Picturing America for Public Libraries

We had an actor portraying Ernest Hemingway and we displayed Childe Hassam's Allies Day. We used the Walker Evans' and Joseph Stella's Brooklyn Bridge and William Van Allen's The Chrysler Building to commemorate September 11. To highlight our program on Boating Safety we used Mary Cassatt's Boating Party and Emmanuel Leutze's Crossing the Deleware. We also displayed Thomas Eakins' John Biglin in a Single Scull. During our Knitting Out Loud event we displayed the quilting posters. It wasn't quite knitting, but everyone enjoyed the similarities. During our Birds of Prey program for children we used the Audubon poster.

Submitted by Lisa Sprague