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"Con treinta balazos de odio..."
1981 Malaquias Montoya Born: Albuquerque, New Mexico 1938 serigraph on paper sheet: 23 1/4 x 16 3/4 in. (58.9 x 42.5 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Tomas Ybarra-Frausto 1995.50.39 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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"Education is revelation that affects the individual."--Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, The Education of the Human Race, 1780. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
1966 Johannes Itten Born: Süderen-Linden, Switzerland 1888 Died: Zürich, Switzerland 1967 oil and pencil on canvas 31 1/2 x 31 5/8 in. (80.0 x 80.4 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.126 Not currently on view
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"Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one."--Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship, II, 1840, lecture in London, May 8. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
1961 Herbert Bayer Born: Haag, Austria 1900 Died: Montecito, California 1985 metal overall (includes base): 14 7/8 x 13 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. (37.9 x 34.3 x 31. Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.25 Smithsonian American Art Museum
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"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path
1954 Hans Moller Born: Wuppertal, Germany 1905 Died: Allentown, Pennsylvania 2000 gouache on paperboard sheet: 14 7/8 x 10 1/8 in. (37.8 x 25.7 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.217 Not currently on view
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"God made the world and all things therein...and has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on the face of the earth..."--St. Paul. Fromthe series Great Ideas of Western Man.
1958 Herbert Bayer Born: Haag, Austria 1900 Died: Montecito, California 1985 color serigraph and conte crayon on fabric mounted on board mounted on masonite 21 1/8 x 17 7/8 in. (53.7 x 45.5 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.21 Not currently on view
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"He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much."--Lao-Tzu, 6th century B.C. Chinese moralist and mystic, on Generosity. From the series Great Ideas.
1958 Wing Gig Fong Born: Sacramento, California 1922 serigraph on paperboard mounted on board sheet: 22 1/2 x 17 3/8 in. (57.2 x 44.1 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.91 Not currently on view
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"He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much."--Lao-Tzu, 6th century Chinese moralist and mystic on Generosity. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
1958 Wing Gig Fong Born: Sacramento, California 1922 gouache on paper mounted on paperboard image: 11 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. (29.8 x 22.1 cm) Remarks: sheet: 20 x 14 5/16 Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.92 Not currently on view
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"I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible."--Mahatma Gandhi, Young India, June 1, 1921. From the series Great Ideas of Eastern Man.
1964 Hans Laabs Born: 1915 gouache on paper mounted on paper sheet: 12 3/8 x 9 3/8 in. (31.5 x 23.9 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.167 Not currently on view
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"In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility towards human life;
1974 Wilburn Bonnell III Born: Shelbyville, Illinois 1948 silkscreen on aluminum 60 x 30 in. (152.5 x 76.3 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.34 Not currently on view