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"As a solid rock is not shaken by a strong gale, so wise persons remain unaffected by praise or censure."--Buddha, 5th century, B.C. From the series Great Ideas of Eastern Man.
1960 Yusaku Kamekura Born: Japan 1915 color transparency sheet and image: 16 1/8 x 12 3/4 in. (41.0 x 32.4 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.135 Not currently on view
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"Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free."--Montesquieu on the essence of freedom, The Spirit Of the Laws, 1748. From the series Great ideas of Western Man.
1958 Herbert Matter Born: Engelberg, Switzerland 1907 Died: Southampton, New York 1984 color transparency sheet and image: 16 1/4 x 12 3/4 in. (41.1 x 32.2 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.208 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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"Forty-niner" Street Advertiser in Studio, San Francisco
1890 Unidentified albumen print on paper sheet: 7 3/8 x 4 7/8 in. (18.7 x 12.4 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment 1994.91.190 Not currently on view
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"I believe that man will not merely endure he will prevail. He is immortal not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."--William Faulkner,
1966 Jerry N. Uelsmann Born: Detroit, Michigan 1934 gelatin silver print on paper mounted on paperboard image: 13 3/4 x 10 in. (34.9 x 25.5 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.293 Not currently on view
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"Jersey" Joe Walcott and Rocky Marciano sparring in ring
1952 Herb Scharfman Born: 1912 Died: Scottsdale, Arizona 1998 gelatin silver print on paper sheet: 8 1/2 x 10 3/8 in. (21.5 x 26.5 cm) image: 7 1/2 x 9 5/8 in. (19 Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Kenneth B. Pearl 1997.118.108 Not currently on view
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"Kiss". Young Lady in Amusement Arcade, Williamson, West Virginia
1979 Bill Burke Born: Derby, Connecticut 1943 gelatin silver print on paper image: 18 5/8 x 14 1/4 in. (47.2 x 36.1 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum purchase 1984.11.1 Not currently on view
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"Marvelous" Marvin Hagler, boxer
1981 Anthony Barboza Born: New Bedford, Massachusetts 1944 gelatin silver print on paper sheet: 20 1/4 x 16 3/8 in. (51.4 x 41.5 cm) image: 13 7/8 x 13 7/8 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Kenneth B. Pearl 1997.118.2 Not currently on view
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"Pahokee Hotel," migrant vegetable picker's quarters. Near Homestead, Florida
1941, printed later Marion Post Wolcott Born: Montclair, New Jersey 1910 Died: Santa Barbara, California 1990 silver print on paper sheet: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Dr. John H. and Jann Arrington Wolcott 1998.120.6 Not currently on view
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"Palm Springs", Sanford, Florida
1976 Frank P. Herrera Born: Beckley, West Virginia 1940 gelatin silver print on paper sheet: 14 x 11 in. (35.5 x 27.8 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of the artist 1986.26 Not currently on view