This exhibition focuses on nocturnes, or rendered night scenes, from the Carter’s works-on-paper collection, highlighting the night as a constant source of artistic inspiration from the still quiet of abandoned places to the bright lights of the bustling city.

This exhibition highlights Samuel F.B. Morse’s iconic painting Gallery of the Louvre. Filled with miniature reproductions of the Louvre’s finest treasures, this painting is a signal work of transatlantic exchange intended to connect American audiences with great European artworks.

Horizon Lines uses visual perspective to remind us that our experience of space and our relationship to our environment—whether the sea, land, or constructed urban landscape—shifts depending on our different points of view.

This exhibition of drawings spanning the 19th and 20th centuries represents the evolution of the medium from preliminary outlines for other artistic media to a modern means of self-expression in its own right.

In the 1960s, activist Chicano artists forged a remarkable history of printmaking that remains vital today. ¡Printing the Revolution!, organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, explores the rise of Chicano graphics within these early social movements and the ways in which Chicanx artists have since advanced innovative printmaking practices attuned to social justice.