Picturing America - Art of the Month

Picturing America, the exciting initiative from the National Endowment for the Humanities, bring masterpieces of American art into classrooms and libraries nationwide.  Through this innovative program, students and citizens will gain a deeper appreciation of our country's history and character through the study and understanding of its art.

Great art speaks powerfully, inspires fresh thinking, and connects us to our past.  The Dolton Public Library District is pleased to have taken part in Picturing America 2009-2010!  We hope you have enjoyed our year-long exploration of our nation's art.

Please enjoy this final Art of the Month, and visit our Picturing America displays in the josway Auditorium and in the display case opposite the circulation desk, on display through July, 2010.

• For more infomation, please visit the Official Picturing America Website.
• Click here to view the full Picturing America Gallery
• Download a copy of the "Picturing America Image Catalog" 

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Art of the Month - June 2010

Allies Day (May 1971)

Childe Hassam (1859-1935)

One month after the United States officially entered the First World War, the city of New York festooned Fifth Avenue with flags.  As a welcoming gesture to the British and French war commissioners, the Stars and Stripes hung alongside the Union Jack and the French tricolor to create a patriotic pattern of red, white and blue.  Childe Hassam, and American of British descent who had studied and worked in Paris, took personal pride in the new military alliance.

Allies Day is not Hassam's only flag painting, but it quickly became -- and has remained -- his most patriotic and famous painting.

Click on the following link for more information about Childe Hassam.