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Trove: The Collection in Depth

Interior view of multiple artworks hanging on different walls with the text 'Trove: The Collection in Depth" on a wall in the background. In the foreground is a large rectungular scuplture in bright green.
Oct 28, 2011, to Jan 15, 2012

Part of NMWA’s 25th-anniversary celebration, Trove illuminates the breadth of the museum’s renowned collection of art that has been assembled over the past quarter century.

Featured Artists

Anne Truitt

Anne Truitt created colorful wood sculptures that have been linked to Minimalism and the Washington Color School although she resisted such labels.
A black-and-white photograph of a light-skinned adult woman looking straight-on at the viewer. She sports a bowl cut with bangs cut significantly above her brow, and a collared shirt under a dark colored jacket. Behind her are delicate branches with leaves.

Mickalene Thomas

New York-based Mickalene Thomas creates paintings and photographs of African American women that examine, extend, and subvert concepts of female identity and beauty.
A woman with a dark skin tone and short black hair stands behind a large table covered in a painting. Her dark clothing stands out against the rich blues, greens, reds and yellows of the room she is in. Her left hand rests on a stool covered in red paint.