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American Culture

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Created by
David M Choberka
Last Updated
September 25, 2020 2:27 p.m.

50 Items in this Learning Collection
TV Culture and Criticism
Portrait of Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe.
Resource with 51 media
Artists of the Harlem Renaissance

Resource with 14 media
Black and African American Woman Artists
This image is a circular format black and white photograph depicting four young African American girls wearing floral dresses lounging on a blanket in the grass. Three girls sit or prop themselves up and look at the camera, the fourth girl lays down, with her eyes closed. The glass in the frame has a domed surface, creating a fish-eye effect.
Resource with 26 media
All Objects from South America, Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean
A print done in shades of gray of a home scene. A woman wearing a dress and holding a sun umbrella walks up the side stairs of a simple covered porch attached to the front of a wooden house. On the porch are two adult figures talking and three seated children, one of which sits on the stairs. A tall wooden fence with a door extends the front face of the house, out of which a young girl walks.
Resource with 381 media
American Orientalist art at the turn of the 20th century

Resource with 5 media
Arizona
Car being excavated in a desert scene.
Resource with 15 media
Art of the Works Progress Administration WPA

Resource with 175 media
Arts of Mexico

Resource with 158 media
Ashcan School

Resource with 29 media
Asian America in Art

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This drawing shows the head of a man. Sketched lines with shading around cheeks and eyes, which are closed, create the visage.  A faintly visible hat is sketched on the head. The drawing is signed (u.r.) "Anton Refregier." It may also say "San Francisco" although the handwriting is not clear.


This photograph depicts a view of a desert landscape with a fish hanging from the top of a thin pole in the foreground.  Behind the fish is a small cemetery that has mounds and crosses and in the distance are a few small buildings. Two more poles with fish hanging from them appear farther away in the image to the right of the fish in the foreground.
Photo of a woman in a floor-length and brightly striped formal gown standing in a multi-level staircase. The photo is taken from above and captures the woman, her companion, and the ornate handrail and stair runner.
An oil painting on canvas, this is an abstract painting predominantly using black and white oil paints. The background appears to be white paint with a black box on the upper half. The two colors are connected by a long black brushstroke down the middle. The brushstroke does not touch the edges of the canvas but instead takes up 2/3 of the canvas length-wise and 1/3 width-wise. 
This calm, horizontal abstract watercolor has registers of aquamarine, ochres, greens and dark blues. 

Collection with 10 items
Borders of Identity in North America
Photographed from atop a high ridge, this photograph depicts a view looking down into a winding desert canyon.
Resource with 87 media
Politics, and Social Reform in the US, 1901-1950

Resource with 234 media
California
This is a black and white photograph depicting an outdoor scene with dense vegetation. Leafy plants cover the ground in the front and taller bushes and trees are in the background. The viewpoint is from above looking down.
Resource with 127 media
Caribbean Objects
A color print of a small, square door in a wall. The opened door casts a long shadow on the wall.
Resource with 105 media
Cars and Car Culture

Resource with 78 media
Celebrity
Bust-length portrait of Marilyn Monroe positioned in front of a red background; Haring used a poster of the actress onto which he applied sumi ink in a series of outlines, marks and drips over the face, neck, chest and shoulders.
Resource with 110 media
Chicago
This black and white stereoscopic image features two images of the view looking through the inside of a Ferris wheel near the top. It is surrounded by the text: Set No. 8; Wanderings Among the Wonders and Beauties of Western Scenery; CHICAGO and VICINITY. 313. Looking through the Ferris Wheel, near the top.<br />
Resource with 25 media
Cowboys and Cowboy Art
A black and white phot of two men dressed in a Western style with a tent. One man is standing in front of the tent, while the other is sitting on a rolled up canvs in front of the tent.
Resource with 41 media
Detroit Metro

Resource with 131 media
Enrique Chagoya: Flipping Europe on its Head

Resource with 4 media
Exploring Identity and Identity Politics in American Culture
A blurred bust-length portrait of a man's head; he stares straight ahead, his mouth open.
Resource with 78 media
Film Noir, Visuality and Themes

Resource with 105 media
Folk, Self-taught, Amateur, and Visionary Art

Resource with 114 media
Indigenous North America Arts
Beige bowl, wider at the top, with a rim formed in a braided pattern.
Resource with 104 media
Latin American Revolutions and Civil Wars

Resource with 15 media
Maine

Resource with 21 media
Manifest Destiny and the American West

Resource with 76 media
Era of the Mexican Revolution and the Mexican Muralist Movement

Resource with 83 media
Montana
Car up on lifts surrounded by evergreen trees. The car is part of an excavation.
Resource with 5 media
New Mexico
A smaller tree with light colored leaves amongst many taller trees, foliage on bottom.
Resource with 12 media
New York City
Elevated view of traffic on an urban street. 
Resource with 127 media
Nineteenth-century American and European Representations of Wildlife

Resource with 51 media
Political Protest in the U.S.
Two women holding signs at a protest march. They are talking together on the side of a street.
Resource with 22 media
Race, Gender, Class, and American Identity
This is a line drawing done in colors of red, orange, blue, yellow, brown and green, on white paper. In the top center portion of the sheet are the words, "A LIE". Below this are forms that resemble an egg, a slice of bacon, a piece of bread with a pat of yellow butter. Below these forms are some round shapes, labeled "flakes", a bowl and a carton of milk, labeled "milk".
Resource with 343 media
Recreation, Leisure, and Sport in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century America

Resource with 130 media
Religion in the Americas
This is a photograph of a wooden sculpture from Huexotla, Mexico. The sculpture depicts a man with a crown of thorns.
Resource with 48 media
Religious Encounters in the New World

Resource with 30 media
Representations and Misrepresentations of Indigenous America

Resource with 65 media
Rust Belt
Two orange buildings on snow-covered ground on either side of an unplowed road.&nbsp;
Resource with 167 media
School and Education in the U.S.

Resource with 24 media
Southern Landscapes and Cityscapes
A foggy landscape with silhouetted trees recedes from the left into the hazy distance and sky. The corners of the images are vignetted and the&nbsp;photograph is toned with tea, giving it a light brown-peach color.&nbsp;
Resource with 36 media
U.S. Civil Rights Movement
A black and white photograph of a man&#39;s profile against a glass door. He faces to the viewer&#39;s left, head lowered and eyes closed.
Resource with 38 media
U.S. Civil War

Resource with 42 media
U.S. Freedom Struggles of the Long 1960s
Two women holding signs at a protest march. They are talking together on the side of a street.


A group of African Americans praying while kneeling on a street. There is concrete pavement and a brick building behind them.

A group of African Americans praying while kneeling on a street. There is concrete pavement and a brick building behind them.
Collection with 6 items
U.S. Radicalism

Resource with 66 media
U.S. Vietnam War

Resource with 11 media
U.S. Wars
Half-length seated portrait of a bearded man, his face in profile, wearing a military uniform.
Resource with 67 media
World War I Posters from the U.S.
Text: New Consecration is the Duty of the Living so that Our Dead Shall Not Have Died in Vain - (center) &quot;To such a task (Victory over German Autocracy and all it represents) we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to shed her blood and her treasure for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other.&quot; - Woodrow Wilson - (left panel heading) Al Soldier&#39;s Farewell - Written on the Even of his Departure &hellip; - (right panel heading) A Mother&#39;s Comfort - Words of Plato Console Now Whose Son Fell in Battle &hellip; - (bottom) &quot;You ask me when peace will come. We went into this war for a great and worthy object. Peace will come when that object has been attained. Before God I hope it may not come until that time.&quot; - Abraham Lincoln In Darkest Days of Civil War - Issued by
Resource with 178 media
WPA Woman Artists
Night view of New York City skyscrapers seen from above.
Resource with 41 media
Zombies, Skeletons, and the Undead

Resource with 101 media
Cultural Exchange

Copyright
Creative Commons by-nc-sa
Created by
David M Choberka
Last Updated
September 25, 2020 2:27 p.m.

20 Items in this Learning Collection
African Christianities

Resource with 8 media
American Orientalist art at the turn of the 20th century

Resource with 5 media
Asian America in Art

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This drawing shows the head of a man. Sketched lines with shading around cheeks and eyes, which are closed, create the visage.  A faintly visible hat is sketched on the head. The drawing is signed (u.r.) "Anton Refregier." It may also say "San Francisco" although the handwriting is not clear.


This photograph depicts a view of a desert landscape with a fish hanging from the top of a thin pole in the foreground. &nbsp;Behind the fish is a small cemetery that has mounds and crosses and in the distance are a few small buildings. Two more poles with fish hanging from them appear farther away in the image to the right of the fish in the foreground.
Photo of a woman in a floor-length and brightly striped formal gown standing in a multi-level staircase. The photo is taken from above and captures the woman, her companion, and the ornate handrail and stair runner.
An oil painting on canvas, this is an abstract painting predominantly using black and white oil paints. The background appears to be white paint with a black box on the upper half. The two colors are connected by a long black brushstroke down the middle. The brushstroke does not touch the edges of the canvas but instead takes up 2/3 of the canvas length-wise and 1/3 width-wise.&nbsp;
This calm, horizontal abstract watercolor has registers of aquamarine, ochres, greens and dark blues. 

Collection with 10 items
Before 1492

Resource with 484 media
Borders of Identity in North America
Photographed from atop a high ridge, this photograph depicts a view looking down into a winding desert canyon.
Resource with 87 media
Buddhism

Resource with 266 media
Caribbean Objects
A color print of a small, square door in a wall. The opened door casts a long shadow on the wall.
Resource with 105 media
Devotional Objects Across Religions
Gilded brass (or gilded copper alloy) standing Buddha on lotus pedestal with both hands raised in abhaya mudra.
Resource with 98 media
Early Modern Atlantic World
Goldweights are small objects cast from brass used to weigh out quantities of gold and gold dust. They are cast using a lost-wax casting technique, wherein wax is sculpted into the desired shape and a mold is pressed around the wax model. Then, the mold is heated and the wax drained out, leaving a void in the shape of the original wax model. Liquid brass is poured into the mold and allowed to set before the caster cracks the mold open and retrieves the finished goldweight.
Resource with 35 media
European Primitivisms
Four male figures face each other, one in a hat on the left and three on the right facing him. The figure in the center has one hand raised to his chest. The two men on the right are looking at the man in the center.
Resource with 53 media
Greek Cultural Influence

Resource with 142 media
Medieval Mediterranean
This large bronze faucet features a peacock spigot and a lion-headed spout.
Resource with 29 media
Occult Mysticism in Western Art
Photograph of a tableau from a Catholic church in Calvario, Patzuaro, Mexico. The scene includes a male figure at the center, with two women and one man arranged behind him.
Resource with 110 media
Orientalism

Resource with 57 media
Postcolonial Art

Resource with 31 media
Religion in the Americas
This is a photograph of a wooden sculpture from Huexotla, Mexico. The sculpture depicts a man with a crown of thorns.
Resource with 48 media
Religious Encounters in the New World

Resource with 30 media
Texts of islam

Resource with 22 media
Translating Homer

Resource with 16 media
Exchange and Influence on Global Trade Routes
This small, flat metal piece has a quartrefoil shape. Two holes in the middle. Flame-like incision all over the piece. Silver is applied around the center hole.

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Porcelain plate with raised brown rim. The inner circle uses blue underglaze painting to illustrate a jar with a lid that reads in kanji "fragrant orchid"
A view of steerage passengers gathered on two decks of a steamship.&nbsp;
A white earthenware box where the cover and the body are almost identical in form, the entire vessel of a short cylindrical from with flat top, with subtle articulation at the shoulder, on a shallow footring.  It is covered in blue, amber, and green glazes applied in a splotchy manner. 
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Stoneware jar with flaring foot and high rounded shoulders on a tapered body. It has an everted, flared foot, and short narrow neck covered with a flat lid with conical knob. The top three-quarters of the jar is covered in an amber-colored glaze. 

Collection with 10 items

Caribbean Objects

A color print of a small, square door in a wall. The opened door casts a long shadow on the wall.
Emilio Sanchez
La Ventanita
color lithograph on paper
21 3/4 in. x 21 1/2 in. ( 55.25 cm x 54.61 cm )
Gift of the Emilio Sanchez Foundation
View Object Record
Y. Verne
Voodoo Ritual
inlaid banana leaves and cane on cardboard
23 1/2 in x 42 in (59.69 cm x 106.68 cm)
Gift of Dr. James L. Curtis
View Object Record
At the center of this painting, there is a group of people arranged in a trianuglar shape. The figures are all dressed in colorful clothing, some of them are holding refreshments. At the bottom of the painting are two colorful roosters fighting. The figures get smaller as they recede into the background, though there is not a realistic spacial lanscape in which they stand. The background has a light rondel emanating from behind the figures and the rest is an aqua-blue. The painting is signed (u.r.) in red paint "Franck / Robuste".
Franck Robuste
Cock Fight
oil on canvas
22 1/2 in x 18 1/2 in (57.15 cm x 46.99 cm)
Gift of Dr. James L. Curtis
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A group of women gather to wash clothes in a river while a man looks on.
Kensel Franklin
Washing Clothes
oil on masonite
x 37 1/2 in. x 95.25 cm
Gift of Dr. James L. Curtis
View Object Record
A print done in shades of gray of a home scene. A woman wearing a dress and holding a sun umbrella walks up the side stairs of a simple covered porch attached to the front of a wooden house. On the porch are two adult figures talking and three seated children, one of which sits on the stairs. A tall wooden fence with a door extends the front face of the house, out of which a young girl walks.
Emilio Sanchez
Rincón de Cuba
black and white lithograph on paper
12 in. x 16 in. ( 30.48 cm x 40.64 cm )
Gift of the Emilio Sanchez Foundation
View Object Record
A color lithograph depicting the Flag of Cuba.
Emilio Sanchez
La Bandera de Cuba
color lithograph on paper
15 1/8 in x 23 1/8 in (38.42 cm x 58.74 cm);19 3/16 in x 26 3/4 in (48.74 cm x 67.95 cm)
Gift of the Emilio Sanchez Foundation
View Object Record
A color lithograph print depicting the yellow and blue color terrace corridor.
Emilio Sanchez
Casita Doble
color lithograph on paper
18 5/8 in x 32 1/8 in (47.31 cm x 81.6 cm);22 1/8 in x 35 in (56.2 cm x 88.9 cm)
Gift of the Emilio Sanchez Foundation
View Object Record
A color print of white sheets on a clothes line.
Emilio Sanchez
Tendedero
color lithograph on paper
8 3/4 in. x 12 3/16 in. ( 22.23 cm x 30.9 cm )
Gift of the Emilio Sanchez Foundation
View Object Record
A night city traffic view with cars headingn to the same direction, having all the car headlights on.
Emilio Sanchez
Crosstown Traffic
color lithograph on paper
22 in. x 10 in. ( 55.88 cm x 25.4 cm )
Gift of the Emilio Sanchez Foundation
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A number of sailboats are sailing on the deep green sea; and there are black and white clouds in the sky.
Emilio Sanchez
Barcos de Vela
color lithograph on paper
6 1/2 in x 24 1/2 in (16.5 cm x 62.23 cm);21 1/16 in x 29 7/16 in (53.5 cm x 74.77 cm)
Gift of the Emilio Sanchez Foundation
View Object Record
The shadow from the rising sun is cast over three doors. Each door is painted bright blue and the wall is yellow.
Emilio Sanchez
Madrugada/Sunrise
color lithograph on paper
21 5/8 in. x 30 in. ( 54.93 cm x 76.2 cm )
Gift of the Emilio Sanchez Foundation
View Object Record
A black and white print of the exterior columns of Boston City Hall.
Emilio Sanchez
New City Hall, Boston
black and white lithograph on paper
14 3/4 in. x 20 5/8 in. ( 37.47 cm x 52.39 cm )
Gift of the Emilio Sanchez Foundation
View Object Record
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American Orientalist art at the turn of the 20th century
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105 Collection Object Sources
La Ventanita (2011/2.103)
Voodoo Ritual (2011/2.187)
Cock Fight (2011/2.183)
Washing Clothes (2011/2.184)
Rincón de Cuba (2011/2.92)
Casita Doble (2011/2.66)
Tendedero (2011/2.125)
Barcos de Vela (2011/2.87)
Madrugada/Sunrise (2011/2.120)
New York Sunset (2011/2.137)
Ropa Vieja (2011/2.75)
Loft Windows (2011/2.84)
Tiendecitas (2011/2.97)
Margaritas (2011/2.106)
El Cafecito (2011/2.112)
Los Toldos (2011/2.118)
Los Toldos (2011/2.119)
Barbados Children (2011/2.122)
Florecitas (2011/2.107)
La Regata (2011/2.71)
Las Cabañas (2011/2.73)
Palmaras (2011/2.89)
Una Casita (2011/2.91)
35 Calle Sol (2011/2.105)
Una Casa Cubana (2011/2.110)
Chimineas (2011/2.94)
Casita de Madera (2011/2.104)
Callecita (2011/2.108)
Casita Blanca (2011/2.109)
Ty's Place (2011/2.114)
Center Ring (2011/2.117)
Apurate Dolores (2011/2.121)
Nueva York (2011/2.81)
Calle del Sol (2011/2.90)
Casita de Campo (2011/2.98)
Casitas al Sol (2011/2.99)
Casita de Gloria (2011/2.111)
Ty's Place (2011/2.113)
Casita al Mar (2011/2.115)
Casita al Mar (2011/2.116)
La Casa Grande (2011/2.64)
La Casita Azul (2011/2.72)
Flores de Campo (2011/2.101)
Casa Vivienda (2011/2.88)
La Ventanita (2011/2.102)
La Fortaleza (2011/2.63)
Toldos Blancos (2011/2.83)
Eve with Apple (2011/2.182)
Village Wedding (2011/2.185)
Electrician, Cuba (2014/2.307)
Printed Cotton (1972/2.339)

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