Toward an American Identity: Selections from the Wichita Art Museum Wichita many have discovered and shared

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Toward an American Identity: Selections from the Wichita Art Museum Wichita many have discovered and sharedTelling the story of two independent women who created a premier collection of American art for their Midwestern hometown, this volume also provides commentary and handsome illustrations for the first national tour of American masterworks from the Wichita Art Museum. The exhibition and this catalogue focus upon the period of 1900 1950 when the nation's artists and critics sought to define what was "American" in American art. Among the artists featured