Private Collection / Smithsonian American Art Museum At the start of the 19th century, the United States ... mightily to the prosperity of New York City and brought commercial civilization to ...

In plainer language, people live in the city or they live in the country. Throughout the nineteenth ... of the twentieth century. Cities became the location of most of American life: politically ...

The City of Light shone like a beacon for many ... However, as this exhibition makes clear, most of the late-19th-century American painters in Paris were conformists, not visionaries.