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Rondinone, acclaimed contemporary Swiss artist, selects works by Eilshemius from his private collection and the Phillips’s permanent collection for One-on-One presentation WASHINGTON, DC—The Phillips Collection presents Ugo Rondinone / Louis Eilshemius, a One-on-One exhibition that focuses on the intersections of poetry and nature in visual art. For the sixth edition of One-on-One, acclaimed contemporary Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone (b. 1964, Brunnen, Switzerland) presents his large-scale forest landscape paintings, a selection of poems on paper, and diary paintings in dialogue with over 50

Showcasing the museum’s historic and ongoing support of living artists, the exhibition features recent contemporary acquisitions presented in dialogue with cornerstones of the permanent collection. WASHINGTON, DC—The Phillips Collection presents Breaking It Down: Conversations from the Vault , an exhibition showcasing works from the permanent collection that emphasizes the museum’s historic and ongoing dedication to championing living artists. Featuring over 90 works, including paintings, works on paper, photographs, and sculpture, the exhibition presents an in-depth look at artists who are

Oil on canvas 12 1/8 x 14 in.; 30.7975 x 35.56 cm.; Framed: 19 7/8 in x 21 3/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 50.48 cm x 55.24 cm x 5.72 cm Acquired by 1926

Conceived specifically for The Phillips Collection, Lee Boroson’s Lunar Bower engages the ceiling of the museum’s Vrandenburg Café. Panels of silky and woolen fabric in subdued colors are sewn together and stretched across the space, suggesting an ethereal, moon-filled sky reminiscent of many of Albert Pinkham Ryder’s paintings from The Phillips Collection. Inspired by Ryder’s moody and poetic, intense and expressive work, Boroson has imbued the Phillips’s café with a moonlit radiance that directly relates to the lustrous effect of Ryder’s paintings from the 1880–90s, such as Moonlit Cove

The Phillips Collection has celebrated American art and artists since it opened to the public in 1921. From the outset, Duncan Phillips intended that this gallery in the nation’s capital was to be a champion for the country’s artists. He devoted his life to finding, fostering, and collecting the very best of American art, particularly the work of living artists guided by their individual visions, rather than by popular trends. Over the course of 50 years Phillips built a world-class collection of nearly 2,000 works of modern art of which 1,400 were American, most of them acquired while the

Artist Luca Buvoli creates digitally based tragicomic book WASHINGTON, DC—The Phillips Collection launches its first digital Intersections project, Picture: Present, by Italian-born, New York-based artist Luca Buvoli, building on the contemporary art series in which artists are invited to create new work in dialogue with the Phillips’s collection and architecture.Picture: Present is part of the artist’s ongoing series Astrodoubt and The Quarantine Chronicles that features tragicomic visual narratives commenting on the current covid-19 health and social crisis. The 12 scenes from Picture