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Cold Beer
You Don't Have to Go to Munich to celebrate Oktoberfest.

Many cities in the United States observe the Bavarian harvest festival, sometimes as early as September. This weekend, cruise into Tulsa, Oklahoma, for a party from October 17 through 20!

Munch on Bratwurst and Schnitzel, dance to traditional German music, top it off with a slice of streudel or black forest cake, and wash it all down with a drink of your choice! You can raise your stein to a traditional beer keg, or drink any number of nonalcoholic beverages!

If you cannot partake in Oktoberfest, perhaps you can get in the spirit with Robert Cottingham's print Cold Beer. Then take a virtual "road trip" across the nation with Cottingham in our online exhibition Eyeing America: The Prints of Robert Cottingham.

Pictured: Robert Cottingham, born 1935, Cold Beer, 1980–1982, hand-colored offset lithograph, 14 x 14 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of an anonymous donor.