Take a summer lunch break with Art Bites at SAAM. 
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Art Bites Gallery Talks
Fourth Friday of each month, 12:15–12:45 p.m.
Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery
Free | See Locations Below


Join SAAM’s research fellows this summer for an ongoing lunchtime series of gallery talks as they share new discoveries about artworks on view. Learn the stories behind these objects and how each one tells us about America’s ever-changing culture. 

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May 30
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Meet in the G Street Lobby
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Natalie E. Wright, George Gurney Predoctoral Fellow, considers Andrew Clemens’s Untitled (The Mary Heye Bottle).  

Please note this gallery talk was originally scheduled for Friday, May 31.


 
June 28
Renwick Gallery
Meet in the Renwick Gallery Lobby
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Kéla B. Jackson, Terra Foundation Predoctoral Fellow in American Art, provides new insights on L'Merchie Frazier’s From a Birmingham Jail: MLK.
July 26
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Meet in G Street Lobby
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Molly K. Eckel, Joe and Wanda Corn Predoctoral Fellow, discusses William H. Johnson’s Underground Railroad.
August 23
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Meet in G Street Lobby


Phillippa Pitts, Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, explores Albert Bierstadt’s Among the Sierra Nevada, California.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum is able to create and share experiences like these thanks to funding from generous supporters like you. Thank you for ensuring that American art is available to all. Donate to support SAAM.

Image Credits: Art Bites; Photo by Charla Jasper

Andrew Clemens, Untitled (The Mary Heye Bottle), 1883, naturally colored rock sand in pharmacy bottle, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift from the estate of Mary Brashier, granddaughter of Mary Heye, 2021.69

L'Merchie Frazier, From a Birmingham Jail: MLK, 1996, silk, photo transfer, gel medium, dyes, and beads, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of L'Merchie Frazier in memory of Watty and Alberta Frazier and James and Merchie Dooley (grandparents), 2002.41

William H. Johnson, Underground Railroad, ca. 1945, oil on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation, 1967.59.645

Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada, California, 1868, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Helen Huntington Hull, granddaughter of William Brown Dinsmore, who acquired the painting in 1873 for ​“The Locusts,” the family estate in Dutchess County, New York, 1977.107.1
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