Things I Saw at the Smithsonian Today That I Love

HIRSHHORN GALLERY
(mostly closed for renovations)

Jeremy Deller’s “English Magic” (2013)
[worth waiting for or fast forwarding to 09:00]

NATIONAL GALLERY
(West Wing, which now that I’m in my 30’s I’m more interested in than the more modern East Wing)

Alexandre-François Desportes’ “Still Life with Dressed Game, Meat, and Fruit” (1734)
Still Life with Dressed Game, Meat, and Fruit

All of Jean-Baptiste Oudry’s paintings
Henri Camille, Chevalier de Beringhen

Fragonard’s courtly pastorals
The Swing

Joseph Wright’s portraits
[web file doesn’t do its color or light justice]
Portrait of a Gentleman

Wagguno’s “Fruit and Baltimore Oriole” (1858)
[and all of the American Naive stuff on exhibit]
Fruit and Baltimore Oriole

Again, because I love it so much: Wagguno’s “Fruit and Baltimore Oriole” (1858!)
Fruit and Baltimore Oriole

John Singleton Copley’s “Eleazer Tyng” (1772)
Eleazer Tyng

Everything ever by John Frederick Peto
The Old Kettle

James Nares’s “Street” (2012)

MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY’S MAMMAL HALL
(famously depicted in a certain paperback)

Pink Fairy Armadillo
Pink_Fairy_Armadillo_(Chlamyphorus_truncatus)

Flying Fox
flyingfox

Also the black panther, orangutan, tapir, and the Chinese water deer I didn’t take any pics of, but here’s a decent one:
Chinese Water Deer Specimen

ARCHIVES OF THE NATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM
(super secret access granted in the name of research)

Skeksis Head, Dark Crystal
Skeksis

Kermit the Frog, original prototype
kermit

Phyllis Diller’s Joke file
(incl. ca. 50,000 jokes typed on index cards)
jokefile

Phyllis Diller’s wig
(one of many)
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