A Nation of Artists
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Stars, Stripes and Stories


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A person in an art gallery stands looking at a large, circular textured sculpture on the wall, with a spiky burst sculpture and an encaustic painting of the American flag displayed nearby.

This tour isn't simply a celebration of the nation. Instead, it explores how artists have expressed love of country in many different ways—through admiration, aspiration, criticism, reflection, and hope. Moving beyond flags and patriotic symbols, these works reveal how artists have defined, questioned, and expanded ideas of what America is and what it might become.


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A profile wax relief portrait of George Washington, depicted with his hair tied in a queue, is mounted on a red velvet background inside an ornate, rectangular gold shadowbox frame.
Attributed to Patience Lovell Wright (1725–1786)
Profile Portrait of George Washington, c. 1784–86
Wax relief
9 ½ x 6 ¼ in.
Museum purchase, 2019.46
An oil painting by Horace Pippin depicts the abolitionist John Brown bound and sitting on his coffin in a horse-drawn wagon as it passes through a somber, grey-hatted crowd toward his execution.
Horace Pippin (1888–1946)
John Brown Going to His Hanging, 1942
Oil on canvas
24 1/8 x 30 1/4 in.
John Lambert Fund, 1943.11
An oil painting with an ornate gold frame captures a dramatic canyon landscape under a stormy sky, where sunbeams pierce through dark clouds to illuminate yellow and white rocky cliffs.
Thomas Moran (1837–1926)
Mists in the Yellowstone, 1908
Oil on canvas
30 x 45 in.
The Middleton Family Collection
An encaustic painting of the United States flag by Jasper Johns is framed and displayed on a museum wall above wooden wainscoting, positioned beneath a large, fibrous black sculpture.
Jasper Johns (b. 1930)
Flag, 1960–66
Encaustic and printed paper collage on paper laid down on canvas
17 1/2 x 26 3/4 in.
The Middleton Family Collection
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Stars, Stripes and Stories

This tour isn't simply a celebration of the nation. Instead, it explores how artists have expressed love of country in many different ways—through admiration, aspiration, criticism, reflection, and hope. Moving beyond flags and patriotic symbols, these works reveal how artists have defined, questioned, and expanded ideas of what America is and what it might become.
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