To prove his thesis, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art has put on view 23 ot Wesselmann’s pictures dedicated to ‘the Great American Nude.” Accompanying them are five of the pristine ...

But what about ‘The Great American Painting’? Surely the ability to capture the complex spirit of a nation – the tension between its loftier aspirations and tawdrier flaws – is not limited ...

If, as Anna Julia Cooper, a 19 th Century Black writer, activist and educator, wrote “Black Americans are ‘the great American fact,” then Sherald in her paintings is just stating facts.

“It’s also about the life of the artist and about teaching -- in the painting, the wrestler is being taught. It’s an everyday subject, right in your face -- a great American painting.

The Great War wasn't only joined in the trenches ... Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia titled World War I and American Art. You have these artists who are thinking, basically, here's this ...