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  • Nam June Paik, <i>Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii</i>, 1995, 49-channel closed circuit video installation, neon, steel and electronic components, Smithsonian American Art Museum,Gift of the artist. © 1995, Nam June Paik Nam June Paik:
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    Nam June Paik, <i>Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii</i>, 1995, 49-channel closed circuit video installation, neon, steel and electronic components, Smithsonian American Art Museum,Gift of the artist. © 1995, Nam June Paik

    Nam June Paik, Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, 1995, 49-channel closed circuit video installation, neon, steel and electronic components, Smithsonian American Art Museum,Gift of the artist. © 1995, Nam June Paik

  • Charles Willson Peale, <i>Matthias and Thomas Bordley</i>, 1767, watercolor on ivory 3 5/8 x 4 1/8 in., oval, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase and gift of Mr. and Mrs. Murray Lloyd Goldsborough, Jr. 1974.113 Luce Foundation Center
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    Charles Willson Peale, <i>Matthias and Thomas Bordley</i>, 1767, watercolor on ivory 3 5/8 x 4 1/8 in., oval, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase and gift of Mr. and Mrs. Murray Lloyd Goldsborough, Jr. 1974.113

    Charles Willson Peale, Matthias and Thomas Bordley, 1767, watercolor on ivory 3 5/8 x 4 1/8 in., oval, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase and gift of Mr. and Mrs. Murray Lloyd Goldsborough, Jr. 1974.113

  • Thomas Day, <i>Open-pillar bureau</i>, 1855, mahogany, mahogany veneer over yellow pine, and poplar, Grecian style Collection of the North Carolina Museum of History, Purchase, funds provided by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. Thomas Day: Master Craftsman
    and Free Man of Color
    April 12 – July 28, 2013
    Thomas Day, <i>Open-pillar bureau</i>, 1855, mahogany, mahogany veneer over yellow pine, and poplar, Grecian style Collection of the North Carolina Museum of History, Purchase, funds provided by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.

    Thomas Day, Open-pillar bureau, 1855, mahogany, mahogany veneer over yellow pine, and poplar, Grecian style Collection of the North Carolina Museum of History, Purchase, funds provided by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.

  • Property and labor in different classes are essentially antagonistic; but property and labor in the same class are essentially fraternal…Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer.--Horace Mann on the nature of education. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man., Honoré Sharrer, 1951, Smithsonian American Art Museum 2013-14 Fellowship Awards
    Property and labor in different classes are essentially antagonistic; but property and labor in the same class are essentially fraternal…Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer.--Horace Mann on the nature of education. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man., Honoré Sharrer, 1951, Smithsonian American Art Museum

    "Property and labor in different classes are essentially antagonistic; but property and labor in the same class are essentially fraternal…Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer."--Horace Mann on the nature of education. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man., Honoré Sharrer, 1951, Smithsonian American Art

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