Seeing America Using art to understand U.S. history

Finding meaning in abstraction

Joan Mitchell, City Landscape, 1955

by Sarah Alvarez and Dr. Beth Harris

Joan Mitchell, City Landscape, 1955, oil on linen, 203.2 × 203.2 cm (Art Institute of Chicago 1958.193, ©The Estate of Joan Mitchell), a Seeing America video. speakers: Sarah Alvarez, Director of School Programs, Art Institute of Chicago, Beth Harris, and Steven Zucker

This painting at the Art Institute of Chicago

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Seeing America

Using art to understand U.S. history

Explore the diverse history of the United States through its art. Seeing America is funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Alice L. Walton Foundation.