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Telling the story of two independent women who created a premier collection of American art for their Midwestern hometown, this volume also provides commentary and handsome illustrations for the first national tour of American masterworks from the Wichita Art Museum. The exhibition and this catalogue focus upon the period of 1900-1950 when the nation's artists and critics sought to define what was "American" in American art. Among the artists featured in the collection are Milton Avery, George Bellows, Charles Birchfield, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Ralston Crawford, John Steuart Curry, Stuart Davis, Willem De Kooning, Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Thomas Eakins, William Glackens, Grace Hartigan, Marsden Hartley, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, John Kane, Walt Kuhn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Jacob Lawrence, George Luks, John Marin, Reginald Marsh, Georgia O'Keeffe, Horace Pippin, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, John Sloan, Mark Tobey, John Henry Twachtman, Julian Alden Weir, Guy Carleton Wiggins, and others.