Smithsonian American Art Museum
Young America: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
January 3, 2000 – May 29, 2003
Trace the transformation from colonies to nationhood from about 1760 to the decade after the Civil War in this exhibition. It includes portraits by John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, Charles Willson Peale, and Thomas Sully from the Revolutionary War era; landscapes by Thomas Cole, Thomas Birch, and Alvan Fisher; views of the Old World by Elihu Vedder and Jasper Cropsey; marble sculptures by Horatio Greenough and Hiram Powers; and works by Samuel Colman and Homer Dodge Martin that depict the industrial transformation of the American landscape.
Gift Book: Young America: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
