19.155

American Places
Renée Stout, Hand Print Workshop International, *Burn for Love*, 2000, color screenprint on Rives BFK wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Hand Print Workshop in honor of Anne and Ronald Abramson and the Directors of the Hand Print Workshop International), 2015.19.3181

American Places
Stuart Davis, *Study for "Swing Landscape"*, 1937-1938, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase and exchange through a gift given in memory of Edith Gregor Halpert by the Halpert Foundation and the William A. Clark Fund), 2014.79.15

American Places
Edward Hopper, *Cape Cod Evening*, 1939, oil on canvas, John Hay Whitney Collection, 1982.76.6

American Places
Gene Davis, Lou Stovall, Smithsonian Institution, *Untitled*, 1985, color screenprint on Bainbridge wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Gift from Estate of Judge Arthur H. Fribourg), 2015.19.3000

American Places
George Bellows, *New York*, 1911, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1986.72.1

American Places
Marietta Minnigerode Andrews, *Glimpse of the Palazzo Doria, Genova*, 1892, transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Armistead Peter III [Caroline Ogden-Jones Peter]), 2015.19.2610

American Places
Addison Scurlock, *Portrait of Madame Evanti (Lillian Tibbs)*, c. 1934, gelatin silver print, Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.), 2015.19.4506

American Places
John Gossage, *Washington, D.C.*, 1979, gelatin silver print, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Garfinkle), 2015.19.4366

American Places
Roy DeCarava, *Street Closed*, 1975, gelatin silver print, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase), 2015.19.4145

American Places
Anne Truitt, *1 June 1976*, 1976, acrylic with traces of graphite on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Exchange and gift of Ramon Osuna), 2016.23.12

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**Banner detail**: Hughie Lee-Smith, *Reflection*, 1957, oil on particle board, Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.), 2015.19.207

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