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A close-up photograph of the bottom half of a huma face with a large tongue sticking out and touching three wooden stamp blocks, held up by the person's hand on a totally black background.

This Is a Thing

Recent Gifts to Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, 2020–2025
August 23, 2025 - February 15, 2026
A brick wall bears a sign saying “Kiki’s Back Door.” Waiting on the ground behind a red velvet rope is a row of portrait busts and historical figurative artworks.

Raid the Icebox Now with Nicole Eisenman

Tonight We Are Going Out And We Are All Getting Hammered
November 1, 2019 - May 1, 2021
Colorful wallpaper embellishes the walls of two adjoining rooms containing antique furniture. The foreground pattern includes large vibrant red houses and green architectural details. A chartreuse pattern is adjacent.

Raid the Icebox Now with Pablo Bronstein

Historical Rhode Island Decor
September 20, 2019 - September 20, 2020

Making It In America

October 11, 2013 - February 9, 2014

Distant Climes

18th-Century British Views of Italy
September 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012

Focus on Form

American Furniture from the Museum's Collection
April 1, 1998 - May 21, 2000

Beauty in Hand

The Art of the Fan
June 1 - August 18, 1990

From Bastille to Beaubourg

Two Centuries of French Art from the Permanent Collection
July 7 - August 26, 1989

British Watercolors

September 5 - October 12, 1980

Selection II

British Watercolors and Drawings from the Museum's Collection
April 13 - May 14, 1972

Charles Pendleton House

A tall mahogany cabinet and desk structure with a polished finish, slant-front design, intricate shell-shaped carvings, brass keyholes on all drawers, and a grand arched top decorated with ornamental details.

18th and 19th-Century American Galleries

Paintings by Gilbert Stuart, Furniture by the Goddards and Townsends, Silver by Rhode Island Silversmiths

February 6 - March 31, 1936

Watercolors and Paintings by Winslow Homer, Edmund C. Tarbell, Frank W. Benson

April 1 - May 1, 1898
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European Paintings and Sculpture, ca. 1770 - 1937

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Beauty in Hand

The Art of the Fan
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A Handbook of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

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American Furniture In Pendleton House

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Selection II

British Watercolors and Drawings from the Museum's Collection
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The Pendleton Collection

Master Craft

Robert Emlen, curator at Brown University, and furniture designer, Timothy Philbrick examine the craftsmanship, features, and significance of the Goddard/Townsend desk and bookcase.

Marsden Hartley's Gorges du Loup, Provence

Curator

Over the course of his artistic life, Marsden Hartley sought unmediated

Objects Tell Stories

College Student Voices

A wooden “do not touch” partition usually separates the period room in Pendleton House from the public. But one Monday in June, that partition was removed, and museum staff peopled the room.

Inuit Printmaking and the Concept of Purity

College Student Voices

This article explores the concept of purity in criticisms of Inuit prints by briefly introducing the history of printmaking in Cape Dorset and looking at 1970s Western art historians' expectations of Inuit art.

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