A dream-like flooded landscape—does is suggest bleakness or hope?
American art to WW II
O’Keeffe began this painting upon her return to New Mexico, shortly after the death of her husband
Georgia O’Keefe, Spring
Motley focuses on Black subjects in elegant portraits that conveyed power and self-agency during World War II
Archibald John Motley Jr., Nightlife
A drop of milk landing into a bowl makes an elegant crown shape, thanks to Edgerton’s stroboscope.
Harold Edgerton, Milk-Drop Coronet Splash
Woodruff reimagines racist tropes of Black banjo players with a figure who is confident and joyful
Hale Woodruff, The Banjo Player
Jacobi seems to have been able to see more facets of Einstein than the editors of Life cared to share with their readership.
Lotte Jacobi, Albert Einstein
Horst's Mainbocher Corset photograph journeyed across oceans and time to transform Vogue into a concept and a verb.
Horst P. Horst, Mainbocher Corset, Paris
Ben Shahn's painting asks: Who belongs in the art world?
Ben Shahn, Contemporary American Sculpture
Perhaps the largest relief sculpture in the world, this Confederate memorial is an expression of 20th and 21st century racial politics.
Stone Mountain, Georgia
How a statue representing well-functioning government ended up in a cemetery
Frederick MacMonnies, Civic Virtue
Pottery Makers is one of many that the artist Awa Tsireh (Cattail Bird, Spanish name Alfonso Roybal) created about Pueblo cultures
Awa Tsireh’s Pottery Makers
Stephen Mopope's sixteen murals displayed within the Anadarko, OK post office depict the life and traditions of the Kiowa people.
Stephen Mopope, U.S. Post Office Murals, Anadarko, ...
Contemporary artist discusses Horace Pippin as a so-called "outsider" artist and the importance of his perspective into every-day American life
Josiah McElheny on Horace Pippin
A black painter confronts white supremacy amidst the two world wars.
Horace Pippin, Mr. Prejudice
If you walked into this art gallery you would likely have been quite surprised.
291—Little Galleries of the Photo Secession
Cuban cigars, Cuban independence
Metcalf, Havana Harbor
A magical landscape
Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Little Joe with Cow
Visiting the Lower East Side in 1905
George Benjamin Luks, Street Scene (Hester Street)
Finding beauty in American industry
Elsie Driggs, Blast Furnaces
The Pueblo Modernism of Velino Shije Herrera.
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