In a time of ever-evolving technocracy, take a look back at the genius of America's first great innovators. The Smithsonian celebrates the age of endless possibility and inventive energy in the 19th-century U.S. See 162 paintings, models and more from John James Audubon to Winslow Homer, as well as a few adventurous experiments that went awry.
To learn more about this exhibition, visit americanart.si.edu.
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