The Contemporary American West The realities of the modern West, the lives of both the urban and rural people, and the forms, colors, and the light of the natural world provide the catalysts for contemporary images that are created today. The modern western vision...
Pop Art & Beyond Around the early 1950s, John cage lay the groundwork for what was to become known as Pop Art, a term coined by a British art critic to describe images, which were borrowed from popular media. Cage called on artists to efface the boundary between...
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American Impressionism Impressionism is considered to be the first major modern art movement. It originated in France in the later part of the 19th century. Early Impressionists, both French and those Americans who were living in Europe, broke away from traditional...
Chicago Imagists (also known as three groups of artists: The Hairy Who, The Non-Plussed Some, and The False Image) What we refer to today as Chicago Imagism began evolving as early as post World War II in the strange paintings of Ivan Lorraine Albright, then later in...
The mission of The Midwest Museum of American Art in Elkhart, Indiana, is to acquire, exhibit and preserve works of art by past and present U.S. visual artists, thus illuminating, inspiring and conserving America’s visual heritage. Learn more
