America’s art tells America’s story - the optimism, struggles, and pain. This class explores how artists from colonial times to the USA’s 250th anniversary have pictured America’s history, landscape, people, ideas, and ideals. Images will range from the innocent America captured by Norman Rockwell in his early work to the struggles of Black Americans seen in his late paintings, from views of unspoiled country by Thomas Cole to the lonely cities of Edward Hopper, from realistic to abstract, and from stimulating patriotism to encouraging change. The varied images help to build our picture of America.

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