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Gwen John: Strange Beauties
Upcoming30 July 2027 – 28 November 2027$16
The most comprehensive survey of Gwen John (1876-1939) in over 40 years, uniting her quiet oil portraits with rarely seen drawings and watercolours from Wales to Paris.
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- Gwen John: Strange BeautiesPhoto by Lee Stalsworth
- Shahzia Sikander: The Last Post© 2025 Shahzia Sikander, courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly; Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Nick Cave: Mammoth© Nick Cave; photo by Ron Blunt Studio, courtesy Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Much Here Is Beautiful: Photography Surveys of the U.S. Bicentennial© 1975 Ted Wathen; Smithsonian American Art Museum, transfer from the National Endowment for the Arts
- National Museum of Women in the Artsajay_suresh via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
- Smithsonian American Art MuseumFrogvixen / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- National Portrait GalleryDifference engine, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Renwick GalleryIngfbruno / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- National Archives MuseumDavid Samuel (Hellodavey1902) via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0