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Course: The Seeing America Project > Unit 9
Lesson 3: 1870-1980- The light of democracy — examining the Statue of Liberty
- Francisco Oller, Still Life with Plantains and Bananas and Still Life with Coconuts
- Celebrating America's place in the world
- Winslow Homer, Searchlight on Harbor Entrance, Santiago de Cuba
- Armando García Menocal, Campesino y soldado español (Peasant and Spanish soldier)
- Cuban cigars, Cuban independence
- Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Good Shepherd
- Beyond New York — Bellows and World War I
- Walter Ufer, Hunger
- Rosa Rolanda, Self-Portrait
- The Pueblo Modernism of Velino Shije Herrera
- Claes Oldenburg, Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks
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Winslow Homer, Searchlight on Harbor Entrance, Santiago de Cuba
Winslow Homer, Searchlight on Harbor Entrance, Santiago de Cuba, 1902, oil on canvas, 77.5 x 128.3 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) on display in the exhibition, "1898: Visual Culture and U.S. Imperialism in the Caribbean and the Pacific" at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Speakers: Dr. Kate Clarke Lemay, Acting Senior Historian, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Smarthistory.