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"...for I say at the core of democracy, finally, is the religious element. All the religions, old and new, are there."--Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, 1871. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
1957 Anton Refregier Born: Moscow, Russia 1905 Died: Moscow, Russia 1979 gouache on prepared fiberboard 26 x 22 in. (66.1 x 56.0 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.248 Not currently on view
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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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"A state which dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands, even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished."--John Stuart Mill on the folly of belittling men.
1956 Richard Kozlow Born: Detroit, Michigan 1926 brush and ink, watercolor, gouache and pen and ink on paperboard sheet: 19 1/8 x 15 1/2 in. (48.5 x 39.4 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.163 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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"Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men."--Jane Addams, Speech, Honolulu, 1933. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
1955 George Giusti Born: Milan, Italy 1908 Died: 1990 India ink and gouache on paper sheet: 24 1/2 x 18 1/4 in. (62.1 x 46.5 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.107 Not currently on view
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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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"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."--Henry Peter Brougham, The Present State of Law, 1828. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
1956 Honore Sharrer Born: West Point, New York 1920 gouache and pencil on paperboard sheet: 13 1/4 x 10 1/2 in. (33.7 x 26.7 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Container Corporation of America 1984.124.268 Not currently on view