'Childhood' art at Smithsonian.(ARTS & CULTURE)(ART)

From: The Washington Times | Date: July 1, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Joanna Shaw-Eagle, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Winslow Homer's iconic "Snap the Whip" sets an optimistic stage for the Smithsonian American Art Museum's "American ABC: Childhood in 19th-Century America", an instructional and handsome survey of America's ideals and difficulties in that period.

This distinct display, part of the Smithsonian Institution's grand opening of the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, shows how images of childr...

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