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Exhibition Overview

From Hollywood to Breezewood, a retrospective of Val Lewton, brings it all to bear; Lewton's lifetime in front of the canvas, his knowledge of color, his unerring command of the paint-loaded brush and his certitude about how best to structure a painting. Lewton was born in California, the son of a film director, and moved to Washington to work as an exhibit designer at the Smithsonian Â鶹´«Ã½ Art Museum (then the National Collection of Fine Arts). His paintings use the artifacts of traffic and run of the mill objects — cars, trucks, roadways, semi-demolished buildings, and paint cans — to create improbably beautiful and personal compositions.