Virtually explore the de Young Museum with Smarthistory as your guide
Some background
videos + essays
Link to the de Young Museum's website
Jess, If All the World Were Paper and All the Water Sink
From the Manhattan Project to nursery rhymes, a collision of art and science.
Aaron Douglas, Aspiration
Aspiration was one of only two panels to survive the Texas Centennial where it pointed to a future that transcended the racism of the day.
Thornton Dial, Blood and Meat: Survival For The World
An unflinching memorial to civil rights martyrs by the contemporary artist Thorton Dial
Wayne Thiebaud, Ponds and Streams
Can the commonplace working farmland of California's Sacramento River Valley be a place of of breathtaking beauty?
Thomas Hovenden, The Last Moments of John Brown
Martyr or murderer? John Brown has polarized political opinion from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement.
Masami Teraoka, American Kabuki
Teraoka draws on Japan's brilliant history of art and kabuki theatre to creating beauty from heart-rending tragedy.
George Caleb Bingham, Country Politician
Before T.V. and Twitter, politicians talked to voters face-to-face.
