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Off the Beaten Track: A Road Trip through the Archives of American Art

Archives of American Art

Join us on a road trip through the Archives of American Art. The photographs, sketches, diaries, correspondence, and video recordings on view reveal how artists have shaped and are shaped by their surroundings, from the 1830's to the 2000's. These materials lead us off the beaten track, offering unexpected insight into local and regional histories as well as personal stories of exploration, immigration, and migration. Together, documents from all 50 states and the District of Columbia represent the diversity and depth of art in the United States.

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Photograph of interior of Colin de Land's car

Stereocard of Hiram Power's childhood home, Woodstock, Vermont

Preparatory sketch for a retablo

New Hampshire sketchbook

Untitled (Yale Golf Course lightsound installation)

Photograph of Lonnie Holley with artwork

Alaska sketchbook

Photograph of Jackson, Sande, and LeRoy Pollock at the Grand Canyon

Fruit jars being sterilized on old lady Graham's back fence in berry season

Sketch of "Old Arsenal" cupola, New Castle, Delaware

Photograph of Surrounded Islands

Photograph of Howard Finster's Paradise Garden

Diary entry

Script for Seven Kabuki Plays

Detail of a beauty salon sign

Photograph of model for the Roofless Church in New Harmony, Indiana by Philip Johnson

Photograph of Grant Wood and his ice wagon

Sketchbook

Henry Mosler Civil War diary

Jacob Lawrence, New Orleans, Louisiana letter to Edith Gregor Halpert, New York, New York

Photograph of Salvatore Scarpitta racing his car at Hagerstown Raceway

Eero Saainen to his wife Aline Saarinen

"WARM: Artists who came in from the Cold," The Twin Cities Reader

Photograph of basketry class at the Delta Art Center, Greenville, Mississippi

George Catlin's notebook #6

W. Langdon Kihn letter to his parents

Another Map to Nevada

Oscar Bluemner study The dance of factory life, etc., etc.

The Pines dining hall at the Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina

Could the glass capital become glass arts center?

Photograph of sisters in the open Cloister Walk at the Convent of the Annunciation

Sketchbook of Newport, Oregon landscapes

Jewelry bench room at the Rhode Island School of Design

Blanche Lazzell diary

Carving of Abraham Lincoln at Mount Rushmore


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