Beyond the Museum: Art on Smith's Campus

floral patterned cloth border surrounding painting on canvas of a figure of nude woman lying on her stomach diagonally across a bed; nude; woman; flower; references to paintings by Manet and Gauguin

A Memory of Emma Amos (1937–2020) and the acquisition of One Who Watches

May 6, 2021

In 2001, the Smith College Black Students Alliance gave a painting, One Who Watches, by Emma Amos to SCMA. Alona C. Wilson, former Curatorial Assistant and Manager of the Cunningham Study Center, recounts her memories of this collaborative… read more

sculpture in two undulating parts that fit together in a cube-like shape; smooth yet textured surface; one half is more green in tone, other half is a richer brown

New Acquisition: Saloua Raouda Choucair

April 9, 2021

Curator of Contemporary Art Emma Chubb discusses sculptor Saloua Raouda Choucair's Dual, a recent acquisition on view in SCMA Then\Now\Next.

Two masked students observing a work in the gallery

Returning to the SCMA Galleries

March 25, 2021

Ariella Heise ‘22 recounts her first visit to SCMA since the galleries closed a year ago.

landscape; the sky is dark with billowing clouds, small people and livestock are visible at the fore of the wide, flat land; low collections of buildings can be made out on the horizon

Divine Nature: Two Dutch painted landscapes side by side, part I

February 18, 2021

Henriette Kets de Vries discusses two paired Dutch landscape paintings from the Then\Now\Next exhibition. This week, part one with Jan van Goyen's Landscape View Of Rijnland (1647).

With his left hand, a man holds the head of one man kneeling, bound man; with his right hand he holds a sword above the head of another, who appears to hold his arm still; other figures watch from behind rows of pink pillars; red and white tiled floor and black arched doorway on the back wall

A Pair of Paintings in SCMA Then\Now\Next

January 21, 2021

One of my favorite pairings from 'SCMA Then\Now\Next' is separated by nearly five centuries: a Cubist painting by Picasso and a small Renaissance panel painting.