About+American+Art

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The Art
Throughout the history of the United States the nations struggles and triumphs have been depicted in a myriad forms of artistic expression. Painters, sculptors, photographs and architects have created a visual record that allows us to return to the nation's birth and watch it's life unfold.

The parallel stories of the nation's history and artistic evaluation bring the past to light in intriguing ways. The countries first maps show the exploration and expansion carried out by the settlers as they penetrated the land. As America continued to grow and change, so did its schools of art with innovative materials and technologies. Structures such as the Woolworth building and the Empire State gave way to edifices of power.

Painters such as Grant Wood, Edward Hopper, Thomas H. BEnton, and Georgia O'Keefe created new, distinctly American voices and here is how it all started.

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