Smithsonian Magazine
Inventory
1974
December
- Opening of the
Smithsonian's Hirschhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
- Folk Toys from West
Virginia
1975
April
- Edward S. Curtis portrays
classic images of Indians
- Scythian goldwork from
Russia
May
- Diversity at the
Smithsonian's folk festival
- Story-telling statuettes of
John Rogers, 19th century people's artist
- Ingenious techniques to
remodel bathrooms
- The art of
Puppetry
July
- Restoring
prairies
- Rock paintings in the
Sahara
- Shinto religion of
Japan
- Landscape into
art
September
- Preserving
downtowns
- How artists restored the
nation's collection of patent models when thousands were lost in a
fire
- Thomas Cole and landscape
painting
November
- Ellen Terry, queen of the
English stage
- Travel in colonial
times
- the Hopi
heritage
- Molas, needlework folk art
of Cuna Indians
- Curtis Ford's sculptures of
Old West
1976
March
- National Theater of the
Deaf
- Chinese peasant
painters
- Model demos of
Revolutionary War soldiers
- Environmental mural at
Field Museum
- Hair Jewelry
April
- New York in 1924
- a Fashionable
cemetery
- Virginia folk
music
- Weathervane folk
art
May
- 1876 Philadelphia
Centennial exhibit
- Immigrant
artists
- An underwater
band
September
- 2 century panorama of
American sculpture
- Totem poles of the
Northwest Coastal Indians
- scarecrows as folk
art
October
- Karl Bodmer
- Post office as the heart of
a village
- Neon as an art
form
- Art by blacks developed
during the days of slavery
1977
February
- The statue of Lincoln in
the Lincoln Memorial
- les Lalanne's amusing
sculptures
- Illustrating Pope's
translation of Homer
March
- the sculpture of David
Smith in natural settings
July
- Mathew Brady, Civil War
photographer (Part I)
- Wall size history of the
Russian revolution
- Relics of the Indus
culture
August
1978
January
- World Trade Center
architecture and art
- Artist Michael Singer who
uses nature's materials out-of-doors to create art
- Automatic music machines
down through the ages
April
- Artist Isamu Noguchi and
his 3 dimensional works of art
- William Bullock's Egyptian
Hall museum
May
1979
February
- The artist Robert Tatin
shows off the museum he built
- Architects building
underground
- Major American artists de
Kooning, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, and
Robert Rauschenberg
March
- Rodeos and folk
heroes
- Kathakali theater in
India
- Blacks who were loyal to
Dixie during Civil War
April
- The Peale Family
- Mike Fink
- First Western States
Biennial Exhibition
July
- Louis Kahn and modern
architecture
- Zany kinetic
sculpture
1988
October
- Edgar Degas - artistry of
motion
- Henry Mercer - teacher,
tile maker, archaeologist and collector of tools
- Audio kinetic
sculptures
- Architects new interest in
stone
1989
January
- Persian and Indian
paintings
- Beatrix Potter
- Francisco Goya
October
- Greek revivalist buildings
in U.S.
- Items from the American
Indian
- Frederic Church's
landscapes
1991
May
- Robert Rauschenberg's
work
- Oaxacan artists in
Mexico
- the nation's
barbershops
1992
November
- Vermont's grass roots
art
- Pictorial history of Great
Plains Indian Life
- Modern mythology
- Jeeps in war
1993
February
- Puppets and Masks to
explore myths, nightmares, dreams
- Native American
dances
- The persuasiveness of
maps
March
- Bluegrass music
- Luis Jimenez and his
sculpture (El Vaquero)
- Topiary
April
- Holocaust Museum in
Washington, D.C.
- Poster Power to the
people
- National Historic
Landmarks
June
- 1893 Chicago World's
Fair
- Step design down through
history
- Jean Debuffet's art - art
that can make people laugh
July
- Artifacts from the
Agora
- The art of the auto
design
- anti-graffiti network in
Philadelphia
- What would schoolrooms
belonging to artists look like?
August
- Navajo code talkers of
World War II
- Ralph Fasanella's paintings
of the American labor movement
- the new postal
museum
- Feng shui
December
- Anasazi ruins
- the Louvre
- Hopping John and
celebrating the new year
1997
February
- Cleopatra
- Sculpture from "found"
objects
- Old radio sets
March
- Storytelling
- Women photographers
(Dorothea Lange, Margaret Bourke-White, etc.)
May
- Charles
Burchfield
- America's monuments and
controversy
1998
March
- Prairie Dogs
- Richard Diebenkorn's art
uses lines and planes to convey the surroundings