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Celebrating American Art at Princeton

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Teach with Collections: Late Formative or Early Classic Maya, Shell depicting a marine deity

Teach with Collections: Claude Monet, Monet's Water Lily Pond, Giverny, Haute-Normandie, France

Teach with Collections: Josef Albers, Folder 5, from Formulation: Articulation, Volume 1

Teach with Collections: Mitate: Arashi Rikan II as Hachiman Taro and Nakamura Utaemon III as Abe no Sadato

Teach with Collections: Ana Mendieta, Untitled (Glass on Body Imprints – Face)

Teach with Collections: Pende artist, Female mask (gambanda)

Teach with Collections: Diane Arbus, A Child Crying, N.J.

Teach with Collections: Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne, Plate from Mechanisme de la Physionomie Humaine

Teach with Collections: Thomas Rowlandson, Thirteen heads

Teach with Collections: Mummy portrait of a bearded young man

Teach with Collections: Winslow Homer, At the Window

Teach with Collections: Andrew Moore, Model T Headquarters, Highland Park