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5 Fast Facts: Berenice Abbott

Posted: April 21, 2021
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Impress your friends with five fast facts about Berenice Abbott (1898–1991). NMWA’s collection includes 20 of Abbott’s photographs taken between 1925 and 1954.

5 Fast Facts: Yoko Ono

Posted: February 18, 2021
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Happy Birthday to Yoko Ono, who was born on this day in 1933! Impress your friends with five fast facts about the artist, whose work is part of NMWA's collection.
A black-and-white photograph of Yoko Ono in 1969, she wears her black hair long and sits in front of a window. The photo is cropped to her head and she smiles ever so slightly at the camera.

5 Fast Facts: Clementine Hunter

Posted: February 9, 2021
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Impress your friends with five fast facts about African American folk artist Clementine Hunter (1886 or 1887–1998), whose colorful works are in NMWA’s collection.
Rendered in a childlike style, the painting depicts a dark-skinned woman in a blue dress offering a bouquet of red flowers to a photograph of the artist affixed to canvas. The woman stands next to a tree surrounded by red flowers with blue sky and gray clouds above her.

5 Fast Facts: Lorna Simpson

Posted: February 1, 2021
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Impress your friends with five fast facts about artist Lorna Simpson (b. 1960), whose work III (1994) is in NMWA’s collection.
A collage of pop star Rihanna wearing a black bra, skirt, and elaborate black feathered headdress overlaid atop a vintage photograph of the Brooklyn Bridge.

5 Fast Facts: Barbara Kruger

Posted: January 26, 2021
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Happy birthday to Barbara Kruger, who was born on this day in 1945! Impress your friends with five fast facts about the conceptual artist, whose work is part of NMWA's...
A black-and-white photo of a light-skinned woman sitting on a stool in an artist's studio, looking down at a large circular fabric/textile work. She holds a bottle of gesso and a paint brush.

5 Fast Facts: Delita Martin

Posted: October 19, 2020
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Impress your friends with five fast facts about Delita Martin, whose work is featured in the online exhibition Delita Martin: Calling Down the Spirits.
A mixed-media work shows two seated figures facing each other; the first woman sits cross-legged staring confidently out at viewer while the second woman is masked and gazes elsewhere. In the background blue abstract shapes with two orange orbs fill the space between them.

5 Fast Facts: Ruth Bernhard

Posted: September 1, 2020
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Impress your friends with five fast facts about photographer Ruth Bernhard (1905–2006).
A black-and-white photo that is taken through a rain-spotted screen. Past the screen, the out-of-focus outline of a tree is visible, with a narrow trunk and many wayward branches that expand into a large canopy.

5 Fast Facts: Elizabeth Catlett

Posted: August 18, 2020
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Impress your friends with five fast facts about Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012), whose work is on view in NMWA’s collection galleries.
A black-and-white print of two dark-skinned individuals in profile, facing left. The person in the background is an older adult wearing a brimmed hat, and in the foreground and slightly to the right is a young child with coarse hair cut close to the head.

5 Fast Facts: Kirsten Justesen

Posted: July 22, 2020
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Impress your friends with five fast facts about Kirsten Justesen, whose work is on view in NMWA’s collection galleries.
A black-and-white self-portrait of a light-skinned older woman with shoulder-length blonde hair who lays on the middle shelf of a large wooden cabinent. She is in a relaxed fetal position; one hand props her head up and the other is draped over the shelf. Above her a collection of tiny statues are arranged by size, on the shelf below her are a tea pot and two boxes.

5 Fast Facts: Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau

Posted: July 8, 2020
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Impress your friends with five fast facts about Elizabeth Gardner Bouguereau, whose work is on view in NMWA’s collection galleries.
Realistic painting depicts a light-skinned young man with dark curly hair, wearing a white tunic, set before distant mountains. He is kneeling victoriously atop a fearsome dead lion, clutching a serene lamb his right arm and gesturing heavenward with his left arm.