American Art
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...architecture , and Canadian art and architecture . The...to cultivate the fine arts extensively. Colonial...models. The 17th-century limners , generally...new standard for these arts. John Singer Sargent...Century Among early 20th-century American sculptors...were important to the art student and public alike...importantly, in the 20th cent. American art turned to the exploitation...strongly influenced all the arts. Meanwhile, the development...expressive capacities of modern European art opened...