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The Picturing America collection brings the story of our nation to life through high-quality color reproductions of masterpieces of American art.

Join us fireside at the Crooked Tree District Library in Walloon Lake for a unique program featuring the Picturing America collection.  Pamela Rambow will be our host while we take a look at American art and learn techniques for appreciating what is pictured.

Title:     SMART - Elements of Art Appreciation
Date:     Mondays July 19-August 16
Time:     7:30-8:30PM


July 19
Looking at Portraits
Paul Revere by John Singleton Copley
Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange
Summer of 1996 by Pamela Rambow


July 26
Visions of Architecture
Mission Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion (Mission Style Architecture)
American Landscape by Charles Sheeler
House by the Railroad by Edward Hopper


August 2
Bridges of the Future
Brooklyn Bridge by Walker Evans
Brookyln Bridge by Joseph Stella
Ladder for Booker T. Washington by Martin Puryear


August 9
Exploding Potters
1100-1960s Variety of potters
Current Potter, Bonny Elkins


August 16
People of North America
George Catlin Painting the Portrait of Ma-To-Toh-Pa, George Catlin
The Sources of Country Music by Thomas Hart Benton
Selma to Montgomery March for Voting Rights by James Karales