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Location: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Florine Stettheimer, Portrait of Alfred Stieglitz, 1928, oil on canvas, 96.5 x 66.7 cm (Fisk University and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art) — This portrait gives us a glimpse into the creative circle of Alfred Stieglitz in 1920s New York, with references to Georgia O'Keeffe, Arthur Dove, Henry McBride, and others.

Florine Stettheimer, Portrait of Alfred Stieglitz

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

Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Good Shepherd, 1917, oil on canvas, 25-1/2 x 32 inches (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art) — Painted after the end of World War I and amid pressure to "represent his race" as a Black man, Tanner brings biblical scenes into the modern world

Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Good Shepherd

by Dr. Mindy Besaw, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Dr. Beth Harris

Asher B Durand, Kindred Spirits, Crystal Bridges — One of the most recognized paintings in American history, this painting is an ode to friendship and nature

Asher B. Durand, Kindred Spirits

by Dr. Mindy Besaw, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Dr. Steven Zucker

Edmonia Lewis, The Old Arrow Maker, modeled 1866, carved c. 1872, marble, 50.8 x 35.6 x 35.6 cm (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art). — Edmonia Lewis, an artist of Black and Indigenous heritage, uses a neoclassical style to depict Indigenous subjects from a popular novel around the time of the U.S. Civil War

Edmonia Lewis, The Old Arrow Maker

by Dr. Mindy Besaw, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Dr. Beth Harris

Rolanda, a close friend of Frida Kahlo, explores her Mexican identity in the 1930s with surrealism and a volcano

Rosa Rolanda, Self-Portrait

by Dr. Jennifer Padgett, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank

O'Keeffe takes on the New York skyline in the 1920s

Georgia O’Keeffe, Radiator Building—Night, New York

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

This monumental painting of Black people at the beach speaks to a dearth of Black figures in the art history canon

Amy Sherald, Precious Jewels by the Sea

by Dr. Austen Bailly and Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank

Alma Thomas, Lunar Rendezvous—Circle of Flowers, 1969, acrylic on canvas, 127 x 121.9 cm (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville) — Thomas takes inspiration from both the 1969 moon landing and her backyard garden

Alma Thomas, Lunar Rendezvous—Circle of Flowers

by Alejo Benedetti, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Dr. Steven Zucker

Kerry James Marshall, Our Town (Crystal Bridges) — The American Dream is not what it seems in this artwork that combines painting and collage

Kerry James Marshall, Our Town

by Alejo Benedetti, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Dr. Beth Harris

exodus new grid — Although there are no figures in this massive tapestry, the South Asian diaspora is manifest through the almost 200 globally sourced saris.

Suchitra Mattai, Exodus

by Dr. Sarah Magnatta

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

Gerardus Duyckinck I (attributed), six portraits of the Levy-Franks family (Franks Children with Bird, Franks Children with Lamb, Jacob Franks, Moses Levy, Mrs. Jacob Franks (Abigaill Levy), and Ricka Franks), c. 1735, oil on canvas (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art) — A Jewish family in early New York

Gerardus Duyckinck I (attributed), Six portraits of ...

by Dr. Mindy Besaw, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Dr. Beth Harris

Hock E Aye VI Edgar Heap of Birds, Native Hosts (Arkansas), 2018, aluminum sign, series of seven, 46.7 x 92.5 cm (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, ©Hock E Aye VI Edgar Heap of Birds) — Signs to guide historical understanding

Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of ...

by Dr. Mindy Besaw, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Dr. Beth Harris

James Wooldridge, Indians of Virginia, c. 1675, oil on linen, 75.6 x 108.6 cm (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art), a Seeing America video Speakers: Dr. Mindy Besaw, Curator of American Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Dr. Steven Zucker — Europe's earliest views of America

Wooldridge, Indians of Virginia

by Dr. Mindy Besaw, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Dr. Steven Zucker

George Bellows, Return of the Useless (detail), 1918, oil on canvas, 149.9 x 167.6 cm (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art) — The New York based ashcan artist George Bellows tackles the horrors of the First World War

Bellows, Return of the Useless

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

Maya Lin SilverUWRGrid — The river's brilliant reflections gave shape to this enormous sculpture of silver

Maya Lin’s Silver Upper White River

by Alejo Benedetti, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Dr. Steven Zucker

Jacob Lawrence, Ambulance Call, 1948, tempera on board, 61 x 50.8 cm (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art) — Lawrence captures the vitality of Harlem and highlights the advancements in medical care for and by people of color.

A Harlem street scene by Jacob Lawrence, ...

by Dr. Jennifer Padgett, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Dr. Beth Harris

James Turrell, Skyscape, The Way of Color — A viewing station for sunrise and sunset, Turrell’s work manipulates light, time, and perception.

James Turrell, Skyspace, the way of color

by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker

Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (Woman Feeding Bird) — Weems sets her series around the kitchen table, a metaphor for the intimate spaces of home.

Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (Woman Feeding Bird), ...

by Lauren Haynes, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Dr. Steven Zucker