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With Liberty: Folk Art from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

July 1, 2006 - Permanent

Museum: American Art Museum

Location: 1st Floor, West

These galleries serve as a reminder that not all artists are formally trained, and that the making of art is as much an act of passion as of intellect. Artists represented range from Mose Tolliver and Howard Finster to Felipe Archuleta and Thorton Dial, Sr. To provide the installation a particular point of view, the museum asked artist William Christenberry to curate -- choose the objects and provide the wall labels and quotes that express his deep regard for folk art.

Highlights include:

• James Hampton's The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly (1950-64), a visionary work made from salvaged materials covered in gold and silver foil (off view late January through June 2012).
• Selected objects from the Rosenak Collection of American Folk Art

Related book: America's Art: $65 (cloth), $45 (paper)