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Smith College Museum of Art.

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Lilly standing in a black and white tile bathroom and pulling a white, amorphous full-body suit up and over their head.

Welcome Lilly Watson, Our New Assistant Museum Educator

Hello everyone! My name is Lilly Watson (they/them) and I am the new Post Baccalaureate Assistant Museum Educator here at SCMA.

Mary Cassatt: The Fitting

European collectors and artists alike became fascinated by what they viewed as the novelty of Japanese art.
woman with hair in a bun, wearing a dress and reflected in a mirror behind her

Animal Locomotion

Muybridge’s work revolutionized the way scientists studied locomotion and physiology.
two rows of images of man riding horse; each image is at a slightly different stage in the horse's run

Paper + New People

Big news for the Cunningham Center: Julie Warchol, our 2012-2013 Curatorial Fellow, has started her M.A. in Modern Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago!
girl with brown hair and bangs standing in front of an Italian cathedral

Eye on the Street: Garry Winogrand

Winogrand created a multitude of frank and honest photographic studies that explore how people interact with their social environment.
dark interior, men in tuxedos and bow-ties dancing, in the center is a woman in white halter dress with jeweled earrings and short blond hair

James Turrell: Deep Sky

James Turrell’s installations – sky drawings, light projections, and “skyspaces” – are artworks made for both nature lovers and stargazers.
abstract of a night sky with stars and mountain in black ink

Fred Sandback

Sandback’s yarn constructions are essentially drawings in space – free-floating lines which have jumped beyond the confines of paper.
two thin, white diagonal lines in center of blue-green paper

Walton Ford and a Trip to Wingate Studios

This past spring, my advanced printmaking class took a field trip to Peter Pettengill’s professional intaglio workshop and publisher, Wingate Studio in southwestern New Hampshire.
art studio, group of people standing around a printing press

Vija Celmins: Always on the Surface

This work is one of Celmins’ earliest attempts at printmaking and has been called “one of the finest and scarcest American prints of the 1970s.”
close up view of ocean waves in black and white

Curiouser and Curiouser

The poster features contrasting neon colors layered over one another and photographs of iconic Alice in Wonderland imagery. One does not need any drugs to feel the full effect of his hallucinogenic style.
pink, white, blue and purple, large checked floor receding into a doorway, with scattered playing cards, mushroom in lower left, bottle in lower right with DRINK ME on label, chessman at mid left and another bottle with DRINK ME on its label, white rabbit in center sitting up with pink eye, the wall around the doorway is made up of camouflage squiggles in pink and blue with KEEP YOUR HEAD in purple appearing through the pattern

Thomas Cornell's French Revolutionary Portraits

The SCMA’s Cunningham Center for the Study of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs has in its collection a set of etchings that artist Thomas Cornell completed for the Northampton-based Gehenna Press, run by Leonard Baskin, in 1964.
Bust portrait of man with short hair, looking to his left

Munio Makuuchi

Like all of Makuuchi’s visual works, "On Boy’s Day" relates directly to his life history.
landscape with sun at upper left, large arch of water with two salmon at lower left and three at right, top one arching back toward top center image
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