National Museum of American History

 To Dr. Anthea M. Hartig, director of National Museum of American History, Washington, DC

The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History should be the first museum in America to have the first exemplar of NFT crypto art in its collection.

Just as cyber artworks have found their homes in museums worldwide since the 1980’s, crypto artworks will enter museum collections in the 2020's.

My "Digitized Homage to Rembrandt" computer-generated lithograph has been in the collection of the National Museum of American History since 1987 as a historic exemplar of the first digital printmaking art. I created this artwork during the time I was head of the art department of Pratt Institute and research fellow at MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies.

To make the National Museum of American History the first museum to have the first exemplar of NFT crypto art, I will be pleased to gift to the National Museum an NFT of my 2022 artwork in the image above: “Artist Alexenberg in period garb launches cyberangel on flight from Rembrandt’s studio in Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam to Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, DC.”

On April 8, 1987, Gary Kulik, Chairman, Department of Social & Cultural History at the National Museum of American History wrote: “It gives me great pleasure to acknowledge, on behalf of the National Museum of American History, the receipt of "Digitized Homage to Rembrandt: Day Angels" kindly presented to our Division of Graphic Arts. This lithograph from a computer-generated image is a most valuable addition to our collection. It has been entered on our records as a gift from the Pratt Graphics Center. Please accept my thanks for your generous interest in the national collections.” The original letter is in the Smithsonian’s Archive of American Art with my papers.

My experimental digital art is in the collections of thirty museums and cyber events have been seen by millions. I am author of the key books in the field, The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age and Educating Artists for the Future: Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology and Culture, published by Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press.