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Summary

Adresses the exhibit "The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820-1920" and the controversy it has raised. Discusses the attack on the exhibition and the Smithsonian Institution by senators, the cancellation of the exhibition in Denver and St. Louis, and the revision of wall texts in the exhibit.

Subject

  • National Museum of American Art (U.S.)
  • United States Congress

Contained within

The Washington Post (Newspaper)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, [email protected]

Category

Smithsonian Institution History Bibliography

Date

  • June 2, 1991
  • 1991

Topic

  • Art
  • Art, American
  • Controversies
  • Ethnology
  • Exhibitions
  • History
  • Art--History
  • Art objects

Place

  • United States
  • North America

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