Pen to Paper: Artists' Handwritten Letters from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art

From casually jotted notes to elaborately decorated epistles, Pen to Paper explores the handwriting of celebrated artists such as Alexander Calder, Mary Cassatt, Frederic Edwin Church, Thomas Eakins, Howard Finster, Jacob Lawrence, Robert Motherwell, Claes Oldenburg, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, and many others.

To complement the Smithsonian's collection, handwritten letters from the Museum's archives form the exhibition, P.S.: Letters from the Lyme Art Colony. Paintings from the Florence Griswold Museum and works from private collections hang alongside selected artists' letters.