Artists Unframed: Snapshots from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art by independent curator and arts writer Merry Forest reveals the private lives of some of the 20th-century's greatest artists in 100 captivating photographs.

Away from their studios and gallery settings, poised with everything from ice cream cones to party hats, at home and on vacation, snapshots capture legendary artists such as Alexander Calder, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Ansel Adams, Elaine de Kooning, David Hockney, Dizzy Gillespie, Marcel Duchamp, E. M. Forster, Eero Saarinen, John Waters,and many others.

One 1956 photo of Ben Shahn spies him perusing the postcards in an Italian museum gift shop. A 1972 one of Fairfield Porter catches him wearing a speedo while bending to scratch the head of his glossy Irish Setter, reports Hyperallergic.