<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A. B. Frost faithfully recorded the woodland pursuits of himself and his affluent friends</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A remarkable collection of daguerreotypes by the St. Louis photographer Thomas Easterly illuminates the zest and chaos of city life in the Age of Expansion</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> said a New York newspaper when the Metropolitan opened its American Wing in 1924. This spring, a new, grander American Wing once again displays the collection that Lewis Mumford found “not merely an exhibition of art,” but “a pageant of American history.”</span> </span></p>
<p>When Winifred Smith Rieber confidently agreed to paint a group portrait of America’s five pre-eminent philosophers, she had no idea it would be all but impossible even to get them to stay in the same room with one another. </p>
<p><span class="deck">Declaring himself a “thorough democrat” George Caleb Bingham portrayed the American voter with an artist’s eye—and a seasoned politicians savvy</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> War, patriotism, nature, and changing taste— all have been mirrored in our wallpaper</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> “I’ll plan anything a man wants,” he said, “from a cathedral to a chicken coop.” The monumental results transformed American architecture</span> </span></p>
