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State, Local, and Tribal Waterfowl Stamps
July 4, 1998 - December 31, 1998

See more than 40 rare state, local, and tribal waterfowl stamps, part of the legacy of state and local conservation programs started to restore dwindling North American waterfowl populations; unlike federal duck stamps, most of these are nonpictorial.

Postal Museum
Whistler and the Leylands
July 3, 1998 - June 6, 1999

31 works--primarily etchings and drypoints--focus on Whistler's printmaking career under the patronage of Frederick Richards Leyland, a Liverpool ship owner.

Freer Gallery
Directions: Tony Oursler: Video Dolls with Tracy Leipold
July 2, 1998 - September 7, 1998

This first solo exhibition features video-animated sculptures by this New York-based artist.

Hirshhorn Museum
Desert Voices, Desert Light/Luces y voces del desierto
June 19, 1998 - August 30, 1998

See approximately 60 photographs of the Chihuahuan desert, accompanied by an audio of voices and sounds of the desert.

Ripley Center
David Hockney's Grand Canyon
June 19, 1998 - September 7, 1998

On view is a 24-foot-wide oil painting entitled A Bigger Grand Canyon that consists of 60 small canvases mounted as one continuous image.

American Art Museum
Triumph of the Spirit: Carlos Alfonzo, A Survey (1975-1991)
June 18, 1998 - September 13, 1998

This first career retrospective features the ideographic and autobiographical works of the Cuban-American painter, who died of AIDS in 1991.

Hirshhorn Museum
Charles Lang Freer and Egypt Charles Lang Freer and Egypt
June 13, 1998 - August 14, 2011

Some 70 small glass vessels, bronzes, amulets, and sculptures from the New Kingdom to the Roman Period are on view from Freer's eclectic collection of Egyptian artifacts.

Freer Gallery
Business Wings Business Wings
June 12, 1998 - July 17, 2000

The exhibition tells the history of business aviation from open-cockpit biplanes used after World War I to the Lear jet.

Air and Space Museum
African American Fiber Artists
June 6, 1998 - October 11, 1998

View an exhibition that features textile, fiber, and wearable art.

Anacostia Community Museum
Japanese Art in the Age of Koetsu
June 6, 1998 - February 15, 1999

44 paintings, calligraphy, ceramics, and lacquerware created by Hon'ami Koetsu (1558-1637) and his contemporaries during Kyoto's cultural renaissance of the early 17th century are on view.

Freer Gallery
The Collection in Context: Henry Moore's Stringed Figure No. 1
June 4, 1998 - September 7, 1998

A 1-gallery installation focuses on Stringed Figure No. 1 (1937), a cherrywood & string sculpture by this British artist.

Hirshhorn Museum
Speak to My Heart: Communities of Faith and Contemporary African American Life Speak to My Heart: Communities of Faith and Contemporary African American Life
May 22, 1998 - September 19, 2000

Documents, photographs, and music explore the role of the black church in major American cities, including Washington, D.C.

A&I
1848: New Border, New Nation
May 16, 1998 - March 7, 1999

This showcase reviews the history surrounding the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (Feb. 2, 1848), which ended the Mexican War of 1848.

American History Museum
The Jewels of Lalique
May 15, 1998 - August 16, 1998

Examine 230 pieces of Rene Lalique's (1860-1945) Art Nouveau jewelry along with early works in glass, 50 drawings for jewelry design and other memorabilia.

Ripley Center
The Graceful Envelope: 1998
May 6, 1998 - April 30, 1999

These 75 hand-crafted envelopes were submitted by professional calligraphers from around the world.

Postal Museum
Our Town: Mural Art of the New Deal Era
May 1, 1998 - September 9, 1998

On view are 17 mural studies commissioned for U.S. Post Offices during the Great Depression as part of FDR's New Deal legislation.

Postal Museum
Colonial Art from Puerto Rico: Selections from the Gift of Teodoro Vidal
May 1, 1998 - January 3, 2000

13 paintings and santos, dating from the late 17th to early 20th centuries, are on view. 

American Art Museum
Natural Selections, Museum Photography by Chip Clark
April 30, 1998 - September 7, 1998

Natural History Museum
Duke Ellington Renaissance Man
April 24, 1998 - May 31, 1998

American History Museum
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820-Present
April 22, 1998 - December 10, 1998

American History Museum

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