Smithsonian American Art Museum
8th and G Streets, NW
Washington, DC
Examine how American art has been identified with the changing concepts and ideals associated with the U.S. over the past 200 years. More than 350 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures are covered by 8 themes, including:
- America as Symbol. Includes many anonymous artists as well as works by John Barralet, Edward Savage, Constantino Brumidi and Benjamin Latrobe.
- The Virtue of American Nature. Includes works of Thomas Cole, Asher Brown Durand, Frederic Church, Charles Herbert Moore and George Innes.
- The Frontier and the Native American. Includes George Catlin, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederick Remington.
- The Image of Urban Optimism. Includes Joseph Stella, Louis Lozowick, Charles Sheeler, and Georgia O'Keefe.
- The Folk and the Masses. Includes Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, John S. Curry, Reginald Marsh, and many works from Federal arts projects.
- A Center for Art. Includes Jackson Pollock, David Smith, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, William de Kooning and Franz Kline.
- Identity from Uniformity. Includes Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Richard Estes.
- The American Cousin. Includes James G. Clonney, John Quidor, William Sidney Mount and F.O.C. Darley.
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