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Luce Foundation Center for American Art

July 1, 2006 - Permanent

Museum: American Art Museum

Location: 3rd & 4th Floors and 3rd Floor Mezzanine, West

The Luce Foundation Center for American Art is the first visible art storage and study center in Washington that showcases more than 3,000 artworks from the museum's permanent collection: paintings densely hung on screens; sculptures, contemporary crafts, and art objects arranged on shelves; and portrait miniatures, bronze medals, and contemporary jewelry in drawers that slide open with the touch of a button. The space allows the museum to display five times the number of paintings and sculptures on public view.

Highlights include:

• selected objects from the Rosenak Collection of American Folk Art
• a selection of Presidential Inaugural medals
• in-depth collections of paintings by the African American modernist William H. Johnson
• paintings by 19th-century artists Albert Pinkham Ryder and Henry Ossawa Tanner
• John Gellatly's European collection of decorative arts

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