America’s Evolution through Art
The American Evolution: A History through Art examines America’s history through its art, from colonial times to modern day America. Wealth and poverty, our American land, politics, cultural change, and the modern world are themes in the 200 piece collection at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
The American Evolution explores how American art and its artistic reflection of life have evolved side by side with American culture.
The American Evolution: A History through Art
The Corcoran Gallery of Art
500 17th Street, NW – at New York Avenue
Washington DC 20006 (map it)
Tickets - Exhibition tickets including museum entrance fee - Adults - $12.00, Seniors. military and students with ID - $10.00, kids under 6 are free. Admission without the exhibit is $6.00. Tickets are available online.
Dates and Times - Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday - 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Thursday until 9:00 p.m., closed Tuesdays. Through July 27, 2008.
Nearest Metro subway station - Farragut West – Orange, Blue lines or Farragut North - Red line, then a 3-block walk.
Images - courtesy of The Corcoran Gallery of Art - Gilbert Stuart, George Washington, after 1796, Oil on canvas, 29¼×24 in., Bequest of Mrs. Benjamin Ogle Tayloe 02.3, Andy Warhol, Mao, 1973, Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas, 50 1/8×42¼×1¼ in., Gift of the FRIENDS of the Corcoran Gallery of Art 1976.44, © 2008 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, New York, Winslow Homer, A Light on the Sea, 1897, Oil on canvas, 28¼×48¼ in., Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund 07.3, John George Brown, The Longshoremen’s Noon, 1879, Oil on canvas, 33¼x50¼ in., Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund 00.4.
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