LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of
Art (LACMA) presents American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915, a
major exhibition highlighting the variety and strength of
American artistic achievement during an epochal century and a half, from the
colonial era through the period leading to World War I. American
Stories—the first survey of American narrative painting in more than thirty-five
years—features over seventy works, including loans from leading museums and
private collections, as well as key works from LACMA’s collection. LACMA’s
presentation—the exhibition’s only West Coast showing—will be on view in
the museum’s Art of the Americas building from February 28 through May 23,
2010.