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Estados Unidos

Os Estados Unidos da América , ou simplesmente Estados Unidos , são uma república constitucional federal composta por 50 estados e um distrito federal. A maior parte do país situa-se na região central da América do Norte, formada por 48 estados e Washington, D.C., o distrito federal da capital. Banhado pelos oceanos Pacífico e Atlântico, faz fronteira com o Canadá ao norte e com o México ao sul. O estado do Alasca está no noroeste do continente, fazendo fronteira com o Canadá no leste e com a Rússia a oeste, através do estreito de Bering. O estado do Havaí é um arquipélago no Pacífico Central. O país também possui vários outros territórios no Caribe e no Oceano Pacífico. Com 9,37 milhões de km² de área e uma população de mais de 300 milhões de habitantes, o país é o quarto maior em área total, o quinto maior em área contígua e o terceiro em população. Os Estados Unidos são uma das nações mais multiculturais e etnicamente diversas do mundo, produto da forte imigração vinda de muitos países. Sua geografia e sistemas climáticos também são extremamente diversificados, com desertos, planícies, florestas e montanhas que abrigam uma grande variedade de espécies. Os paleoindígenas, que migraram da Ásia há quinze mil anos, habitam o que é hoje o território dos Estados Unidos até os dias atuais. Esta população nativa foi muito reduzida após o contato com os europeus devido a doenças e guerras. Os Estados Unidos foram fundados pelas treze colônias do Império Britânico localizadas ao longo da sua costa atlântica. Em 4 de julho de 1776, foi emitida a Declaração de Independência, que proclamou o seu direito à autodeterminação e a criação de uma união cooperativa. Os estados rebeldes derrotaram a Grã-Bretanha na Guerra Revolucionária Americana, a primeira guerra colonial bem sucedida da Idade Contemporânea. A Convenção de Filadélfia aprovou a atual Constituição dos Estados Unidos em 17 de setembro de 1787; sua ratificação no ano seguinte tornou os estados parte de uma única república com um forte governo central. A Carta dos Direitos, composta por dez emendas constitucionais que garantem vários direitos civis e liberdades fundamentais, foi ratificada em 1791. Guiados pela doutrina do destino manifesto, os Estados Unidos embarcaram em uma vigorosa expansão territorial pela América do Norte durante o século XIX que resultou no deslocamento de tribos indígenas, aquisição de territórios e na anexação de novos Estados. Os conflitos entre o sul agrário e o norte industrializado do país sobre os direitos dos estados e a expansão da instituição da escravatura provocaram a Guerra de Secessão, que decorreu entre 1861 e 1865. A vitória do Norte impediu a separação do país e levou ao fim da escravatura nos Estados Unidos. No final do século XIX, sua economia tornou-se a maior do mundo e o país expandiu-se para o Pacífico. A Guerra Hispano-Americana e a Primeira Guerra Mundial confirmaram o estatuto do país como uma potência militar. A nação emergiu da Segunda Guerra Mundial como o primeiro país com armas nucleares e como membro permanente do Conselho de Segurança das Nações Unidas. O fim da Guerra Fria e a dissolução da União Soviética deixaram-no como a única superpotência restante. Os Estados Unidos são um país desenvolvido e formam a maior economia nacional do mundo, com um produto interno bruto que em 2012 foi de 15,6 trilhões * de dólares, equivalente a 19% do PIB mundial por paridade do poder de compra de 2011. Sua renda per capita era a sexta maior do mundo em 2010, no entanto o país é o mais desigual dos membros da Organização para a Cooperação e Desenvolvimento Econômico , conforme calculado pelo Banco Mundial. Sua economia é alimentada pela abundância de recursos naturais, por uma infraestrutura bem desenvolvida e pela alta produtividade e, apesar de ser considerado uma economia pós-industrial, o país continua a ser um dos maiores fabricantes do mundo. Os Estados Unidos respondem por 39% dos gastos militares do planeta e são um forte líder econômico, político e cultural.

Tuscaloosa Museum of Art

Tuscaloosa

The Tuscaloosa Museum of Art, previously the Westervelt-Warner Museum of American Art, was an art museum in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The museum permanently closed in 2018. It was founded by Tuscaloosa businessman Jack Warner.The Westervelt-Warner Museum of American Art was the result of 40 years of collecting American art by Jack Warner, CEO of Gulf States Paper, later the Westervelt Company. He founded the museum in 2003 after exhibiting portions of the collection in the headquarters building of the Westervelt Company.The Westervelt-Warner collection contains more than 500 works from 1775 onwards. Artists represented include John Singer Sargent and Childe Hassam as well as several artists of importance to American Art, including Albert Bierstadt, Rembrandt Peale, Edward Hicks, Thomas Moran, Edward Hopper, Robert Henri, Edward Potthast, and Charles Bird King. Other artists' works include James McNeill Whistler, Andrew Wyeth, Mary Cassatt, and James Peale.In 2011, the Westervelt-Warner Museum became the Tuscaloosa Museum of Art.

Museu de Arte Honolulu

Honolulu

Museu fundado em 1922 e oficialmente inaugurado em 1927, na cidade de Honolulu, capital e maior cidade do Havaí. É o maior museu de arte do estado, e possui uma das maiores coleções de arte asiática e da região do Pacífico nos Estados Unidos. Sua coleção já ultrapassa a quantidade de 50 mil obras de arte. A fundadora do museu é Anna Rice Cooke .

New Orleans Museum of Art

Nova Orleães

The New Orleans Museum of Art is the oldest fine arts museum in the city of New Orleans. It is situated within City Park, a short distance from the intersection of Carrollton Avenue and Esplanade Avenue, and near the terminus of the "Canal Street - City Park" streetcar line. It was established in 1911 as the Delgado Museum of Art.

Butler Institute of American Art

Youngstown (Ohio)

The Butler Institute of American Art, located on Wick Avenue in Youngstown, Ohio, United States, was the first museum dedicated exclusively to American art. Established by local industrialist and philanthropist Joseph G. Butler, Jr., the museum has been operating pro bono since 1919. Dedicated in 1919, the original structure is a McKim, Mead and White architectural masterpiece listed on the National Register of Historic Places .Among the most celebrated works in the Butler's permanent collection is Winslow Homer's Snap the Whip, a famed tribute to the era of the one-room schoolhouse. Winslow; however, painted two versions of Snap the Whip, with the other version residing in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The two paintings differ, with the Butler's version of Snap the Whip having mountains in the background, while the Metropolitan's does not. In 2007, the museum acquired the Norman Rockwell painting Lincoln the Railsplitter for $1.6 million. The previous owner of the 84.5 by 44.5 inch painting was businessman and former presidential candidate Ross Perot. Other aspects of the nation's past are captured in a unique collection of paintings featuring southwestern Native Americans, which were once part of Joseph Butler's personal collection. Additional highlights include an iconic depiction of George Washington's wedding, William Gropper's celebrated Youngstown Strike, an interpretation of the area's violent 1937 Little Steel Strike, and Albert Bierstadt's The Oregon Trail, 1869. Meanwhile, the gallery of modern art features a striking, life-sized painting by Alfred Leslie titled, Americans: Youngstown, Ohio, which depicts personalities connected with the Butler as they appeared in the 1970s. The museum also holds a significant collection of works by the Abstract Expressionist painter Robert Motherwell. In recent years, the Butler has expanded significantly. A 19,000-square-foot south wing, the Beecher Center, was constructed in conjunction with Youngstown State University in 2000 with a focus of uniting technology and art. Two years later, the 3,400-square-foot Andrews Pavilion, featuring a sculpture atrium, gift shop, and café, was added to the rear of the facility. In 2006, the Butler purchased the neighboring First Christian Church facility and converted it into an education and performing arts center. In October 2007, the museum had its first auction in fifteen years. Pieces of art were donated from around the country and up to 125 art enthusiasts and museum supporters gathered to view and buy the pieces of art. All of the money raised from the auction went to the hiring of scholars to produce an updated catalog of all the pieces of art in the museum and its cost of publication.

Arkell Museum

Canajoharie, New York

The Arkell Museum is a museum in Canajoharie, New York that has an extensive collection of American paintings, primarily from 1860–1940, as well as historical exhibits about the history of the Mohawk River Valley and of the Beech-Nut babyfood company. The Canajoharie Library was founded in 1924, and a gallery was added in 1927. The museum was originally built to house copies of European masterpieces and original 19th-century American paintings collected by Bartlett Arkell, then the town's leading industrialist. Susan Finch has written of the museum, "The institution has evolved into more than just an art gallery with a library attached, but an art gallery with a small town attached. The roster of American painters exhibited here is astounding and completely out of scale with what you would expect from a Thruway exit between Albany and Utica."Arkell acquired and donated some of the finest American paintings he came across. He incorporated several elements from different art museums that he visited in Europe and the United States into this museum. These were the European paintings Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Prince George Gallery at the Walker Art Museum in Liverpool, England and the gallery that housed The Night Watch at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Many of the paintings on display reflect Arkell's personal taste. Growing up in Canajoharie, landscapes of rural New York State and the Mohawk River are what Arkell found intriguing as well as familiar as they can be seen hanging on the museum walls The permanent collection includes twenty-one paintings by Winslow Homer, works by all members of The Eight, and paintings by leading American Impressionists such as Childe Hassam. George Inness and Ralph Blakelock are also well represented by several works in this impressive collection. American paintings from the 20th century include realist and regionalist works by Paul Sample, Ogden Pleissner and Thomas Hart Benton. This decorative arts collection derived from Arkell's desire to acquire objects of good taste such as furniture, sculpture, glass and pottery to place in the museum and library.

Dixon Gallery and Gardens

Memphis

The Dixon Gallery and Gardens is an art museum within 17 acres of gardens, established in 1976, and located at 4339 Park Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, United States. The museum focuses on French and American impressionism and features works by Monet, Degas, and Renoir, Pierre Bonnard, Mary Cassatt, Marc Chagall, Honoré Daumier, Henri Fantin-Latour, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Berthe Morisot, Edvard Munch, Auguste Rodin, and Alfred Sisley, as well as an extensive collection of works by French Impressionist artist Jean-Louis Forain. The museum also houses the Stout Collection of 18th-century German porcelain. With nearly 600 pieces of tableware and figures, it is one of the finest such collections in the United States. The Dixon also features a comprehensive schedule of original and traveling exhibitions of fine art and horticulture. The museum sits within four principal outdoor sculpture gardens with Greco-Roman sculpture. Its site was acquired by the Dixons in 1939, and landscaped in the English Garden style with open vistas adjacent to smaller, intimate formal spaces. The major areas within the gardens are the Cutting Garden, Formal Garden, South Lawn, and Woodland Gardens.

Grand Rapids Art Museum

Grand Rapids

The Grand Rapids Art Museum is an art museum located in Grand Rapids, Michigan with collections ranging from Renaissance to Modern Art and special collections on 19th and 20th-century European and American art. Its holdings include notable modern art works such as Richard Diebenkorn’s 1963 Ingleside. The museum has in its collection 5,000 works of art, including over 3,500 prints, drawings and photographs.

Joslyn Art Museum

Omaha (Nebraska)

The Joslyn Art Museum is the principal fine arts museum in the state of Nebraska, United States of America. Located in Omaha, it was opened in 1931 at the initiative of Sarah H. Joslyn in memory of her husband, businessman George A. Joslyn. It is the only museum in the state with a comprehensive permanent collection, and although it includes works from Paolo Veronese, El Greco, Titian, among others, its greatest strengths are the outstanding art collections of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries of American and European artists such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir and William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

Museu Nacional das Mulheres nas Artes

Washington, D.C.

O Museu Nacional das Mulheres nas Artes é uma instituição cultural localizada em Washington, D.C., nos Estados Unidos, fundada em 18 de fevereiro de 1987 por Wallace e Wilhelmina Holladay. Referido como "o maior e único museu do mundo dedicado a celebrar realizações femininas nas artes", abriga cerca de 4.500 peças entre pinturas, esculturas e trabalhos audivisuais. Entre as coleções de destaque encontram-se obras de artistas como Mary Cassatt, Frida Kahlo, Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun e Camille Claudel. Sua construção, em estilo de arquitetura neoclássica, está classificada no Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos.