Cats, gossip, and laundry — a view of Los Angeles during the Great Depression.
Location Country: United States
When an artist erases another artist's drawing, is it still a drawing, and whose? This work challenges the art definitions and contexts of its time.
In 1953, Robert Rauschenberg erased a drawing ...
An interpretation of the city's colossal skyscrapers
The City at night, Joseph Stella’s The ...
When movies were new and lights transformed the darkened city streets.
John Sloan, Movies
Cole, the great American landscape painter looks across the vast history of Western architecture
Thomas Cole, The Architect’s Dream
Politics, experience, and humanity on the streets of 1970s New York
Faith Ringgold, Ben
Museum visitors often mistake this sculpture for a real person
Duane Hanson, Executive, originally titled, Another Day
At this party, everyone has the same face and seems profoundly alone.
Marisol, The Party
The dubious justice of the anti-immigrant Know-Nothings.
Blythe, Justice
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.
Aaron Douglas, Aspiration
Martyr or murderer? John Brown has polarized political opinion from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement.
Thomas Hovenden, The Last Moments of John ...
Before T.V. and Twitter, politicians talked to voters face-to-face.
George Caleb Bingham, Country Politician
The Winchester Bible is among the most magnificent illuminated manuscripts made in England in the twelfth century.
The Morgan Leaf from The Winchester Bible
Living in peace—predator and prey, and Native Americans and settler colonists—but for how long?
Hicks’s The Peaceable Kingdom as Pennsylvania parable
An explosion in a mine kills 111, Shahn captures the devastation of those left behind.
Ben Shahn, Miners’ Wives
On the eve of the American Revolution, a glimpse of politics in portraiture
John Singleton Copley, Portrait of Mr. and ...
A brutal history told for a modern American city, Mexican muralism in New York
Diego Rivera’s Sugar Cane
How a portrait of an African muslim came to hang side-by-side with the founding fathers in one of America's earliest museums.
An African muslim among the founding fathers, ...
Go backstage at the 1960 Democratic National Convention with photographer Gary Winogrand.
Gary Winogrand, Democratic National Convention, Los Angeles, ...
According to the artist (Reginald Marsh), at Coney Island, “The best show is the people themselves.”