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  • Stuart Davis, <i>Composition</i>,1935, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Evander Childs High School, Bronx, New York through the General Services Administration Eye Level
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    Stuart Davis, <i>Composition</i>,1935, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Evander Childs High School, Bronx, New York through the General Services Administration

    Stuart Davis, Composition,1935, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Evander Childs High School, Bronx, New York through the General Services Administration

  • American Hearts; Lyriciss; More Humans by Byran Johns Luce Unplugged Community Showcase
    presented with the City Paper
    May 31, 6pm
    American Hearts; Lyriciss; More Humans by Byran Johns

    American Hearts; Lyriciss; More Humans by Byran Johns

  • 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

  • Roger Shimomura, Diary: December 12, 1941 (detail), 1980. Acrylic on canvas, 50 1/4 x 60 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of the artist Spring Issue
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    Roger Shimomura, Diary: December 12, 1941 (detail), 1980. Acrylic on canvas, 50 1/4 x 60 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of the artist

    Roger Shimomura, Diary: December 12, 1941 (detail), 1980. Acrylic on canvas, 50 1/4 x 60 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of the artist

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