Maya Lin
Systematic Landscapes
through July 12, 2009

The Corcoran Gallery of Art will present the exhibition Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes—a dramatic installation of major new works by this renowned contemporary artist and architect. Lin addresses notions of landscape and geologic phenomena in her art. Organized by the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, this exhibition explores how people perceive and experience the landscape in a time of heightened technological influence and environmental awareness.

William Eggleston: Democratic Camera; Photographs and Video 1961–2008
Through September 20, 2009

This exhibition presents a retrospective of images by William Eggleston, who pioneered a new era in color photography with his extraordinary pictures of familiar, everyday subjects. Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art in association with Haus der Kunst in Munich, the exhibition brings together more than 125 photographs, made over five decades, by this groundbreaking artist.

Recent Acquisitions in the Corcoran Collection
through october 4, 2009

This exhibition focuses on the Corcoran’s recent acquisitions of modern and contemporary art. These works have entered the collection over the past two years through museum purchase and the generosity of individual patrons and foundations.

Nature as Nation
19th-Century American Landscapes
from the Collection
on view now

This permanent collection installation features highlights of the Corcoran’s distinguished holdings of 19th-Century American landscape painting, one of the best such collections in the world.

American Paintings from the Collection
Through September 6, 2009

Displaying iconic works from the Corcoran’s historic American collection, this exhibition represents almost one hundred years of American history from the Civil War to World War II. The paintings depict the social, political and economic changes of the period while simultaneously illustrating profound stylistic and philosophical shifts in American art.

American Bronzes from the Corcoran Gallery of Art
On view now

This installation of more than 30 bronze sculptures from the Corcoran’s world-renowned collection of American art highlights works dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries by such masters of the medium as Elie Nadelman, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and Alexander Phimister Proctor (sculptor of Washington’s Buffalo Bridge).  Works by women sculptors are a particular strength of the Corcoran’s collection, including those by Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, Abastenia St. Leger Eberle, Anna Hyatt Huntington, and Bessie Potter Vonnoh. The exhibition also features popular favorites such as western bronzes by Frederic Remington, a Civil War group by John Rogers, and sculptures by artists better known for their paintings, such as Thomas Eakins and John Singer Sargent.

in the college corridor

Neighborhood Watch
through august 9

The Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design presents Neighborhood Watch, an exhibition of vintage and contemporary photographs by artist and Corcoran faculty member Claudia Smigrod. In Neighborhood Watch, Smigrod revisits the subjects she photographed for her 1989 exhibition, Portraits of Innocence, a documentation of the purity of childhood. Through a recent resurvey of the original Portraits of Innocence participants, Smigrod records the evolution of 20 individuals as she captures them within their native environments in Alexandria, VA.