Author: Theresa J. Slowik
Copublisher: Harry N. Abrams
Publication Date: 2006
Museum: SAAM
Pages: 324 pp.: ill. (197 color)
ISBN (Softcover): 0-8109-9192-6
From its earliest stirrings as a republic to the information age, America has been a country of triumph and struggle, imagination and innovation. And for nearly three centuries the country’s artists, witnesses to the nation’s extraordinary arc of development, have created a rich visual record that offers insights into our beginnings and growth as a nation.
America’s Art gathers 225 of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s best works, culled from a collection of 40,000 objects. The book broadly sketches periods in America’s history-from the colonial period and Revolution through the Civil War, to the Gilded Age, World War II, and modern art-to create a vibrant portrait of creativity, reflection, and celebration.
