Fighting for the West
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PrintConcerns the controversial exhibit "The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820-1920" at the National Museum of American Art, now known as the Smithsonian American Art Museum, in 1991. Describes the debate over the exhibit in a Senate Appropriations Committee and the complaints of a perversion of history by the Smithsonian. Article defends the Smithsonian's analytical approach to American history and art in the exhibit.
Smithsonian Institution History Bibliography
The Nation (Journal)
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
July 29/August 5, 1991
pp. 163-166