America's art, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Abstract

Showcases 225 works from the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection, and includes essays that link the art with the U.S. pageant of history.

Contents

From distant shores -- This other Eden -- Liberty more than life -- Ever westward -- Hand to the plow -- Brother against brother -- The rise of industry -- An eye for beauty -- Seeing the city -- The Harlem renaissance -- South by southwest -- The Great Depression -- Folk traditions -- Americans at midcentury -- The abstract impulse -- Toward the millennium -- Catalogue.