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North American Modernism

Grace Lake popup — Seen as breaking with European artistic traditions the Group of Seven’s paintings of the Canadian landscape were equated with social, cultural, and political meanings and ideals.

Franklin Carmichael, Grace Lake

by Dr. Isabelle Gapp

Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Little Joe with Cow, 1923, oil on canvas, 71.1 x 106.7 cm (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art) — A magical landscape

Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Little Joe with Cow

by Dr. Jennifer Padgett, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Dr. Steven Zucker

Elsie Driggs, Blast Furnaces, 1927, oil on canvas, 83.8 x 99.1 cm (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2017.1) — Finding beauty in American industry

Elsie Driggs, Blast Furnaces

by Dr. Jennifer Padgett, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Dr. Steven Zucker

Millard Sheets, Tenement Flats (detail), 1933-34 (SAAM) — Cats, gossip, and laundry — a view of Los Angeles during the Great Depression.

Millard Sheets, Tenement Flats

by Dr. Virginia Mecklenburg, Smithsonian American Art Museum and Dr. Steven Zucker