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Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

U.S. National Celebrated Landmark
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Renwick Gallery is located in Central Washington, D.C.

Renwick Gallery

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Renwick Gallery is located in the District of Columbia

Renwick Gallery

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Renwick Gallery is located in the United States

Renwick Gallery

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Location 1661 Pennsylvania Artery NW
Washington, D.C.
Coordinates 38°53′55.92″N 77°2′22.01″W  /  38.8988667°Northward 77.0394472°Westward  / 38.8988667; -77.0394472 Coordinates: 38°53′55.92″N 77°two′22.01″W  /  38.8988667°N 77.0394472°West  / 38.8988667; -77.0394472
Built 1859–1873
Architect James Renwick, Jr.
Architectural mode 2nd Empire[2]
NRHP referenceNo. 69000300[1]
Added to NRHP March 24, 1969

The Renwick Gallery is a branch of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, located in Washington, D.C., and focuses on American craft and decorative arts from the 19th to the 21st century. It is housed in a National Historic Landmark building that was begun in 1859 on Pennsylvania Avenue and originally housed the Corcoran Gallery of Art (now 1 cake from the White Firm and beyond the street from the Old Executive Part Building). When it was built in 1859, it was known as "the American Louvre".

History [edit]

Epitome of the Corcoran Gallery from c.  1884–1888 showing the lost sculpture niches and historic first floor windows.

The Renwick Gallery edifice was originally built to exist Washington, D.C.'s offset art museum and to house William Wilson Corcoran's collection of American and European art. The building was designed by James Renwick, Jr. and finally completed in 1874.[3] [four] It is located at 1661 Pennsylvania Avenue NW.[5] Renwick designed it after the Louvre's Tuileries addition.[vi] At the time of its structure, information technology was known as "the American Louvre".[7] [8]

The building was nigh completion when the Civil War broke out and was seized past the U.South. Army in August 1861 as a temporary armed forces warehouse for the records and uniforms for the Quarter Master Full general'southward Corps.[9] In 1864, Full general Montgomery C. Meigs converted the building into his headquarters office.[9]

On May x, 1869, the building was returned to Corcoran, and, on January 19, 1874, the Corcoran Gallery of Fine art opened to the public.[iii] [9] The gallery quickly outgrew the infinite and relocated to a new building nearby in 1897.[10] Starting in 1899, the building housed the federal Court of Claims.[3] By the 1950s, in demand of more space, the Court of Claims proposed to demolish the edifice, however, it was saved from demolition by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in 1963.[four] [6] [8] In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson and Secretarial assistant of the Smithsonian Southward. Dillon Ripley, proposed that the building exist turned over to the Smithsonian.[three] [nine] [11]

In 1965, President Johnson signed an executive order transferring the Renwick edifice to the Smithsonian Institution for utilise every bit a "gallery of arts, arts and crafts and blueprint."[3] Afterward a renovation under the direction of Lloyd East. Herman[12] information technology opened in 1972 equally the home of the Smithsonian American Art Museum'southward contemporary craft program.[3] [xi] The Renwick Gallery is at present a branch of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, housing the museum'southward collection of decorative fine art and crafts.[4] [6]

Closure for 2013–2015 renovation [edit]

Renwick Gallery closed Dec ix, 2013, in order to allow a major renovation of the historic structure. The building was slightly damaged during the 2011 Washington D.C. earthquake, and the construction process required reworking of the original infrastructure.[13] The museum reopened on November 13, 2015 with an exhibition entitled Wonder featuring site-specific installation past ix artists.[14] [15] The architectural renovation was led by Westlake Reed Leskosky, a Cleveland, Ohio–based architecture and engineering firm[16] and construction was overseen by Consigli Construction Co. of Milford, Massachusetts.[xvi] Fundraising for the renovation began in 2013, and was completed in June 2014 when local financier and philanthropist David Rubenstein donated $5.four meg toward the project. Smithsonian officials renamed the gallery's K Salon in Rubenstein's award.[16]

The renovation included replacing all HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and fire-suppression systems; upgrades to security, phone, and data systems (including Wi-Fi installation throughout the building); restoring the original window configuration; restoring two vaulted ceilings on the second floor; reconfiguring the basement for staff offices and workshops;[xvi] and adding LED lighting throughout the building.[14] The Renwick's 1000 Salon was as well renovated to create a more than gimmicky event infinite.[2] [7] [xiv] Applied Minds was chosen to create potential concepts for the Grand Salon.[17] The four other firms which competed for the renovation job and made it to the terminal circular merely were not selected were Marlon Blackwell Builder, Studio Odile Decq, Vinci Hamp Architects, and Westlake Reed Leskosky.[two]

Reopening [edit]

The Renwick Gallery opened its doors after renovation on Friday, Nov 13, 2015. Admission is complimentary. The gallery is open daily from 10:00 a.chiliad. to 5:xxx p.thousand.[18]

The first-floor gallery typically featured temporary exhibits that rotated well-nigh twice a yr.[19] 1 commentator said, the crafts displayed "are high art, not everyday objects."[xix] Historically, the second floor 1000 Salon has been one of the most famous art-filled rooms in Washington. For much of the museum's history, it was hung with lxx paintings by 51 American artists, almost of them artworks created between 1840 and 1930, including landscapes, sentimental portraits, and classical themes, too as portraits of tribal Native Americans by George Catlin. Since Nov 2015, the paintings are no longer on display, and the formal curtains, red rug, and red velvet furniture have all been removed. A number of the paintings were moved to the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[20]

Exhibitions [edit]

In 2012, the Renwick Gallery hosted an exhibition called "40 Under 40: Craft Futures", which featured 40 artists in "boundary-pushing interpretations of drinking glass, fiber, ceramic, wood and other materials claiming the traditional process-oriented notion of the craft medium past incorporating performance, interactivity and politics."[21] [22]

The gallery's visitors have almost doubled due to the popularity of the "Wonder" exhibition.[23] In Nov 2015, "Wonder" opened in celebration of the completion of a ii-year renovation of the Renwick Gallery. The exhibition featured 9 major contemporary artists invited to install site-specific works on the theme of wonder in the nine exhibition spaces of the gallery. The artists called were Jennifer Angus, Chakaia Booker, Gabriel Dawe, Tara Donovan, Patrick Dougherty, Janet Echelman, John Course, Maya Lin, and Leo Villareal.[24]

The artists were given freedom to create their installations.[25] Angus' piece, "In the Midnight Garden," featured over 5,000 bugs – beetles, moths, and cicadas[25] – in various patterns in a pinkish room.[26] Booker'south "Bearding Donor" was made up of old tires and stainless steel.[27] Dawe'south "Plexus A1" weaved a rainbow into the heart of i of the Renwick's rooms.[28] Donovan fabricated her installation out of thousands of index cards.[28] Dougherty made his installation, "Shindig," out of willow branches.[29] Echelman based her piece off of images from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that showed the bear on of waves during the 2011 Japan tsunami.[25] Grade reassembled a mold of a hemlock tree over a century year old. The slice is chosen "Eye Fork."[28] Lin chose to map out the Chesapeake Bay using marbles.[26] Villareal's LED chandelier hangs from the peak of the Renwick ceiling.[29]

Since January 2016, over 176,000 people have visited the gallery.[28] The "Wonder" exhibition is popular on social media,[30] and the Renwick has been tagged over 20,000 times on Instagram by users.[28] Wonder airtight afterward eight months and drew 732,000 viewers.[31] It was criticized for existence inconsistent with the Renwick's commitment to American craft.[32]

The Renwick Arts and crafts Invitational is a biennial assessment of contemporary fine arts and crafts.[33] The 2016 exhibition featured works by Steven Young Lee, Kristen Morgin, Jennifer Trask, and Norwood Viviano.[34] Disrupting Craft: Renwick Invitational 2018 featured works by Tanya Aguiñiga, Sharif Bey, Dustin Farnsworth, and Stephanie Syjuco.[35]

Since 2011, the Renwick has hosted a quarterly "Handi-hour," a crafting-themed happy 60 minutes event, inspired by the DIY movement. In addition to craft activities for patrons, the 21+ effect features craft beers selected past Greg Engert of the ChurchKey restaurant and pub in Washington, D.C.[36]

In 2019 the Renwick hosted an augmented reality exhibition past glass creative person Ginny Ruffner and digital collaborator Grant Kirkpatrick titled Reforestation of the Imagination.[37]

Notable artists in the collection [edit]

A number of well-known, critically acclaimed artists had works in the Renwick Gallery'due south collection, as of the Nov 2015 reopening nigh are no longer on display. Among them are:

  • Margaret Boozer'south Eight Red Bowls Maryland terracotta and pine sculpture.[38]
  • Wendell Castle's Ghost Clock cloaks fourth dimension with trompe l'oeil.[3] [4]
  • Dale Chihuly'south famous drinking glass globules float in their sandbox sanctuaries.[iii]
  • Arline Fisch's silverish Trunk Ornament [3]
  • Larry Fuente's Game Fish made from a mounted sailfish and game accessories, such as die, poker chips, domino tiles, Scrabble letters, yo-yos, badminton shuttlecocks and Ping-Pong balls.[iii] [4]
  • Sam Maloof'south furniture[3]
  • Maria Martinez
  • Albert Paley
  • Ginny Ruffner'due south Reforestation of the Imagination (with Grant Kirkpatrick), an augmented reality exhibition.[37]
  • Judith Schaechter's A Little Torcher, a stained-glass cosmos depicting pyromania.[39]
  • Kim Schmahmann's 1993–1999 Bureau of Bureaucracy, which is a "wooden cabinet full of cupboards to nowhere, bottomless drawers, drawers within drawers, subconscious compartments, and more, a wonderful metaphor for the labyrinthine workings of government".[vii]

Encounter likewise [edit]

  • Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel – some other structure in Washington, D.C., designed by James Renwick
  • Smithsonian Establishment Building – another construction in Washington, D.C., designed past James Renwick
  • St. Patrick'due south Cathedral – James Renwick's magnum opus in New York City

References [edit]

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Farther reading [edit]

  • Trapp, Kenneth; Risatti, Howard (1998). Skilled Piece of work: American Craft in the Renwick Gallery . Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN1560988312.

External links [edit]

  • Smithsonian American Art Museum'south official Web site

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