Sound Grammar

Listen/purchase: Abacus by Florence Dore

Chuck Close, Self Portrait, 2000, color screenprint on paper, 58 1⁄2 x 48 1⁄4 in. (148.6 x 122.6 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 2000.53, © 2000, Chuck Close

Michael Crocker, Melvin Crocker, Jug with Rattlesnake, 1994, fired and glazed clay, 12 5⁄8 x 9 3⁄4 x 10 5⁄8 in. (32.1 x 24.8 x 27.0 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase, 1997.124.152

Nathan Cabot Hale, Wheel of Life, 1968, cast and welded nickel silver on wood base, 24 x 13 1⁄4 x 9 1⁄4 in. (61.0 x 33.7 x 23.5 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation, 1985.30.25

George Herms, Coffee Table Book with Blue Marble, 1990, mixed media assemblage, 19 1⁄2 x 20 x 9 in. (49.5 x 50.9 x 22.8 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Edith S. and Arthur J. Levin, 2005.5.40

Paul Bogatay, Javanese Mother and Child, 1935, glazed ceramic, 22 x 6 7⁄8 x 5 1⁄4 in. (55.9 x 17.5 x 13.4 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Henrietta Cunningham Bogatay, Todd Bogatay, and Lucia Bogatay, 1988.94.1

Melvin Lindquist, Untitled, 1972, maple, 7 x 51⁄2 in. diam. (17.8 x 14.0 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Judith and Jonathan Knight, 2003.67.1

James Lechay, Self-Portrait with Cat, 1959, oil on canvas, 60 1⁄2 x 46 1⁄8 in. (153.8 x 117.0 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 1975.37

Costantino Nivola, Two Beds, 1963, color lithograph on paper, sheet and image: 29 x 22 in. (73.7 x 55.9 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Arnold Elser, 1981.154.75

Fiske Boyd, Concept, 1951, woodcut on paper, image: 12 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄8 in. (30.7 x 23.3 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1967.132.3

Earl H. Reed, Dune Shore, 1909, etching, 4 x 6 in. (10.2 x 15.2 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chicago Society of Etchers, 1935.13.412