#artistsmodels

Are you Fierce? Can you smize with the best of them? Compare your skills to this roundup of Top Artists' Models on our blog, and if you have what it takes, submit a pic to us on Instagram or Twitter using the hashtag #strikeapose, or show us your moves in person at a free gallery talk, this Friday, July 11th at 1pm in the Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery. Tyra would be proud.

Who is that mysterious cloaked man? Read our blog post today to get the whole story.

In fact, enjoy two artists' models-themed blog posts for the price of one today, on our blog AND on the Smithsonian American Art Museum's blog Eye-Level. And be sure to join us for a free gallery talk, June 20 at 4:30 p.m. in the Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery. This talk will immediately precede Drawing at Dusk!, a Smithsonian American Art Museum program offering the opportunity to sketch from a live model in the Luce Center (americanartluce) within the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture.

A show by Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art considers the work of the model in helping create art.

Often artists need look no further than their own families for suitable artists' models. Dahlov Zorach Ipcar (seated, lower left in top photo), daughter of Marguerite and William Zorach, served as a model for both her parents, as seen in the painting (by Marguerite) and sculpture (by William) here. To see more artists' kids whose chores included modeling, visit our exhibit Artists and Their Models.

William and Marguerite Zorach with their children Tessim and Dahlov, and Bertram Hartman in Robinhood Cove, Maine, 1929 / unidentified photographer. Zorach family papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Reproduction of Marguerite Zorach's painting Child with cat, not after 1928 / unidentified photographer. C. J. Bulliet papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Ever wonder how our exhibits are installed? The short answer is: through the hard work of the Smithsonian's Office of Exhibits Central. For a slightly longer answer and some fun behind-the-scenes shots (lasers!) of our Artists and Their Models exhibit coming into being, see this post on OEC's blog.