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Tinker Tinker: Printmakers at Work, National Gallery of Art

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National Gallery of ArtNational Mall

Tinker Tinker: Printmakers at Work

Upcoming19 December 2026 – 13 June 2027Free

An intimate look at how artists like Pablo Picasso, Mary Cassatt, and Rembrandt experimented, revised, and problem-solved through printmaking. West Building.

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A print lets an artist change a line and pull another sheet. The National Gallery follows Rembrandt, Cassatt and Picasso through those revisions, so you see the decisions as well as the finished image.

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Installation view of Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen at the Hirshhorn Museum

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The curved Kasota limestone exterior of the National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall in Washington, DC

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Tinker Tinker: Printmakers at WorkNational Gallery of Art
Free and Independent: A Celebration of the DeclarationCourtesy of National Archives Museum
Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
Adam Pendleton: Love, QueenPeio Erroteta / Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
National Gallery of Artajay_suresh / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
National Archives MuseumDavid Samuel (Hellodavey1902) via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
National Air and Space Museumajay_suresh via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture GardenGryffindor, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
National Museum of the American IndianCarol M. Highsmith / Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain

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