The museum had a hodge-podge of a collection. It was not a solid collection of art or artwork. It was really more of a repository of artwork to me. It was actually confused between depicting history using art and / or art using history. This resulted in several disjointed exhibitions: from portraits of famous Americans from presidents to sports heroes to modern day “pop” icons; a landscape artist, Asher Durand (similar to JMW Turner but the Yankee version); an eclectic mix of Modern Art and WPA (Work Progress Administration) artists who were paid for their art. [The WPA projects represented a sequence of programs and promises initiated between 1933 and 1938 with the goal of giving reform to the people and economy of the US during the Great Depression], and the weirdest thing of them all, a collection of World War I Posters selling mostly bonds to finance World War I. It just didn’t have a theme. It was a huge building with so many rooms that they had to fill it with many exhibits of various types. Sadly, it looked to me like a flea market. You can see for yourself by going to their website at http://americanart.si.edu/collections/exhibitions.cfml
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