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Reflections on The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock, British Museum, London; Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham; Brighton Museum and Art Gallery; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, April 2008–December 2009
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 August 2010
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It is tempting to regard the remarkable success of this exhibition of works from the British Museum's American prints collection, as it toured England, as a response to the demise of the Bush Administration and the election of Barack Obama. However, George W. Bush was in the White House throughout the period when these prints were on display at the British Museum from April to September 2008.
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- Journal of American Studies , Volume 44 , Issue 3: Hurricane Katrina: Five Years After , August 2010 , pp. 613 - 625
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References
1 James McNeil Whistler, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (Project Gutenberg, 2008), 30, http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/4/6/5/24650/24650-h.zip.
2 Stephen Coppel, with Jerzy Kierkuc-Bielinski, The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock (London: British Museum Press, 2008). Online collection at www.britishmuseum.org.
3 Ibid., 68.
4 In its various locations, the exhibition benefited from accompanying lectures by American studies specialists from a number of universities, among them Birmingham, Central Lancashire, King's College, Leicester, Manchester, Nottingham and Sussex.