A Good Day’s Work” repositions Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses (1860–1961) as a multidimensional force in American art, whose beloved painted recollections of rural life earned her a distinctive ...

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After generations of struggle for suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1919 and ratified in August 1920. To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, ...

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Object Details Designed by Gail Anderson, American, born 1962 Printed by McDonald's Corporation, American, founded 1955 Subject of Apollo Theater, American, founded 1934 Caption Gail Anderson is a New ...

Object Details Maker Albert Osabu Bartimeus, born 1927, Ghana Description Framed oil on canvas painting depicting a scene from the Asante royal court in Ghana in a jewel-tone impasto. A man (the ...

Object Details Created by Mujeres Tejedoras de Mampuján, Colombian, founded 2006 Designed by Juana Alicia Ruiz Hernandez, Colombian Caption In 2006, a group of women in Mampuján, Colombia formed a ...

Object Details Photograph by Stephen Shames, American, born 1947 Subject of Angela Y. Davis, American, born 1944 Fania E. Davis Ph.D., American Eisa Davis, American, born 1971 Unidentified Woman or ...