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Images of Small Creatures

December 11, 1995–March 8, 1996
East Building, Ground Floor, Study Center

This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery of Art.

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Original exhibition poster
(click to enlarge)

Overview: This exhibition combined natural history studies, collection catalogs, emblem books, and artists’ books to look at the wide variety of ways that artists, printmakers, and publishers depict insects and other small animals or use them to convey their ideas.

Organization: The exhibition was organized by the National Gallery of Art. Susan Clay, acquisitions technician, was curator.