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It's Independence Day for the nation's largest, most comprehensive collection of American art. The holdings of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, much of which was locked away for the past six years while its historic Washington, D.C., home underwent a renovation, are now back on public view--with a new story to tell. Thousands of paintings, sculptures, photographs, crafts and folk-art pieces dating from 1700 to the present have been reinstalled to create "a complete American art experience," says chief curator Eleanor Jones Harvey. "We have always shown you masterpieces, but ...

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