Sound Grammar

Joan Danziger, Into the Magic, 2007, mixed media, 34 × 45 1⁄4 × 32 1⁄2 in. (86.4 × 114.9 × 82.7 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 2015.57

Dorothea Greenbaum, Dancing Class, 1967, bronze, 23 1⁄4 x 6 x 7 5⁄8 in. (59.0 x 15.2 x 19.5 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of David S. Greenbaum, 1974.103

Melanie Bilenker, Dresser Drawer, 2011, hair, paper, walnut, gold, crystal, and brass, 2 x 2 x 1⁄2 in. (5.1 x 5.1 x 1.3 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by the Charles and Margret Craver Withers Bequest, 2013.54.1, © 2011, Melanie Bilenker

Louise Todd Cope, Flax II, ca. 1970s, flax and linen, 27 1⁄2 x 29 3⁄8 in. (70.0 x 74.6 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Helen Williams Drutt English and H. Peter Stern in honor of the 35th anniversary of the Renwick Gallery, 2007.47.8

Jean de Botton, Feu de Joie, 1959, oil on canvas, 29 x 36 1⁄8 in. (73.6 x 91.9 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of the artist, 1979.32.2

Helen Cordero, Singing Maiden, ca. 1984, fired clay, with slip and beeweed, 10 x 5 5⁄8 x 7 1⁄4 in. (25.4 x 14.3 x 18.4 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase made possible by John B. Turner, 1997.124.149

William Harper, Amuletic Beads #3, 1976, gold and silver cloisonné enamel on fine silver and fine gold with 14k gold, 1 1⁄4 x 7 in. (3.2 x 17.8 cm.) diam., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Matthew M. Cohen, 1986.55, © 1987, William Harper

Frank Fleming, Desert Landscape, 1980, unglazed porcelain, overall: 14 1⁄2 x 30 x 21 in. (36.8 x 76.2 x 53.3 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1980.97A-C

Victoria Hutson Huntley, New York Window, 1930, lithograph on paper, image: 8 1⁄8 x 7 in. (20.6 x 17.8 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1975.7.4

Sophie Rivera, Untitled, 1978, printed 2006, gelatin silver print, sheet and image: 48 x 48 in. (121.9 x 121.9 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2011.24.1, © 1978, Sophie Rivera

Paul Burty Haviland, Portrait of a Woman, ca. 1908, platinum print, sheet: 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 1994.91.66