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Essay

Eagles After the American Revolution

June 1, 2012

By Amy Liebster

Today, the eagle remains one of the most prevalent symbols of the nation.
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Margaret Kemble Gage: Sultana of the American Revolution

April 18, 2017
Contemplate the time-eternal role of females as muse by looking at three women who are known to history primarily through their depictions in seductive and powerful portraits, but who were stunningly smart, influential women living through challenging times in American History.
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editorial

A Revolution in Language

March 21, 2016

By Jennifer Farrell

Associate Curator Jennifer Farrell shares some of the revolutionary 20th-century artworks in the exhibition Wordplay: Matthias Buchinger's Drawings from the Collection of Ricky Jay that challenged linguistic, cultural, social, and political structures.
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Cross-Departmental Dialogue: The Rock and the Revolution

April 4, 2014

By Xin Wang

Research Assistant Xin Wang and Assistant Curator Ian Alteveer discuss the connections between William Kentridge's installation The Refusal of Time (2012) and several videos in Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China.
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editorial

Redefining American Art: Native American Art in The American Wing

February 21, 2017

By Sylvia Yount

Curator Sylvia Yount details three extraordinary Native American artworks from the Charles and Valerie Diker Collection that were recently installed in The American Wing.
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Essay

Late Eighteenth-Century American Drawings

October 1, 2003

By Kevin J. Avery

American draftsmanship before 1800 was dominated by portraiture.
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Essay

Years Leading to the Iranian Revolution, 1960–79

May 1, 2016

By Julia Rooney and Maryam Ekhtiar

As [Iran] moved into another mode, artists struggled to defend, discover, and re-create their own identities both at home and abroad.
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editorial

Art of a Revolution

February 6, 2019

By Annalise Welte

Former Senior Library Associate Annalise Welte writes about books published by Daughters of the American Revolution.
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Essay

American Impressionism

October 1, 2004

By H. Barbara Weinberg

In 1886, with a series of brilliant images of New York’s new public parks, William Merritt Chase became the first major American painter to create Impressionist canvases in the United States.
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Past Exhibition

Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Revolution, Resistance, and Activism

July 29, 2021–January 17, 2022
The Department of Drawings and Prints boasts more than one million drawings, prints, and illustrated books made in Europe and the Americas from around 1400 to the present day. Because of their number and sensitivity to light, the works can only be …
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Art

Surrealism & revolution

Franklin Rosemont (American, Chicago 1943–2009 Chicago)

Date: 1966
Accession Number: NX456.5.S8 Z73 1966

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Art

Surrealism in the service of the revolution

Radical America

Date: 1970
Accession Number: NX600.S9 S97 1970

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Virgil Ortiz : revolution / Charles S. King

Charles S. King (American, born 1967)

Date: 2021
Accession Number: C 013398

Videos

Margaret Kemble Gage: Sultana of the American Revolution

Contemplate the time-eternal role of females as muse by looking at three women who are known to history primarily through their depictions in seductive and powerful portraits, but who were stunningly smart, influential women living through challenging times in American History.
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Art

Pier Table

Charles-Honoré Lannuier (France 1779–1819 New York)

Date: 1815–19
Accession Number: 2018.30a, b

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Art

Rip Van Winkle

Albertis del Orient Browere (1814–1887)

Date: 1833
Accession Number: 2002.444

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Art

Card table

Charles-Honoré Lannuier (France 1779–1819 New York)

Date: 1805–12
Accession Number: 46.24

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Art

Washington Crossing the Delaware

Emanuel Leutze (American, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1816–1868 Washington, D.C.)

Date: 1851
Accession Number: 97.34

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Flintlock Rifle with Case and Bullet Mould Made for Colonel Jacob Bates (1746–1836)

Silas Allen Jr. (American, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, 1785–1868)

Date: ca. 1820
Accession Number: 38.116a–k

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Pouch

Date: early 19th century
Accession Number: 2016.738.3