Collection: Americana

Freedom from Want (1943) by Normal Rockwell, also known as The Thanksgiving Picture or I'll Be Home for Christmas, is the third of the Four Freedoms series inspired by FDR's 1941 State of the Union Address, known as Four Freedoms. It was ➵

Gas (1940) by Edward Hopper depicts a Mobil gas station, and an attendant working alone at the pumps as night falls. The modern details of the fuel pump, sign and electric lighting contrast with the twilight sky and dense pine forest in ➵

A Dash for the Timber (1889) by Frederic Remington depicts eight men on horseback pursued by a group of Native Americans. Having not yet reached the trees, with one man struck by a bullet, it is not clear who will emerge victorious. ➵

Hunter's Supper (1909) by Frederic Remington, also known as Hunters' Camp in the Big Horn, depicts a group of frontiersmen gathered around a campfire at dusk, showing a moment of relaxation surrounded by a harsh frontier. The orange and red glow of ➵

The Cowboy (1902) by Frederic Remington depicts cowboy riding a horse down a steep, rocky incline. A solitary, heroic figure, symbol of the American West, the cowboy is attired in a wide-brimmed hat, chaps, and boots. Remington's fluid brushwork and focus on ➵

The Old Stage-Coach of the Plains (1901) by Frederic Remington depicts a stagecoach led by a team of six horses, descending a steep slope, while a lookout on top of the coach, rifle in hand, looks back towards some unseen danger. The ➵

An Indian Trapper (1889) by Frederic Remington depicts a Native American man on horseback, holding a rifle, looking back down the mountain trail he is traveling. Farther up the trail are two others on horseback, transporting animal carcasses from a successful hunt. ➵

Cape Cod Evening (1939) by Edward Hopper depicts a woman and man in front of a Victorian house, surrounded by trees and long grass. The man is unsuccessfully attempting to summon a collie standing in the yard, alerted by something out of ➵

New York Movie (1939) by Edward Hopper depicts a nearly empty movie theater with only a few moviegoers, and an usher lost in her thoughts, continuing a common theme of separation and loneliness in public places. It is one of his most ➵

House by the Railroad (1925) by Edward Hopper depicts a Victorian mansion isolated in an empty landscape, blocked off by railroad tracks in the foreground. He insisted that his paintings were straightforward representations of the real world, but as seen here, they ➵

Nighthawks (1942) by Edward Hopper is his most recognizable painting and one of the most famous in American art. Various artists have produced works that allude, parody or pay homage to it in literature, film, television, music and other paintings. It depicts ➵

Chop Suey (1929) by Edward Hopper pays particular attention to the effects of light in the scene, and similar to Nighthawks, there is an element of loneliness as each figure seems isolated and withdrawn from the others. It depicts two women seated ➵

The Outlier (1909) by Frederic Remington is one of the last works he completed before his death in 1909. It depicts a Native American man alone in the wilderness on horseback, rifle in hand, with the sun setting behind him. The United ➵

The Fall of the Cowboy (1895) by Frederic Remington depicts two cowboys at the gate of a barbed wire fence, a ranching technology that beginning in the 1870s signaled the end of cowboy life. It divides the painting in half, symbolically fencing ➵

Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (1871) by James McNeill Whistler, best known as Whistler's Mother, or Portrait of the Artist's Mother, is one of the most famous works outside the United States by an American artist. When first exhibited, the ➵

American Gothic (1930) by Grant Wood is one of the most famous American paintings of the 20th century. Wood was inspired to paint the house in Eldon, Iowa, along with "the kind of people I fancied should live in that house." The ➵