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"A free man is he that in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to."--Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
1965 Jan Stussy Born: Missouri 1921 Died: West Los Angeles, California 1990 oil on canvas 48 x 48 in. (122.0 x 122.0 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.280 Not currently on view
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"Act as if the whole election depended on your single vote, and as if the whole Parliament (and therein the whole nation) on that single person whom you now choose to be a member of it." John Wesley from A word to a Freeholder, 1748. From the series Great
1956 Gerald McLaughlin Born: Sacramento, California 1925 tempera and oil on fiberboard 20 1/4 x 19 7/8 in. (51.4 x 50.5 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.198 Not currently on view
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"Among democratic nations each new generation is a new people."--Alexis de Tocqueville. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
1965 W. Lee Savage Born: Charleston, West Virginia 1928 oil and pencil on canvas 60 x 60 in. (152.4 x 152.4 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.257 Not currently on view
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"Brick Kilns," Clay Bluffs 1900 Miles above St. Louis
1832 George Catlin Born: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 1796 Died: Jersey City, New Jersey 1872 oil on canvas 11 1/8 x 14 1/4 in. (28.3 x 36.3 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr. 1985.66.366 Smithsonian American Art Museum
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"Crute" Drill
ca. 1942-1944 William H. Johnson Born: Florence, South Carolina 1901 Died: Central Islip, New York 1970 oil on paperboard 24 7/8 x 32 7/8 in. (63.3 x 83.4 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of the Harmon Foundation 1967.59.600 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 man is the son of his own works."--Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, 1605. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
1967 Leo Lionni Born: Amsterdam, Netherlands 1910 Died: Radda, Tuscany, Italy 1999 oil on wood and paper mounted on wood base 14 x 11 x 1 in. (35.6 x 28.0 x 2.6 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.185 Not currently on view
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"Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man. For war consisteth not in battle only, or the act
1951 Leon Karp Born: New York, New York 1903 Died: New York, New York 1951 oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard 30 3/8 x 24 1/4 in. (77.2 x 61.6 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.138 Not currently on view
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"Industry, self-denial, and temperance are the laws of prosperity for men and states; without them advance in the arts and in wealth means only corruption and decay through luxury and vice. With them progress in the arts and
1955 Joseph Gering Born: Wheeling, West Virginia 1914 mixed media: oil, nails, and string on wood 14 9/16 x 11 1/16 in. (37.0 x 28.2 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.102 Not currently on view
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"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."--Alfred Adler, 1870-1937. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
1966 James Gill Born: Tahoka, Texas 1934 oil on canvas 40 x 30 in. (101.5 x 76.2 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.105 Not currently on view