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Up“ on the Mississippi „Wooding Up“ on the Mississippi 1863 Frances Flora Bond
Race on the Mississippi A Midnight Race on the Mississippi 1860 Frances Flora Bond
Early American art includes works made by settlers in what we now know as the United States. Before the American Revolution, artists documented life in the colonies of New Spain and New England. And in the early decades of the United States, many artists represented the new nation through portraits of its early leaders.
Madison Gilbert Stuart c. 1821 Gilbert Stuart, James Madison, c. 1821, oil
Explore some of our favorite snowy scenes.
Winter Close Modal American Winter Scenes: Morning Frances Flora Bond
Associated Names Rosenwald, Lessing Julius Exhibition History 1995 Prints by James
When you think about the US West, what images and stories come to mind?
Awareness Activity: American Exceptionalism Additional Resources Frances Flora Bond
Painted during a period of labor unrest in 1925, The Fire Boss was intended as a life-size personification of a profession rather than a portrait of a specific individual. Despite his downcast, bedraggled appearance, the miner exudes defiance and inner resolve.
Luks always had an emotional bond with the area and regarded it as his home.
When Approach to Venice was first exhibited in 1844, Joseph Mallord William Turner quoted Lord Byron in the catalog description: “The moon is up, and yet it is not night / The sun as yet disputes the day with her.” In Turner’s colorful view of Venice, a full moon shares the sky with the setting sun as a flotilla of barges and gondolas makes its way across the lagoon.
Agnew & Sons, London); sold 1863 to James Fallows, who exchanged it later that year
From the Native peoples lobbying to keep their homelands to immigrants facing challenges in their new home, works from our collection help us understand our nation’s beginnings.
He was part of a delegation from the Great Plains tribes that met with President James
