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Watercolor drawing of a thriving nature scene. We look down at a lush tangle of green leafy plant life with bluebells and white primroses. Five shining teal bird's eggs lay in a cozy moss and twig nest in the lower left.

Brief Biography of Jane Ogden

Drawing

Artist Jane Ogden (British, ca. 1845–1928) painted flowers and other still-life subjects in oil and watercolor.

Seeking Visibility

A summer intern reflects on diversity in the museum's Western European galleries and suggesting curatorial strategies for greater visibility

Surprise Endings: Gorham Silver's Mythologique

Curator

This rare example of Gorham's "Mythologique" flatware service was purposefully left unfinished as they are samples, combining elaborate hand-worked detail with mechanized brute force.

Old peasant woman standing, with gloved hands folded across her waist. She's wearing heavy clothing, scarf and hat.

American Drawings and Watercolors

Edwin Austin Abbey's Old Peasant Woman
Curator Drawing

Curator Maureen C. O'Brien discusses American drawings and watercolors in the RISD Museum collection

Drawing of a yard of a cooperage on the banks of the Rhine. a landscape depicted of tan tone of a smooth-surfaced paper.

American Drawings and Watercolors

Albert Bierstadt's Landscape on the Rhine
Curator Drawing

Albert Bierstadt was born in Solingen, Germany, but came to the United States with his family in 1832 and settled with them in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Half-length view of young man in overalls with mouth of jug in his left hand raised to his lips; reins held in his right hand; building visible on horizon beyond field.

American Drawings and Watercolors

Grant Wood's Plowing on Sunday
Curator Drawing

Plowing on Sunday, from about 1934

Two young women standing on deck the Staten Island ferry on its approach to Governors Island. A middle-aged gentleman in a fedora looks towards the downtown skyline in a panorama view across southern tip of Manhattan.

American Drawings and Watercolors

Reginald Marsh
Curator Drawing

Reginald Marsh, the son of American artists Fred Dana Marsh and Alice R

Violets in green foreground, two bare tree trunks in middle distance, trees with foliage on lighter green ground, background and sky, lavender.

American Drawings and Watercolors

Charles Burchfield
Curator Drawing

Five works on paper in the RISD Museum’s collection follow the arc of C

Hidden Beauty

College Studio Notes Artist

Inspired by the European galleries, graphic designer Kelly Walters explores 19th-century notions of exoticism and beauty through the creation of a folded broadsheet poster.

Gallery Guide / Kudzanai Chiurai: Iyeza

Curator

Full tgallery guide from the exhibition Kudzanai Chiurai: Iyeza

Video still from Kudzanai Chiurai, Iyeza

Interview with artist Kudzanai Chiurai

Curator Studio Notes Artist

Curatorial assistant of contemporary art A. Will Brown interviews artist Kudzanai Chiurai about his film "Iyeza"

When Then Is Now

Martin Boyce's Connections to the RISD Museum Collection
Curator

An exploration of the intriguing relationships between works in Martin Boyce's mid-career survey exhibition at the RISD Museum and objects by Alexander Calder, Charles and Ray Eames, and Dan Flavin in the museum's collection.

Ingres Study in Three Parts

Curator

Insights into Ingres's studio practice and clues to his intellectual process

Egungun Atipako—with hand-woven aso ofi textiles. Ibadan, Nigeria. Photo: Bolaji Campbell, 2007

Cloth as Metaphor in Egungun Costumes

Curator

Egungun costumes are usually created from a wide variety of carefully chosen fabrics ranging from exquisite samples of local handwoven aso ofi to exotic fabrics imported from aro

Crafting the Photography for the Book Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion

Portfolio

RISD Museum object photography generally follows typical museum practice: a straightforward approach to framing and lighting with great concern for color fidelity. For *Artist/Rebel/Dandy*, the curators suggested that we go in a different direction.

Seeing the Peacock Feathers

College Student Voices

RISD Museum intern Alicia Valencia (RISD 2015, Furniture) explains how the act of looking closely formed her impressions on Samuel Gragg's Elastic armchair.

Kunneepaumwuw ut Nahhiggananēuck aukéashut

You are standing on Narragansett lands.

The man in this painting lived in the same era and region as some of colonists seen in this gallery.

people on scooters wearing pink and red ponchos

Interview with artist UuDam Tran Nguyen

Curator Student Voices Studio Notes

Editor of publications Amy Pickworth, intern Joanna Cortez, and curatorial assistant of contemporary art A. Will Brown interview UuDam Tran Nguyen about his single channel video Waltz of The Machine Equestrians--The Machine Equestrians (2012).

The Head in Focus

Benin Art and Visual History
How did this get here?

The discovery of these treasures resembles that of a valuable manuscript. They are a new “Codex Africanus,” not written on fragile papyrus, but in ivory and imperishable brass.

229 Felixes

College Student Voices

A summer intern describes her experience delving into the RISD Museum's databases, searching for human elements

Excavation to Exhibition: The Afterlife of Ancient Objects

College From the files Student Voices

An intern explores the history of works from the museum’s ancient collection, tracing the archaeological excavations that brought them to light and into the permanent collection.

“The best portrait Joseph Blackburn [never] painted”

John Singleton Copley’s Portrait of Theodore Atkinson, Jr.
Curator

In the January 1920 Bulletin of the Rhode Island School of Design, RISD Museum director L.

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