In the mid-1940s the president of Red Wing Pottery, Hubert Haddon Varney, asked Eva Zeisel if she could design a line that captured the eccentric spirit of Greenwich Village and appealed to young consumers who embraced a casual lifestyle after World War II.

In the mid-1940s the president of Red Wing Pottery, Hubert Haddon Varney, asked Eva Zeisel if she could design a line that captured the eccentric spirit of Greenwich Village and appealed to young consumers who embraced a casual lifestyle after World War II.

In the mid-1940s the president of Red Wing Pottery, Hubert Haddon Varney, asked Eva Zeisel if she could design a line that captured the eccentric spirit of Greenwich Village and appealed to young consumers who embraced a casual lifestyle after World War II.

Writer and artist Lee Ufan was born in Haman, Gyeongnam province in South Korea. Lee studied painting at the College of Fine Arts at Seoul National University for just two months and, in 1956, moved to Japan where he earned a degree in philosophy in 1961. While studying philosophy, Lee painted in a restrained, traditional Japanese style, eschewing the expressive abstraction of the Gutai movement.

Capturing the moment that the train begins its plummet, John McCrady's print of the Wreck of the Old 97 portends the catastrophic demise of a mail train near Danville, Virginia on September 27, 1903.

One of America's most famous painters of the American Scene, Grant Wood first won wide attention when American Gothic

Eugene Speicher first saw Vincent "Red" Moore, a farmer and tradesman, working in a blacksmith shop in southern New York State. For five years, Moore posed for Speicher in the autumn following the close of the farming and hunting seasons.