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Made in the USA

American Masters from The Phillips Collection, 1850–1970

Exhibition

$12 for adults; $10 for students as well as visitors 62 and over; free for members and visitors 18 and under.

Arthur Dove, Red Sun, 1935

AMERICAN FIRSTS AT THE PHILLIPS

Duncan Phillips was among the courageous few who advocated passionately for those artists who made something original and American out of the modernist spirit. Since opening in 1921, The Phillips Collection has brought hundreds of these artists to the attention of the American public achieving numerous firsts in the process:

FIRST WORKS TO ENTER A MUSEUM

Milton Avery, Winter Riders (1929), acquired 1929
David Burliuk, Farm at Bear Mountain (1925), acquired 1929
James Ormsbee Chapin, Emmett Marvin, Farmer (1925), acquired 1926
Preston Dickinson, Along the River (undated) and Winter, Harlem River (undated), acquired 1923
Arthur G. Dove, Golden Storm (1925) and Waterfall (1925), acquired 1926
Lee Gatch, Highlanders (1933), acquired 1941
Sam Gilliam, Red Petals (1967), acquired 1967
John D. Graham, Blue Bay and Interior (1926), Blue Bay (1927), Iron Horse (1927), and Mysteria 2 (1927), acquired 1927
Stefan Hirsch, Farmyard (1923), Mill Town (c. 1925), and New York, Lower Manhattan (1921), acquired 1925
Jacob Kainen, Street Corner (1941), acquired 1942
John Kane, Across the Strip (1929), acquired 1930
Morris Kantor, Union Square (1928), acquired 1930
Bernard Karfiol, Boy (undated), acquired 1925
Karl Knaths, Geranium in Night Window (1922), acquired 1926
Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series (1940–41), odd panels acquired 1942
Man Ray, The Black Tray (1914), acquired 1927
Peppino Mangravite, Political Exiles (c. 1928), acquired 1928
Grandma Moses, Cambridge Valley (1942), acquired 1942
Kenneth Noland, Inside (1950), acquired 1951
Georgia O’Keeffe, My Shanty, Lake George (1922) and Pattern of Leaves (1923), acquired 1926
Alfonso Ossorio, Five Brothers (1950), acquired 1951
Charles Sheeler, Skyscrapers (1922), acquired 1926
John Sloan, Clown Making Up (1910), acquired 1919
Niles Spencer, Gray Buildings (1925), acquired 1925
Rufino Tamayo, Mandolins and Pineapples (1930), acquired 1930
Max Weber, High Noon (1925), acquired 1925
James Lesesne Wells, Journey to Egypt (1931), acquired 1931 

FIRST ONE-PERSON MUSEUM EXHIBITION

Milton Avery, 1943
Preston Dickinson, 1931
Richard Diebenkorn (East Coast), 1961
Lee Gatch, 1946
Sam Gilliam, 1967
John D. Graham, 1929
Bernard Karfiol, 1925
Karl Knaths, 1930
Jacob Lawrence, 1942
Ernest Lawson, 1925
George Luks, 1926
John Marin, 1929
Jerome Myers, 1926
Joseph Solman, 1949
Theodoros Stamos, 1950
Maurice Sterne, 1926
Augustus Vincent Tack, 1924
Bradley Walker Tomlin, 1955
Harold Weston, 1930 

FIRST ONE-PERSON MUSEUM EXHIBITION IN WASHINGTON, DC

Sam Francis, 1958
Walt Kuhn, 1932 

FIRST MUSEUM RETROSPECTIVE

Arthur G. Dove, 1937
Marsden Hartley, 1943

FIRST MUSEUM EXHIBITION

Robert Gates, 1932
George Luks, 1926
Joseph Solman, 1949

Exhibition Support

Presented by Altria Group Inc.

Generous support is provided by The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts.

Brought to you by the Made in the USA Committee: The Lichtenberg Family Foundation and Linda Lichtenberg Kaplan, B. Thomas Mansbach, Dr. and Mrs. Ronald A. Paul, and Dina and George Perry