For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design Vladem Contemporary and features

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The cards’ content is as diverse as their subjects

Gustave Baumann became a preeminent woodcut artist

Maya Angelou • Jane Austen • Ruby Bridges • Rachel Carson • Shirley Chisholm • Marie Curie & Irène Joliot Curie • Isadora Duncan • Amelia Earhart • Artemisia Gentileschi • Grace Hopper • Dolores Huerta • Frida Kahlo • Billie Jean King • Audre Lorde • Wilma Mankiller • Toni Morrison • Michelle Obama • Sandra Day O’Connor • Sally Ride • Eleanor Roosevelt • Margaret Sanger • Sappho • Nina Simone • Gloria Steinem • Kanno Sugako • Harriet Tubman • Mae West • Virginia Woolf • Malala Yousafzai

Cast in bronze from real sage leaves and twigs with a soft green patina finish

For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design Vladem Contemporary and featuresA sweeping look at the ways American artists have viewed themselves, their peers, and their painted worlds over two centuries This stunning book provides an unprecedented glimpse into the past two centuries of American art, tracing artistic tradition and innovation at the National Academy of Design from its 19th century founding to the present. The nations oldest artist honorary society has maintained a unique collecting principle: each member gives a