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.
Seeing America – Periods: 1898-1945
Learn about the story of Fog Woman and Raven and the generations of this totem pole from the Tlingit
The Chief Johnson Totem Pole
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
Ufer, a German immigrant to the United States, seeks an authentic American art in New Mexico on the heels of World War I and the influenza epidemic.
Walter Ufer, Hunger
Rolanda, a close friend of Frida Kahlo, explores her Mexican identity in the 1930s with surrealism and a volcano
Rosa Rolanda, Self-Portrait
O'Keeffe takes on the New York skyline in the 1920s
Georgia O’Keeffe, Radiator Building—Night, New York
Gashes in the land and a scarecrow crucifix speak to the environmental crisis of the Dust Bowl
An environmental crisis, Hogue’s Crucified Land
An ode to a taken homeland, this painting features a broad landscape of the Wichita Mountains and an everyday scene of the Kiowa people
Stephen Mopope, Game of Skill
A dream-like flooded landscape—does is suggest bleakness or hope?
Eldzier Cortor, Southern Landscape
Woodruff reimagines racist tropes of Black banjo players with a figure who is confident and joyful
Hale Woodruff, The Banjo Player
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.
The Long History of Stone Mountain, Georgia
A conversation that took place on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, just before the last Confederate monument on the boulevard was removed in September 2021
Monument Avenue and the Lost Cause
How a statue representing well-functioning government ended up in a cemetery
Public art, politics, and the banishing of ...
What will technology bring us? A more egalitarian society, a world where everyone can be educated? Or will it bring greater inequality? We still debate these issues...
Diego Rivera, Man Controller of the Universe
The Port of Havana, cigar shops, and Cuban independence
Cuban cigars, Cuban independence
A modernism emerges from tourism, boarding schools & indigenous traditions
The pueblo modernism of Ma Pe Wi
The awesome beauty of a large hole in the earth, dug to bring railroads to Manhattan.
Before Penn Station, Bellows & old NYC
Kuniyoshi came to the US as a teen and loved his adopted country, but was considered a possible enemy during WWII.
Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Little Joe with Cow
The awesome steel mills of Pittsburgh in the 1920s made an impression on the young Elsie Driggs.
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