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Article: Art director Elizabeth Brown aims to showcase tradition. (head of Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art: includes biographical information)(Interview)
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- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- July 7, 1997
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The Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art has the best overall collection of American art in the world, says its director, who believes fine art's chief characteristics are vibrancy and freshness.
Elizabeth Broun is director of the National Museum of American Art, a division of the Smithsonian Institution and one of the great art galleries in Washington. Broun grew up in Kansas and is a specialist in the work of the great 19th-century American original, Albert Pinkham Ryder. "I really like tradition, because it's the way one generation can talk to another," Broun tells Insight. since her installation as director in 1989, her museum, a repository of ...