RENWICK GALLERY

The Renwick Gallery is part of the Smithsonian system.  It is a smaller gallery, located only a couple of blocks from the White House, that features modern art.  The gallery is up a flight of stairs on the building's second level.  Here is a shot looking back down the stairs.

A featured piece in one of the rooms was a sculpture of a nude that I thought might be from the classical Greek era.   I took several shots of the piece, looking for a proper background.  But I had been fooled.

This was not an original but was a copy of a copy.  The original piece, which is located in the National Art Gallery, was created in the 1840s in the manner of the classic Greek tradition, but as a sort of protest of the fact that many women had been held as slaves.  The original model had been wrapped in chains, but the chains were missing from this replica, which was made in 2015 with the use of a 3-D printer.  A close inspection revealed the layers of acrylic used in the fabrication.

Following were some other pieces in the collection that caught my eye.

This last piece was entitled Apocalypse 1942.  Note the Hitler figure.

Finally was a large ceiling piece that proved difficult to photograph.  This was the better of the shots that I got.

I would recommend the gallery to anyone who is in the neighborhood of the White House and has an interest in modern art.

John