Upcoming Exhibition
Dear America: Artists Explore the American Experience
Details
What does it mean to be American? How have artists examined this question?
More than 100 works on paper show how artists have explored the American experience over the last 250 years through depictions of the country’s landscape, people, and concepts of freedom. Wide-ranging works include photographs by Carleton Watkins, Dorothea Lange, and Carrie Mae Weems; prints by Thomas Hart Benton, Roy Lichtenstein, and Rupert García; and drawings by Thomas Moran, John Wilson, and Tonita Peña.
Organization
Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington
Curated by Angélica Becerra, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow; Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head of photographs; Rena Hoisington, curator and head of Old Master prints; and Shelley Langdale, curator and head of modern prints and drawings, all of the National Gallery of Art
