Sound Grammar

Henry Brintnell Bounetheau, Jean François Favré, Napoleon Bonaparte, ca. 1850, watercolor on ivory, sight 3 3⁄4 x 4 3⁄8 in. (9.5 x 11.1 cm) oval, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Henry Du Pré Bounetheau, 1946.3.20

Henry Colton Shumway, James Morris, ca. 1845, watercolor on ivory, sight 4 5⁄8 x 3 1⁄2 in. (11.7 x 8.9 cm) rectangle, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund, 1963.9.6

St. Eom, Medallion with Head, 1970s, paint on concrete, 4 1⁄4 x 22 in. (10.8 x 55.9 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 1997.124.83

Mose Tolliver, Untitled (Box), ca. 1970, painted wood, 12 × 8 × 5 in. (30.5 × 20.3 × 12.7 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mitchell D. Kahan in memory of the artist, 2017.27

Gwen Maxwell-Williams, We Are Not There Yet, 2012, cotton fabric suede, organza, and cotton batting, 47 5⁄8 × 41 1⁄2 in. (121.0 × 105.4 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Fleur S. Bresler, 2023.40.20

Ed Garman, No. 260, 1942, oil on fiberboard, 30 x 30 in. (76.2 x 76.2 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Patricia and Phillip Frost, 1986.92.26

Nellie Mae Rowe, My Trip to New York, 1979, crayon and ballpoint pen and ink on paper, sheet and image: 17 x 14 in. (43.2 x 35.5 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak, 1981.136.7

Rudolph Bundasz, View of Section of Camp Roosevelt from Officers Quarters, 1935, watercolor, ink and charcoal on paper, 15 x 22 in. (38.1 x 55.9 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1965.18.83

Evylena Nunn Miller, Where Desert and Mountain Meet, before 1954, oil on canvas, sight: 29 1⁄2 x 35 1⁄2 in. (75 x 90.2 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph S. Wade, 1954.10.1

Dean Fausett, Farmlands near Taos, n.d., watercolor and opaque watercolor, sight 19 3⁄8 x 28 in. (49.2 x 71.1 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of International Business Machines Corporation, 1969.136

Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran, Natalie at Ten, 1887, oil on canvas, 31 3⁄8 x 23 1⁄2 in. (79.7 x 59.7 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Laura Dreyfus Barney and Natalie Clifford Barney in memory of their mother, Alice Pike Barney, 1972.181.2