Art - Overview
The National Museum of American History is not an art museum. But works of art fill its collections and testify to the vital place of art in everyday American life. The ceramics collections hold hundreds of examples of American and European art glass and pottery. Fashion sketches, illustrations, and prints are part of the costume collections. Donations from ethnic and cultural communities include many homemade religious ornaments, paintings, and figures. The Harry T Peters "America on Stone" collection alone comprises some 1,700 color prints of scenes from the 1800s. The National Quilt Collection is art on fabric. And the tools of artists and artisans are part of the Museum's collections, too, in the form of printing plates, woodblock tools, photographic equipment, and potters' stamps, kilns, and wheels.
"Art - Overview" showing 49 items.
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A Billet, Neuvilly
- Description
- Charcoal sketch on textured paper. A shell-torn building with two figures in an opening. A tent appears on the right side, partially obscured by a pillar of the building.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1918
- associated date
- 1917-1918
- associated person
- War Department
- artist
- Peixotto, Ernest Clifford
- ID Number
- AF*25794
- catalog number
- 25794
- accession number
- 64592
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
A Tractor in the Mud, Gièvres
- Description
- Charcoal sketch on paper. A tractor carrying a large load dominates the scene. Tents, buildings, and soldiers in the background.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1918
- associated date
- 1917-1918
- associated person
- War Department
- maker
- Peixotto, Ernest Clifford
- ID Number
- AF*25797
- catalog number
- 25797
- accession number
- 64592
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Afternoon Concert in the Courtyard at Hospital at Langres
- Description
- Pencil sketch on paper. Underneath a stand of trees, a large band plays for a group of men assembled in a courtyard. In the center foreground, a man in a wheelchair listens to the concert. The sketch is attached to heavy card that has a label affixed at the bottom center that reads "AFTERNOON CONCERT IN THE COURTYARD/AT HOSPITAL AT LANGRES/BY E. PEIXOTTO/TRANSFERRED FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT/2957."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1918
- associated date
- 1917-1918
- associated person
- War Department
- artist
- Peixotto, Ernest Clifford
- ID Number
- AF*25799
- catalog number
- 25799
- accession number
- 64592
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
After the Bombardment -- Badon Viller
- Description
- Charcoal sketch depicting the after-effects of the bombardment of Badonviller. An empty street, filled with rubble, is bordered by shell-torn buildings. The sketch is on white paper, which is affixed to a larger piece of heavy white cardboard.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1918
- associated date
- 1917-1918
- associated person
- War Department
- artist
- Peixotto, Ernest Clifford
- ID Number
- AF*25801
- catalog number
- 25801
- accession number
- 64592
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
American Observation Post ... Near Verdun ... Handimont
- Description
- Black and white sketch. A soldier stands at the top of a set of stairs in a shell-torn building. The sketch is done on heavy white card; this is affixed to a larger piece of white cardboard.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1918
- associated date
- 1917-1918
- associated person
- War Department
- maker
- Peixotto, Ernest Clifford
- ID Number
- AF*25802
- catalog number
- 25802
- accession number
- 64592
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
American Soldiers Billeted in Reception
- Description
- Charcoal and ink wash sketch on blue-gray paper. Interior scene. American soldiers billeted in the a room of an old Benedictine Monastery in the Toul Sector. Soldiers engaged in a game of cards. The sketch is matted on heavy white card stock.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1918
- associated date
- 1917-1918
- associated person
- War Department
- artist
- Peixotto, Ernest Clifford
- ID Number
- AF*25803
- catalog number
- 25803
- accession number
- 64592
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
American Troops Descending Avenue President Wilson
- Description
- Pencil and ink wash sketch. The scene is of a group of American soldiers marching in formation in an urban square. One of the soldiers in the march is carrying an American flag. An airplane flies over the city. Washington statue on left. The sketch is on a piece of heavy card stock that is affixed to a piece of cardboard. Underneath the sketch, also attached to the cardboard, is a printed label that reads :"AMERICAN TROOPS DESCENDING AVENUE/PRESIDENT WILSON/Paris, July 4, 1918/BY E. PEIXOTTO/TRANSFERRED FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT/2963."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1918
- associated date
- 1917-1918
- associated person
- War Department
- artist
- Peixotto, Ernest Clifford
- ID Number
- AF*25805
- catalog number
- 25805
- accession number
- 64592
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
American Troops Parading Down Avenue President Wilson
- Description
- Ink wash sketch. American troops marching in a square in the city. A statue of George Washington is in the center of the sketch; Washington is mounted on a horse and has his sword raised in the air. Large buildings and trees in background. Sketch is on white card, which is mounted to a larger piece of heavy cardboard. Also affixed to the cardboard backing is a label that reads: "AMERICAN TROOPS PARADING DOWN/AVENUE PRESIDENT WILSON/Paris, July 4, 1918/BY E. PEIXOTTO/TRANSFERRED FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT/2964."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1918-07-04
- associated date
- 1917-1918
- associated person
- War Department
- artist
- Peixotto, Ernest Clifford
- ID Number
- AF*25806
- catalog number
- 25806
- accession number
- 64592
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
American Trucks in a Side Street Montabaur
- Description
- Charcoal sketch on paper. American army trucks and troops on a street leading through a village. Buildings on either side of street. The sketch is affixed to a larger piece of heavy cardboard. A label under the sketch, on the larger cardboard mount, reads: "AMERICAN TRUCKS IN A SIDE STREET/MONTABAUR/BY E. PEIXOTTO/TRANSFERRED FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT/2965."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1918
- associated date
- 1917-1918
- associated person
- War Department
- artist
- Peixotto, Ernest Clifford
- ID Number
- AF*25807
- catalog number
- 25807
- accession number
- 64592
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
Boundary Bridge Over the Sure, Echternach
- Description
- Charcoal sketch on paper. The sketch is a winter scene of a bridge over a river. Buildings and bare trees on teh far end of bridge (on the right side of the sketch). A label below the sketch on the cardboard mount reads: "BOUNDARY BRIDGE OVER THE SURE/ECHTERNACH/BY E. PEIXOTTO/TRANSFERRED FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT/2970."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1918
- associated date
- 1917-1918
- associated person
- War Department
- artist
- Peixotto, Ernest Clifford
- ID Number
- AF*25812
- catalog number
- 25812
- accession number
- 64592
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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