Exhibit:

Death and Rebirth in the American Spirit

 This gallery presents a thought-provoking selection of portraits, images, and other visual works of art that represent the death and rebirth of human legacies, nature, literary movements, cultures, ways of life, and other significant, core characteristics that have defined American history and American literature. The United States, in its almost 250 years of independence, is often known as a place of freedom, and this freedom entails frequent change and new cycles of progress in every age. Simply put, this nation is a land of change and moving away from much of the old. Works displaying events at the time or looking back on the events that have forced the death of one component of the American way of life and the rebirth of it in a different form from the days of Columbus to the early 20th century shall be included here. These visual works of art will also be heavily tied to American writers who have seen and attempted to comprehend these transitions within the country's history through their literary works.