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Modernism & abstraction

treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
2001
Showcases works that parallel developments in modern life during the coarse of the twentieth century as American artists absorbed European avant-garde styles and translated them into a native idiom.

Mirror, mirror

self-portraits by women artists
2002
A collection of self-portraits by women artists which explores the history and function of the self-portrait.

William Blake

2001
Illustrations and text analyze the vision, personal mythology, political views, and painting techniques of British artist William Blake.

Brazil

body & soul
2001
Profiles the works of art which were part of the large-scale exhibition "Mostra do redescubrimiento: Brasil 500 anos" which was held in Brazil in 2000 to celebrate the first contacts with Europe five hundred years ago.

Painters and the American West

the Anschutz collection
2000
Profiles the paintings in the Anschutz Collection, one of the largest privately owned collections of American West paintings in the world.

Ben Shahn's New York

the photography of modern times
2000
Presents a collection of documentary street photographs taken by artist Ben Shahn in New York City in the early 1930s, with text that examines the social history of the pictures, as well as an analysis of Shahn's motives and the importance of his art.

A Day in the country

impressionism and the French landscape
1984

Nicholas and Alexandra

the last imperial family of Tsarist Russia, from the State Heritage Museum and the State Archive of the Russian F ederation
1998

Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand

masterworks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
2010
Explores the interlinked lives of Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Paul Strand and contains many of the black-and-white photographs they took throughout their lives.

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