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Discover works by Thomas Struth and learn about the artist
print ·  Accession ID  2023.53.4 Artwork Thomas Struth, Wangfujing Dong Lu, Shanghai

During the 1830s, traveling with fur company representatives, cavalry officers, and later alone on multiple western journeys, George Catlin gathered drawings, sketches, and notes that would allow him to create an “Indian Gallery�—a collection of more than 500 paintings of American Indians. By the end of the decade, he would be widely recognized as the most celebrated painter of America’s native people.
Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation, National Art Museum of China, Beijing; Shanghai

Rush Hour, New York is arguably the most important of Max Weber’s early modernist works that capture early 20th-century New York City’s ultramodern urban spirit. The painting achieves a remarkably vivid sense of the city’s frenetic pace through the artist’s adaptation of both the shallow, fragmented spaces of cubism and the rapid-fire, repeating forms of Italian futurism.
Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation, National Art Museum of China, Beijing; Shanghai

Learn about the architect behind our iconic East Building.
His family moved to Hong Kong when he was one and then to the quickly modernizing Shanghai

Discover the artist’s “East Meets Westâ€� series from the 1970s and 1980s exploring American identity and exclusion.
After the party took control of mainland China in 1949, Tseng’s family fled Shanghai

We glimpse the harrowing drama unfolding in this painting, as if we are crouching by the roots of the tropical foliage and peering through a space between the leaves. Our focus is on the anonymous silhouettes of men and women, their shackles more prominent than their features.
Fair World: A History of World’s Fairs and Expositions From London to Shanghai 1851

The exhibition of Home, Sweet Home in the spring of 1863 auspiciously marked Winslow Homer’s debut as a painter. The painting was enthusiastically admired.
Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation, National Art Museum of China, Beijing; Shanghai

Sensational and scandalous for an American audience unused to seeing classically nude statues of women, this figure by Hiram Powers caused a frenzy when it was first exhibited in the mid-19th century. Curious viewers came in droves to see it after Powers sent several copies from Italy, where he created the work.
In Fair World: A History of World’s Fairs and Expositions From London to Shanghai