Ned Rorem 1923–2022 Birthplace: Richmond, Indiana
Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) Birthplace: Lawrence, Massachusetts
Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867–1972) Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts
William Grant Still (1895–1978) Birthplace: Woodville, Mississippi
Aaron Copland (1900–1990) Birthplace: New York City, New York
Craig Urquhart (b. 1953) Birthplace: East Lansing, Michigan
John Corigliano (b. 1938) Birthplace, New York City, New York
JJ Hollingsworth (b. 1956) Birthplace: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Daron Hagen (b. 1961) Birthplace: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Robert Sirota (b. 1949) Birthplace: New York, New York
Margaret Bonds (1913–1972) Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois
Florence Price (1887–1953) Birthplace: Little Rock, Arkansas
Declaration of Independence John Trumbull
Sunset View Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828–1901) Birthplace: New Brunswick, Canada Moved to Boston in 1848 First African American artist to win a national award
Photo of Immigrants
Abigail Smith Adams Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828) Birthplace: Saunderstown, Rhode Island Colony
The Concert Singer Thomas Eakins (1844–1916) Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Yosemite Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902) Birthplace: Solingen, Prussia Emigrated to New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1832
Welcome to the Land of Freedom From Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper July 2, 1887
George Washington Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828) Birthplace: Saunderstown, Colony of Rhode Island
The Music Lesson John George Brown (1831–1913) Birthplace: Durham, England Moved to New York in 1853
The Cowboy Frederic Remington (1861–1909) Birthplace: Canton, New York
Thomas Jefferson John Trumbull (1756–1843) Birthplace: Lebanon, Connecticut
Harriett Tubman’s Personal Hymnal
Up Above the World James E. Allen (1894–1964) Birthplace: Louisiana, Missouri
View on the Catskill Thomas Cole (1801–1848) Birthplace: Lancashire, England Moved to Ohio in 1818
Washington and Lafayette at Mount Vernon, 1784 Thomas Pritchard Rossiter (1818–1871) Birthplace: New Haven, Connecticut Louis Remy Mignot (1831–1870) Birthplace: Charleston, South Carolina
The Mountain Fjord Thomas Cole (1801–1848) Birthplace: Lancashire, England Moved to Ohio in 1818
The Maine Coast Winslow Homer (1836–1910) Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts
The Farm Alfred Thomas Brichner (1837–1908) Birthplace: Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences, or The Genius of America Encouraging the Emancipation of the Blacks Samuel Jennings (1755–1834) Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Seventh Regiment on Review, Washington Square, New York Otto Boetticher (1811–1886) Emigrated to New York, 1848
Paul Revere N.C. Wyeth (1882–1945) Birthplace: Needham, Massachusetts
Moonlight on Mount Lafayette William Trost Richards (1833–1905) Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Giants of the Desert Louis W. Teel (1883–1960) Birthplace: Clarksville, Texas
Declaration of Independence John Trumbull
Idle Hours William Merritt Chase (1849–1916) Birthplace: Nineveh, Indiana
Thomas Jefferson’s Portable Desk Used to write the Declaration of Independence
Two Miners William Wolfson (1894–1966) Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Belated Party on Mansfield Mountain Jerome B. Thompson (1814–1886) Birthplace: Middleboro, Massachusetts
Alice Gerson in Prospect Park William Merritt Chase (1849–1916) Birthplace: Nineveh, Indiana
Alexander Hamilton John Trumbull (
A Cloudy Day, Bluebonnets near San Antonio Julian Onderdonk (1882-1922)
A Calvaryman’s Breakfast on the Plains Frederic S. Remington (1861-1909) Birthplace: Canton, New York
- James E. Allen
- Edward Mitchell Bannister
- Albert Bierstadt
- Otto Boetticher
- Alfred Thomas Brichner
- John George Brown
- William Merritt Chase
- Thomas Cole
- Thomas Eakins
- Winslow Homer
- Samuel Jennings
- Louis Remy Mignot
- Julian Onderdonk
- Frederic Remington
- William Trost Richards
- Thomas Pritchard Rossiter
- Gilbert Stuart
- Henry Ossawa Tanner
- Louis W. Teel
- Jerome B. Thompson
- John Trumbull
- William Wolfson
- N.C. Wyeth
“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearth-stone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
–Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address (1861)
There is a dream in the land
With its back against the wall.
By muddled names
and strange
Sometimes the dream is called.There are those who claim
This dream for theirs alone –
A sin fro which we know
They must atone.Unless shared in common
Like sunlight and like air,
The dream will die for lack
Of substance anywhere.The dream knows no frontier or tongue,
The dream no class or race.
The dream cannot be kept secure
In any one looked place.This dream today embattled,
–Langston Hughes, Dream of Freedom
With its back against the wall –
To save the dream for one
It must be saved for ALL –
Our dream of freedom!
“But in this country we have one great privilege which they don’t have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That’s the finest asset we’ve got – the ballot box.”
–Mark Twain
“America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
–Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
–Martin Luther King, Jr.
“in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors…Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion…”
–Abigail Smith Adams
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
–Frederick Douglass