#renwick gallery

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Janet Echelman, 1.8 Renwick, 2015

photo: David Castenson

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Alicia Eggert, This Present Moment, 2019-2020

“Time itself cannot be made, but if time is a medium, what can be made present with it? Can it be stretched and compressed like clay? Can it be turned like wood, carved like stone, bent like glass, or woven like twine? If we use time to make new forms, perhaps those forms can help us tell stories that have previously gone untold.” —Alicia Eggert

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I could spend endless hours in museums

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My Home in Fresno by Marguerite Zorach

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From the Renwick Gallery

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Totty by Helen Hyde. 1896. American.

Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery.

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Frog Decoy

Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery

Artist: Unidentified

Luce Center Label: North American hunters have used decoys for centuries. Native Americans made decoys from reeds, clay, and stuffed skins to lure migrating birds within range of their arrows or spears. European pioneers adopted this technique, and by the early nineteenth century both commercial and sport hunters used carved wooden decoys. Craftsmen shape and decorate decoys either to imitate the desired bird’s prey or “trick” them into thinking it is safe to land.

Credit Line:

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson

Smithsonian Open Access