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These Voices, These Faces was a portion of the gallery assembled for African Past: Migrant Present. Near the beginning of the exhibition it was intended as a wall display to place the viewer of the gallery squarely in the shoes of the creators of the…

Magazine illustration dates to a period when women’s suffrage and socialism were commingling in productive new ways. Here, a recurring column on labor issues makes a point to have both men and women in an Atlas-like pose of bearing the burden of…

Cover illustration of a children's book on the famous 19th-century daredevil, known for his death-defying leaps from Passaic Falls, NJ, and eventually Niagara Falls in 1829. Not long after that event, Patch staged a jump from the Middle Falls in…

The title of this painting isn't clear; it's inscribed as "Gray Day" on the frame, but listed as "The Two Birches" in its NDG and General Services Administration records--which is followed here for the sake of institutional continuity. The canvas…

Vivid colors are accentuated via the time of day at which this painting is set—either at sunrise or sunset—and by comparison to a pale blue sky. The titular “spring tree” probably is a cherry in bloom, but a taller one also seems to display blossoms.…