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America Today is a mural comprising ten canvas panels, painted with egg tempera in 1930–1931 by the American painter Thomas Hart Benton. It provides a panorama of American life throughout the 1920s, based on Benton's extensive travels in the country. Originally commissioned for The New School for Social Research, it has belonged to the ...
Great America was the centerpiece of an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art entitled "In the Tower: Kerry James Marshall", which was on view from June to December 2013. [5] [7] At least one study Marshall produced ahead of painting the final canvas for Great America was lost when a fire destroyed the Kent , Washington, D.C. home of art ...
Presidential Medal of Freedom. Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was an American painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of the country's culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday ...
The Four Freedoms is a series of four oil paintings made in 1943 by the American artist Norman Rockwell. The paintings— Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear —are each approximately 45.75 by 35.5 inches (116.2 by 90.2 cm), [ 1] and are now in the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
The Swimming Hole. The Swimming Hole (also known as Swimming and The Old Swimming Hole) is an 1884–85 painting by the American artist Thomas Eakins (1844–1916), Goodrich catalog #190, in the collection of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas. Executed in oil on canvas, it depicts six men swimming naked in a lake, and ...
George Caleb Bingham, and later Frederic Remington, Charles M. Russell, the photographer Edward S. Curtis, and others recorded the U.S. Western heritage and the Old American West through their art. History painting was a less popular genre in U.S. art during the 19th century, although Washington Crossing the Delaware, painted by the German-born ...
July 23, 2024 at 11:46 AM. Jul. 23—In an effort to show there is art outside of New York, LA and Chicago, the third season of the Amazon Prime Video series The Story of Art in America features ...
American Gothic. American Gothic is a 1930 painting by Grant Wood in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. A character study of a man and a woman portrayed in front of a home, American Gothic is one of the most famous American paintings of the 20th century, and has been widely parodied in American popular culture. [ 1][ 2]