The definition of American folk art is notoriously difficult to pin down. In the twentieth century “folk art” has embraced everything from Pennsylvania German frakturs to eccentric architectural ...

conceptual art, architecture, and design after 1900. This course encompasses modernisms in Europe, the Americas and Japan, alongside contexts of colonialism, cultural appropriation, and gender-based ...

Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half represents the synthesis and peak of Ruscha’s masterpieces of the early 1960s,” Max ...

The collections highlighted below are a small part of our 19th and 20th century collections. Most of the materials in these collections and many others can be located through Library Search.

Click the image for a short interactive piece on this famous print by Hokusai: Course description: This is a survey of avant-garde modern art from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth ...