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Phillips Flashback: January 6, 1957
Brochure for exhibition. From the Phillips Collection Archives. A modest exhibition, Paintings by Tomlin, Rothko, Okada opens in The Print Rooms on the ground level of The Phillips Gallery and runs...
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Phillips Flashback: February 1963
Entrance to the 1960 annex with Giacometti exhibition, 1963. Photo from Phillips Collection Archives. Giacometti opens on February 7, 1963, comprising 37 sculptures. From this show, Monumental Head...
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Phillips Flashback: “…the largest & most luxurious vessel afloat had gone down…”
Phillips used this 1912 yearbook journal as his travel journal for his three month trip abroad which coincided with the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Journal HH, The Phillips Collection Archives As the...
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Phillips Flashback: May 28, 1950
Edvard Munch installed in the Main Gallery, 1950. Photo: Phillips Collection Archives On May 28, 1950, a show by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, little known in the United States, opens at the...
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Phillips Flashback: June 15, 1923
The Phillips family house at 21st and Q Streets NW, built in 1897. (Left) Circa 1900, the house as originally conceived. (Right) 1930s, after the House had been expanded three times, the most recent...
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Printing the (Phillips) Diamond Jubilee
Plate and print proposed by Scip Barnhart for the Phillips's 60th anniversary. Photos: Scip Barnhart Long before he led Thursday’s Jasper Johns-inspired printmaking demonstration, Scip Barnhart brought...
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Phillips Flashback: September 1916
Arthur B. Davies, The Hesitation of Orestes, c.1915-18. Oil on canvas, 26 x 40 1/8 in. The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Acquired 1923. Art and Archaeology publishes Duncan Phillips’s article,...
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Phillips Flashback: November 5, 1960
A view on 21st Street, NW, of the 1960 annex. Photo: Phillips Collection Archives A new wing, known as the annex and designed by the firm Wyeth and King, opens. Joined to the 1907 Music Room addition...
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Phillips Flashback: November 30, 1984
D.C.’s reputation for tennis shoes with sensible suits and other fashion sadness has lifted a bit as the city has recently achieved the once far-away status of “cool”. But was it a hip place back in...
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Phillips Flashback: January 1925
This painting, known in 1925 as “New York Roof,” was part of the first Little Room exhibition. Marjorie Phillips, The City, 1922. Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 in. The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C....
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Phillips Flashback: April 7, 1940
Brochure for Emotional Design in Painting, 1940; front cover and inside page. Phillips Collection Archives. April 7 is opening day for C. Law Watkins’s education exhibition, Emotional Design in...
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Mining the Archives
(Left) Vesna Pavlović, Untitled (Swiss Peasant art exhibition, 1957.4), (2014). Courtesy of the artist and G Fine Art (Right) Vesna Pavlović, Installation view of Untitled (Annex, Giacometti...
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Legendary Cinematographer Karl Struss’s Visit to the Phillips
(left) Karl Struss, The Open Window, ca. 1910-1911. Platinum print, 3 11/16 x 4 5/16 in. Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas © 1983 Amon Carter Museum of American Art (right) Clarence...
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Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Good World”
Letter from Georgia O’Keeffe to Marjorie Phillips, 1975 A letter from Georgia O’Keeffe to Marjorie Phillips, wife of Duncan Phillips and a painter in her own right, has a postscript that reads, “It was...
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Phillips Flashback: A Visit From Pierre Bonnard
Pierre Bonnard, Early Spring, 1908. Oil on canvas, 34 1/4 x 52 in. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, Acquired 1925; © 2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris French painter...
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Women of Influence
Postcard from Elmira Bier to Marjorie Phillips, undated. From The Phillips Collection archives Women of Influence: Elmira Bier, Minnie Byers, and Marjorie Phillips is the current Reading Room...
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Phillips Flashback: A New York State of Mind
Letter from Duncan Phillips to Frank Rehn, 1922. From The Phillips Collection Library & Archives In 1922, one year after The Phillips Collection opened to the public, Duncan Phillips explored the...
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Phillips Flashback: A Man of Many Lists
From The Phillips Collection Archives Museum founder Duncan Phillips loved making lists. He often created lists that ranked individual works of art. In a document dated 1919-1920, prior to the museum’s...
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Phillips Flashback: Neither Rain Nor Sleet…
As I worked on an ongoing project to organize Duncan Phillips’s correspondence, I was surprised to see many letters that were sent and received on subsequent days as well as on the same day. Phillips...
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A Byers Family Reunion
Members of Minnie Byers’s family with Phillips Head Librarian Karen Schneider Last month, ten members of Minnie Byers’s family came from as far away as Texas to see the archival exhibition Women of...
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