The glory of nature captured with passion and grace!

A Walker Evans photograph and a Joseph Stella painting

This is an homage to one of the most lilting and beautiful structures in New York and the world. Its art deco grandeur survives with authority and wonder.

American impressionism, WWI, red, white, and blue, and the love of a parade

Populist paintings about the roots of our own democracy, narrated with enthusiasm and care by Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul, and Mary

Mothers and children

A beautiful comparison of two great works — one a monumental re-imagining of an outsized historic moment — the other an “in-the-moment” photograph

The persistence of the American gothic notion of mood and architecture in photography, film, film design, even cartoon; the evocative loneliness of Hopper

African-American themes depicted by African-American artists

This piece showcases the American Indian traditions themselves as well as our desires to keep Indian lore within a certain context.

A living and functioning church full of history, sentiment, and various religious influences

“Migrant Mother” is one of the most haunting images of American lore. Its resonance has increased with a threatening economy.

A portrait and a depiction of the famous ride

An array of American quilts with an emphasis on the sumptuous Amish quilts of Lancaster County, PA and the more common and entertaining “crazies”

American landscapes, one bucolic and the other an industrialized setting evoking the River Rouge Ford Motor Co plant outside Detroit

The Civil War, its nobility and its toll, during and after

Illustration expanding ways of seeing our great statesmen

Shot on the Schuykill River in Philadelphia, the real location of the painting

A lovely re-enactment of an 18th century tea party complete with silversmith in the Paul Revere tradition

The noble savage and the great representative of personal freedom — both encompassing those emotions

The decorative arts!

Home and what comprises home – both as a depiction of patrimony and in the natural world

Light, landscape, color, westward expansion

Collage; the instincts of a master putting it together, bit by bit, sound by sound, stroke by stroke, piece by piece

Native American and African traditions depicting roots and routes of migration and culture