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86-545: A Chance , which was created by City Mystery. The game allowed patrons "a new way of engaging with the collection" in the Luce Foundation Center. The game ran for six weeks and attracted more than 6,000 participants. Charles A. Platt Charles Adams Platt (October 16, 1861 – September 12, 1933) was an American architect , garden designer , and artist of the " American Renaissance " movement. His garden designs complemented his domestic architecture. Platt

129-762: A Neo-Georgian house in an extensive wooded landscape setting. He also designed a house in 1912 in Roslyn , New York for George R. Dyer . Platt also designed a large manor house and grounds, built in 1915 in the City of Little Falls, New York , (extant, in private ownership) for Mr. J. Judson Gilbert, owner of the Gilbert Knitting Company and several other then-prosperous factories in the Mohawk Valley region of Upstate New York . The MIT Endicott House in Dedham, Massachusetts ,

172-670: A congested condition in the Natural History , Industrial Arts , and Smithsonian Buildings". In 1924, architect Charles A. Platt drew up preliminary plans for a National Gallery of Art to be built on the block next to the Natural History Museum. However, this building was never constructed. In 1937, the National Gallery of Art became the National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA), because Andrew Mellon insisted that

215-668: A draftsman from his own office, then sent to Grosse Pointe, Michigan to plant one of his designs. His more visible public commissions include the Italianate palazzo he designed for the Smithsonian Institution 's Freer Gallery of Art (1918) in Washington, D.C., and the campuses of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (1922 and 1927), Connecticut College , Deerfield Academy , and Phillips Academy Andover , where he designed

258-647: A factor until the late 1990s, when the work of the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation and the opening of the MCI Center (now Capital One Arena) across the street from the museum sparked a revitalization of the neighborhood. The NCFA gained a new branch in 1972, opening the Renwick Gallery , dedicated to design and crafts, in a historic building near the White House . In 1980,

301-630: A townhouse for Sara Delano Roosevelt on East 65th Street in New York, now a historic landmark, the Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House . Eleanor Roosevelt called Platt "an architect of great taste" who with the townhouse had "made the most of every inch of space." The building currently houses the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College . In 1912, he designed "The Causeway", Washington DC ,

344-618: Is Artful Connections , which gives real-time video conference tours of American Art. In addition, the museum offers the Summer Institutes: Teaching the Humanities through Art, week-long professional development workshops that introduce educators to methods for incorporating American art and technology into their humanities curricula. American Art has seven online research databases, which has more than 500,000 records of artworks in public and private collections worldwide, including

387-606: Is actor Oliver Platt . Charles Platt died in Cornish, New Hampshire at the age of 72. Near the end of the 20th century some of Platt's surviving gardens in their full maturity were opened to the public including the spectacular gardens at the Gwinn Estate in Cleveland, Ohio (designed with Warren Manning and Ellen Biddle Shipman ). His drawings and archives, including the original glass plate negatives for "Italian Gardens" are held by

430-572: Is another Platt-designed mansion built for H. Wendell Endicott in 1934, in use today as a conference center for Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Beginning in 1906, Platt had begun to receive numerous commissions from the estate of Vincent Astor . Platt turned to professional help in surveying large-scale projects from the sons of Frederick Law Olmsted . He also received detailed planting plans to fill his borders from Ellen Biddle Shipman , whom he had come to know through her gardening at Cornish, and whom he had instructed in presentation drawings by

473-688: The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts from 1916 to 1921, and as vice chairman from 1920 to 1921. Throughout his life, Platt maintained his house and garden in Cornish, New Hampshire, and an office and residence in Manhattan. With his second wife, Eleanor Hardy Bunker (widow of Dennis Miller Bunker ), whom Platt married in 1893, Platt had five children. Among the children were William (1897–1984) and Geoffrey (1905–1985), who followed in their father's footsteps and practiced architecture in New York City. His great-grandson

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516-456: The 2000s renovation, a "series of exhibitions of more than 1,000 major artworks from American Art's permanent collection traveled to 105 venues across the United States," which were "seen by more than 2.5 million visitors". Since 2006, thirteen exhibitions have toured to more than 30 cities. SAAM provides electronic resources to schools and the public as part of education programs. An example

559-629: The Grand Salon. Part of the Smithsonian Institution , the museum has a broad variety of American art, with more than 7,000 artists represented, that covers all regions and art movements found in the United States. SAAM contains the world's largest collection of New Deal art; a collection of contemporary craft, American impressionist paintings, and masterpieces from the Gilded Age ; photography, modern folk art, works by African American and Latino artists, images of western expansion, and realist art from

602-545: The Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture. Numerous researchers and millions of virtual visitors per year use these databases. Also, American Art and Heritage Preservation work together in a joint project, Save Outdoor Sculpture, "dedicated to the documentation and preservation of outdoor sculpture". The museum produces a peer-reviewed periodical, American Art (started in 1987), for new scholarship. Since 1993, American Art has been had an online presence. It has one of

645-739: The Main Library, McKinley Hospital, and the President's House. His Italian Renaissance -styled Russell A. Alger House, at 32 Lakeshore Drive, now serves as the Grosse Pointe War Memorial. Platt also designed the Lyme Art Association building in Old Lyme, Connecticut . Platt's The Leader-News Building in Cleveland, Ohio , at the corner of Superior and Bond Street (now East 6th Street)

688-558: The NCFA occupying the northern half of the building. Renovation work on the building began in 1964. The NCFA opened in its new home on May 6, 1968. The museum's relocation came at an unfortunate time, as the neighborhood had been devastated a month earlier by the Martin Luther King assassination riots . The NCFA struggled to attract visitors over the following decades, as the streets around it remained bleak and lonely. This would remain

731-701: The National Portrait Gallery reopened their combined building, renamed as the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, on July 1, 2006. The Smithsonian American Art Museum shares the historic Old Patent Office building with the National Portrait Gallery , another Smithsonian museum. Although the two museums' names have not changed, they are collectively known as the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture . Also under

774-588: The Patent Office Building. To keep the museum's collection accessible to the public during the closure, many of the artworks were sent out in a "Treasures to Go" series of traveling exhibitions, billed as "the largest museum tour in history". The museum's name was changed to the Smithsonian American Art Museum in October 2000 so that the museum and its traveling exhibitions could benefit from

817-472: The Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery work in the Lunder Center. The museum has put on hundreds of exhibitions since its founding. Many exhibitions are groundbreaking and promote new scholarship within the field of American art. What follows is a brief list of selected, and more recent, examples: The museum has maintained a traveling exhibition program since 1951. During

860-578: The Smithsonian's brand recognition. After renovations were underway, the plans were broadened in an effort to restore much of the building's original elegance. Many of the building's exceptional architectural features were restored: porticos modeled after the Parthenon in Athens, a curving double staircase, colonnades, vaulted galleries, large windows, and skylights as long as a city block. New features added to

903-564: The art collection, as Smithsonian Secretary Joseph Henry preferred to focus on scientific research. The collection was first on display in the original Smithsonian Building (now known as the Castle). In 1865, a fire destroyed much of the collection. Those art holdings that survived were mostly loaned to the Library of Congress and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in the following decades. In 1896,

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946-416: The artworks were brought back to the Smithsonian, after Congress appropriated money to construct a fireproof room for them. The Smithsonian began to refer to its art collection as the National Gallery of Art in 1906, in connection with efforts to receive Harriet Lane Johnston 's art collection, which she had bequeathed to the "national art gallery". The collection grew as the Smithsonian buildings grew, and

989-507: The auspices of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Renwick Gallery is a smaller, historic building on Pennsylvania Avenue across the street from the White House . The building originally housed the collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art . In addition to displaying a large collection of American contemporary craft, several hundred paintings from the museum's permanent collection — hung salon style: one-atop-another and side-by-side — are featured in special installations in

1032-563: The building included the Lunder Conservation Center, the Luce Foundation Center for American Art, Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium, and the Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard. Meanwhile, the museum's offices, library, and storage were moved to the nearby Victor Building, freeing up valuable space and allowing the museum to display four times as many artworks as before. The renovation ultimately took six years and $ 283 million. The museum and

1075-474: The chapel and library and their settings. He fulfilled the University of Illinois's 1920s building program by designing 11 buildings, for many purposes, all in a Georgian style, with red brick, white wood and limestone trim, round and arched windows, and prominent gables, dormers, and chimneys. These included several buildings (1924–31) combining classrooms and offices, a dormitory, gymnasiums, plus such landmarks as

1118-572: The collection was housed in one or more Smithsonian buildings on the National Mall. In 1920, the National Gallery of Art was separated from the National Museum, becoming its own branch of the Smithsonian, with William Henry Holmes as its first director. By this time, space had become critical: "Collections to the value of several millions of dollars are in storage or temporarily on exhibition and are crowding out important exhibits and producing

1161-632: The collection. The Lunder Conservation Center is "the first art conservation facility to allow the public permanent behind-the-scenes views of the preservation work of museums". The Luce Foundation Center, which opened in July 2000, is the first visible art storage and study center in Washington, D.C., and the fourth center to bear the Luce Family name. It has 20,400 square feet on the third and fourth floors of American Art Museum. It presents more than 3,300 objects in 64 secure glass cases, which quadruples

1204-549: The decade 1880–1890, he made hundreds of etchings of architecture and landscapes. He received a bronze medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900 . A trip to Italy in 1892 in the company of his brother to photograph extant Renaissance gardens and villas led to a marked development in Platt's aesthetic approach. He published many of these images in his influential book Italian Gardens (Harper & Brothers, 1894),

1247-534: The earliest museum websites when, in 1995, it launched its own website. EyeLevel, the first blog at the Smithsonian Institution, was started in 2005 and, as of 2013, the blog "has approximately 12,000 readers each month". In 2006, fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi designed the conservators' denim work aprons. In 2008, the American Art Museum hosted an alternate reality game , called Ghosts of

1290-643: The early 20th century. Platt was a member of the group that gravitated to the Cornish Art Colony , which formed around Augustus Saint-Gaudens in Cornish, New Hampshire . His own garden in Cornish, made between 1892 and 1912, exemplifies a new style, essentially an Arts and Crafts setting for Beaux-Arts Neo-Georgian and Colonial Revival architecture. Platt designed a grand country estate for Edith Rockefeller McCormick at "Villa Turicum" in Lake Forest, Illinois (1912, demolished). In 1907, he designed

1333-448: The exhibitions. In 2022 the museum received 1,100,000 visitors, ranking it seventh in the List of most-visited museums in the United States . The museum's history can be traced to the creation of the Smithsonian Institution in 1846. The act of Congress establishing the Smithsonian called for it to include "a gallery of art". In its early years, however, little effort was put into developing

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1376-455: The extraordinary creativity of artists whose works reflect the American experience and global connections." The American Art's main building contains expanded permanent-collection galleries and public spaces. The museum has two innovative public spaces. The Luce Foundation Center for American Art is a visible art storage and study center, which allows visitors to browse more than 3,300 works of

1419-859: The first floor. The center has John Gellatly's European collection of decorative arts. The Lunder Conservation Center, which opened in July 2006, is the first art conservation facility that allows the public permanent behind-the-scenes views of preservation work. Conservation staff are visible to the public through floor-to-ceiling glass walls that allow visitors to see firsthand all the techniques which conservators use to examine, treat, and preserve artworks. The Lunder Center has five conservation laboratories and studios equipped to treat paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, sculptures, folk art objects, contemporary crafts, decorative arts, and frames. The Center uses various specialized and esoteric tools, such as hygrothermographs , to maintain optimal temperature and humidity to preserve works of art. Staff from both

1462-559: The first half of the twentieth century. Among the significant artists represented in its collection are Nam June Paik , Jenny Holzer , David Hockney , Richard Hunt , Georgia O'Keeffe , Ching Ho Cheng , John Singer Sargent , Albert Pinkham Ryder , Albert Bierstadt , Frances Farrand Dodge , Edmonia Lewis , Thomas Moran , James Gill , Edward Hopper , John William "Uncle Jack" Dey , Karen LaMonte and Winslow Homer . SAAM describes itself as being "dedicated to collecting, understanding, and enjoying American art. The museum celebrates

1505-402: The name was changed to the National Museum of American Art, to better distinguish it from other federal art museums and to emphasize its focus on American artists. From 1982 to 1988, Charles C. Eldredge served as the museum director, followed by the tenures of Elizabeth Broun and Stephanie Stebich . In January 2000, the museum closed to begin a planned three-year, $ 60-million renovation of

1548-405: The number of artworks from the permanent collection on public view. The purpose of open storage is to allow patrons to view various niche art that is usually not part of a main exhibition or gala special. The Luce Foundation Center features paintings densely hung on screens; sculptures; crafts and objects by folk and self-taught artists arranged on shelves. Large-scale sculptures are installed on

1591-636: The outcome of two articles published in Harper's New Monthly Magazine in the summer of 1893. The volume was strong on the surviving gardens of the Renaissance and Baroque and made no attempt to describe their history or their designers. As well, the influences of Reginald Blomfield 's The Formal Garden in England (1892) and gardens by Gertrude Jekyll illustrated in Country Life further refined Platt's style. (Platt

1634-568: The previous moniker be given to a new institution formed through his donation of a large art collection. By the 1950s, the NCFA still occupied a small space in the Natural History Building. In 1958, Congress finally granted the NCFA a home, the Old Patent Office Building , which was about to be vacated by the U.S. Civil Service Commission . The building would be shared with the planned National Portrait Gallery, with

1677-403: The public through its national education program. It maintains seven online research databases with more than 500,000 records, including the Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture that document more than 400,000 artworks in public and private collections worldwide. Since 1951, the museum has maintained a traveling exhibition program; as of 2013, more than 2.5 million visitors have seen

1720-514: The title SAAM . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SAAM&oldid=1164232056 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Smithsonian American Art Museum The museum provides electronic resources to schools and

1763-882: Was born in New York City , the son of Mary Elizabeth (Cheney) and John Henry Platt. Platt trained as a landscape painter, and as an etcher with Stephen Parrish in Gloucester, Massachusetts , in 1880. He attended the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League in New York, and later, the Académie Julian in Paris , with Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre . At the Paris Salon of 1885, he exhibited his paintings and etchings and gained his first audience. In

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1806-606: Was reportedly fitted with elevator cabs designed by Tiffany Studios. The Building was completed in 1912 and, per the Architectural Record , "Cleveland is to be congratulated upon the possession of one of the handsomest and most distinguished buildings in the country." - H.D.C. In 1919, Platt became a trustee of the American Academy in Rome . He became president of the academy in 1928 and served until his death. He also served on

1849-544: Was unaware of the first history of Italian gardens, W.P. Tuckermann's thorough Die Gartenkunst der italienischen Renaissance-Zeit , Berlin 1884.) The impact of Platt, and of Edith Wharton 's Italian Villas and Their Gardens (1904), can be seen in the shift among stylish Americans from country houses set in lawns with shaped beds of annuals, swept drives and clumps of trees typical of 1885 to houses in settings of gravel-lined forecourts, planted terracing, formal stairs and water features, herbaceous borders and pergolas typical of

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