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"Belgian Village" a Century of Progress--Chicago
1933 Morris Henry Hobbs Born: Rockford, Illinois 1892 Died: New Orleans, Louisiana 1967 etching on paper plate: 11 3/4 x 9 3/8 in. (29.8 x 23.8 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Chicago Society of Etchers 1935.13.577 Not currently on view
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"El" Second and Third Avenue Lines; Bowery and Division Street, Manhattan, from the series Changing New York
1936 Berenice Abbott Born: Springfield, Ohio 1898 Died: Monson, Maine 1991 gelatin silver print on paper image: 9 5/8 x 7 7/8 in. (24.4 x 19.9 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of George McNeil 1983.16.5 Not currently on view
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"Speak Easy"
ca. 1920-1935 Margaret Schloemann linoleum cut on paper image: 10 1/4 x 8 3/8 in. (26.1 x 21.3 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum purchase 1974.66.4 Not currently on view
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"The perception of beauty is a moral test."--Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 1850. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
1965 Miguel Garcia Vivancos Born: Mazarrón, Spain 1895 Died: Cordova, Spain 1972 oil on canvas 31 7/8 x 39 3/8 in. (81.0 x 97.5 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.298 Not currently on view
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"Theoline", Pier 11, East River, Manhattan (from series, Changing New York)
1936 Berenice Abbott Born: Springfield, Ohio 1898 Died: Monson, Maine 1991 gelatin silver print on paper image and sheet: 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of George McNeil 1983.16.4 Not currently on view
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"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do."--St. Thomas Aquinas, Two Precepts of Charity, 1273. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
1952 Philip Guston Born: Montreal, Quebec, Canada 1913 Died: Woodstock, New York 1980 oil on paper mounted on paperboard sheet: 19 7/8 x 12 5/8 in. (50.4 x 32.0 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.112 Not currently on view
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"True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success; the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization is the measure of the
1965 Harry Lieberman Born: Gnieveshev, Poland 1876 Died: Manhasset, New York 1983 oil on canvas 24 x 30 1/8 in. (61.1 x 76.5 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.178 Not currently on view
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ca. 1935-1939 Charles Surendorf Born: Richmond, Indiana 1906 Died: 1979 wood engraving on paper image: 3 x 3 3/8 in. (7.6 x 8.6 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Jean Nichols 1974.38.108 Not currently on view
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(Aerial View of the Smithsonian)
1936 Garnet Jex Born: Kent, Ohio 1895 Died: Arlington, Virginia 1979 oil on canvas 30 x 40 1/8 in. (76.2 x 101.9 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum acquisition 1965.53 Not currently on view
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(Chicago) from the "Black Trans-Atlantic Experience Project"
1983 Stephen Marc Born: Rantoul, Illinois 1954 silver print 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of the artist 1996.12.1 Not currently on view