LACMA Presents 150 Years of American Masterpieces

William Sidney Mount - "The Power of Music", 1847 - 17 1/16 x 21 1/16 inches. The Cleveland Museum of Art. ©The Cleveland Museum of Art.

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.

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