Built during the proliferation of American skyscrapers in the early 20th century, they represent ... Hood was born in Rhode Island in 1881, when industrial building technology was changing how ...

By the early 20th ... building in Greenwich Village, was one of many shirtwaist factories operating in Manhattan at the time. This boom in industry helped solidify New York's status as an ...

The definition of American folk art is notoriously difficult to pin down. In the twentieth century “folk art” has embraced ... looked to the pre-industrial past for “the simple and unaffected ...

Their traditions have since inspired the American Left, old and new ... notably Chicago in the first decade of the century. Still, by 1912 or so, most of the cultural radicals of this generation ...