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Be among the first to purchase online the beautiful, newly published gift book Young America: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.If you haven't had to opportunity to view our traveling exhibition Young America in person, purchase this richly illustrated color catalog of the exhibition with a convienent click of your mouse at our virtual Museum Shop. Young America: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum is one of eight exhibitions in Treasures to Go, from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, touring the nation through 2002. The portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and everyday scenes assembled in this exhibition reveal the democratic ideals and vision that shaped America as it evolved from a collection of British colonies into independent nationhood. These paintings and sculptures, created between the 1760s and the 1870s, reflect life in New England and the mid-Atlantic, where initially British artistic traditions were the strongest influence but soon the grand cultural traditions of Italy prevailed.
Pictured: Amy Pastan. Young America: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (New York: National Museum of American Art with Watson-Guptill Publications, 2000).
Be among the first to purchase online the beautiful, newly published gift book Young America: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.If you haven't had to opportunity to view our traveling exhibition Young America in person, purchase this richly illustrated color catalog of the exhibition with a convienent click of your mouse at our virtual Museum Shop. Young America: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum is one of eight exhibitions in Treasures to Go, from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, touring the nation through 2002. The portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and everyday scenes assembled in this exhibition reveal the democratic ideals and vision that shaped America as it evolved from a collection of British colonies into independent nationhood. These paintings and sculptures, created between the 1760s and the 1870s, reflect life in New England and the mid-Atlantic, where initially British artistic traditions were the strongest influence but soon the grand cultural traditions of Italy prevailed.