Through archival materials, Associate Curator Renée Maurer explores the rich relationship between The Phillips Collection, Franz Bader, and Alma Thomas. Austrian-born Franz Bader (1903-1994) fled Europe for the US in 1939 and settled in Washington, DC, where he worked at The Whyte Bookshop and Gallery located at 17th and H Streets. During the 1930s, the […]

Through archival materials, Associate Curator Renée Maurer explores the rich relationship between The Phillips Collection and Barnett Aden Gallery. The groundbreaking Barnett Aden Gallery, the first Black-owned commercial art gallery in the United States, opened at 127 Randolph Place NW on October 16, 1943. It was founded in the private home of James V. Herring, […]

Through archival materials, Associate Curator Renée Maurer explores the rich relationships among Duncan Phillips and American University students and faculty, including Robert Gates and Alma Thomas. Robert Gates and the American University art faculty who taught Alma Thomas between 1952-1957 were closely associated with The Phillips Collection, and its former art school, managed by C. […]