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Painter Lewis Cohen and Frank Vincent Diamond begin a day of fishing, Delaware Water Gap, 1908. Frank Vincent Diamond Papers, Smithsonian Archives of American Art.

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Painter Eliot Clark (1883–1980) in Venice on a walking tour of Europe, 1905. Eliot Clark Papers, Archives of American Art.

 

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‘WISH YOU WERE HERE’ AT SMITHSONIAN ARCHIVES w/2 cuts

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art has opened “Wish You Were Here: Artists on Vacation,” an exhibition that presents images of artists escaping from their everyday lives, on view through September 21, at the Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery, Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture.

“Many artists view vacations as a time to get out of the city, to recharge in a new environment with sympathetic souls,” said Liza Kirwin, curator of manuscripts for the Archives of American Art. Getting away, however, does not mean leaving the canvas or sketchbook behind. Artists are always working, Kirwin added, and vacations are habitually regarded as an opportunity to paint, draw and study.

Included in the exhibition are letters, travel journals, sketchbooks, snapshots, passports and postcards from vacationing artists, such as Cecilia Beaux, Sanford Robinson Gifford, John Sloan, Mary Cassatt and others.

The Archives of American Art is dedicated to the collection, preservation and study of papers and other primary records of the history of the visual arts in America. Its collections comprise 16 million items.

The Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture is at Eighth and F Streets NW. For information, www.aaa.si.edu or 212-399-5015.