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Estados Unidos

Os Estados Unidos da América , ou simplesmente Estados Unidos , são uma república constitucional federal composta por 50 estados e um distrito federal. A maior parte do país situa-se na região central da América do Norte, formada por 48 estados e Washington, D.C., o distrito federal da capital. Banhado pelos oceanos Pacífico e Atlântico, faz fronteira com o Canadá ao norte e com o México ao sul. O estado do Alasca está no noroeste do continente, fazendo fronteira com o Canadá no leste e com a Rússia a oeste, através do estreito de Bering. O estado do Havaí é um arquipélago no Pacífico Central. O país também possui vários outros territórios no Caribe e no Oceano Pacífico. Com 9,37 milhões de km² de área e uma população de mais de 300 milhões de habitantes, o país é o quarto maior em área total, o quinto maior em área contígua e o terceiro em população. Os Estados Unidos são uma das nações mais multiculturais e etnicamente diversas do mundo, produto da forte imigração vinda de muitos países. Sua geografia e sistemas climáticos também são extremamente diversificados, com desertos, planícies, florestas e montanhas que abrigam uma grande variedade de espécies. Os paleoindígenas, que migraram da Ásia há quinze mil anos, habitam o que é hoje o território dos Estados Unidos até os dias atuais. Esta população nativa foi muito reduzida após o contato com os europeus devido a doenças e guerras. Os Estados Unidos foram fundados pelas treze colônias do Império Britânico localizadas ao longo da sua costa atlântica. Em 4 de julho de 1776, foi emitida a Declaração de Independência, que proclamou o seu direito à autodeterminação e a criação de uma união cooperativa. Os estados rebeldes derrotaram a Grã-Bretanha na Guerra Revolucionária Americana, a primeira guerra colonial bem sucedida da Idade Contemporânea. A Convenção de Filadélfia aprovou a atual Constituição dos Estados Unidos em 17 de setembro de 1787; sua ratificação no ano seguinte tornou os estados parte de uma única república com um forte governo central. A Carta dos Direitos, composta por dez emendas constitucionais que garantem vários direitos civis e liberdades fundamentais, foi ratificada em 1791. Guiados pela doutrina do destino manifesto, os Estados Unidos embarcaram em uma vigorosa expansão territorial pela América do Norte durante o século XIX que resultou no deslocamento de tribos indígenas, aquisição de territórios e na anexação de novos Estados. Os conflitos entre o sul agrário e o norte industrializado do país sobre os direitos dos estados e a expansão da instituição da escravatura provocaram a Guerra de Secessão, que decorreu entre 1861 e 1865. A vitória do Norte impediu a separação do país e levou ao fim da escravatura nos Estados Unidos. No final do século XIX, sua economia tornou-se a maior do mundo e o país expandiu-se para o Pacífico. A Guerra Hispano-Americana e a Primeira Guerra Mundial confirmaram o estatuto do país como uma potência militar. A nação emergiu da Segunda Guerra Mundial como o primeiro país com armas nucleares e como membro permanente do Conselho de Segurança das Nações Unidas. O fim da Guerra Fria e a dissolução da União Soviética deixaram-no como a única superpotência restante. Os Estados Unidos são um país desenvolvido e formam a maior economia nacional do mundo, com um produto interno bruto que em 2012 foi de 15,6 trilhões * de dólares, equivalente a 19% do PIB mundial por paridade do poder de compra de 2011. Sua renda per capita era a sexta maior do mundo em 2010, no entanto o país é o mais desigual dos membros da Organização para a Cooperação e Desenvolvimento Econômico , conforme calculado pelo Banco Mundial. Sua economia é alimentada pela abundância de recursos naturais, por uma infraestrutura bem desenvolvida e pela alta produtividade e, apesar de ser considerado uma economia pós-industrial, o país continua a ser um dos maiores fabricantes do mundo. Os Estados Unidos respondem por 39% dos gastos militares do planeta e são um forte líder econômico, político e cultural.

Terra Foundation for American Art

Chicago

The Terra Foundation for American Art is a privately operated nonprofit organization dedicated to the support of American art exhibitions, projects, academic research, and publications worldwide. Its goal is to promote a greater understanding and appreciation of the cultural and artistic heritage of the United States through the acquisition, study, and display of works of American art. The Foundation is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Newark Public Library

Newark (Nova Jérsia)

The Newark Public Library is a public library system in Newark, New Jersey. The library offers numerous programs and events to its diverse population. With eight different locations, the Newark Public Library serves as a Statewide Reference Center. The Newark Public Library is the public library system for the city of Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. Currently, the library boasts an enormous collection of both art and literature, art and history exhibits, a variety of programs for all ages, and much more.

Art Complex Museum

Duxbury, Massachusetts

The Art Complex Museum, located in the historic town of Duxbury, Massachusetts, 33 miles south of Boston, serves as a regional arts center and houses the impressive collection of the Carl A. Weyerhaeuser family. Situated on over 13 acres of woodland and open fields, the handicapped accessible museum opened in 1971. In addition to a gallery for rotating objects from the permanent collection, and exhibitions spaces that feature painting, sculpture, prints and craft objects created by contemporary artists, the museum houses the Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Reference Library of over 7,000 publications. Located on the grounds is a Japanese tea hut, part of the museum's Asian collection, which is used during tea ceremony presentations. The museum offers a year-round schedule of exhibitions, lectures, concerts, classes, education programs, demonstrations, and tea ceremonies fulfilling the founders' vision that their family's many interests be shared with the community as the Weyerhaeuser family envisioned.

Seattle Art Museum

Seattle

O Seattle Art Museum é um museu de arte em Seattle, Washington, Estados Unidos.

Blanton Museum of Art

Austin

The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin is one of the largest university art museums in the U.S. with 189,340 square feet devoted to temporary exhibitions, permanent collection galleries, storage, administrative offices, classrooms, a print study room, an auditorium, shop, and cafe. The Blanton's permanent collection consists of almost 18,000 works, with significant holdings of modern and contemporary art, Latin American art, Old Master paintings, and prints and drawings from Europe, the United States, and Latin America.

C. M. Russell Museum Complex

Great Falls (Montana)

C. M. Russell Museum Complex is an art museum located in the city of Great Falls, Montana, in the United States. The museum's primary function is to display the artwork of Great Falls "cowboy artist" Charles Marion Russell, for whom the museum is named. The museum also displays illustrated letters by Russell, work materials used by him, and other items which help visitors understand the life and working habits of Russell. In addition, the museum displays original 19th, 20th, and 21st century art depicting the American Old West and the flora, fauna, and landscapes of the American West. In 2009, the Wall Street Journal called the institution "one of America's premier Western art museums." Located on the museum property is Russell's log cabin studio, as well as his two-story wood frame home. The house and log cabin studio were designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. In 1976, the listing boundaries were amended to account for moving the house.Beginning in 1969, the museum co-hosted the C. M. Russell Auction of Original Western Art—an auction of 19th, 20th, and 21st century art of the American West whose proceeds benefit the museum. The auction has received media attention in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In 2010, the two co-hosts parted ways, and the C. M. Russell Museum inaugurated a new auction, "The Russell."

Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens

Jacksonville

The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens is a museum located in Jacksonville, Florida. It was founded in 1961 after the death of Ninah Cummer, who bequeathed her gardens and personal art collection to the new museum. The Cummer Museum has since expanded to include the property owned by Ninah's brother-in-law, but it still includes her original garden designs and a portion of her home with its historic furnishing. The museum and gardens attract 130,000 visitors annually. The permanent collection of the museum currently includes over 5,000 works of art dating from 2100 BCE to the twenty-first century. The museum's collection is especially strong in European and American paintings and also includes substantial holdings of Meissen porcelain. The museum also has an award-winning education center, Art Connections, which possesses a number of interactive educational installations and serves underprivileged and special education students with its programs. There are three flower gardens on the museum grounds, the oldest dating back to 1903. These gardens have preserved their original layout for over a century and were designed by landscape designers such as the Olmsted Brothers, Thomas Meehan & Sons, and Ellen Biddle Shipman. The Cummer Gardens are on the National Register of Historic Places.

Frye Art Museum

Seattle

The Frye Art Museum is an art museum located in the First Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, USA. The museum emphasizes painting and sculpture from the nineteenth century to the present. Its holdings originate in the private collection of Charles and Emma Frye. Charles, owner of a local meatpacking plant, set aside money in his will for a museum to house the Fryes' collection of 232 paintings. The Frye Art Museum opened to the public in 1952 as Seattle's first free art museum. The museum building was originally designed by Paul Thiry, although it has since been considerably altered.Charles Frye's will required that the majority of the Fryes' own collection continue always to be on view in rooms of a certain size; stipulations were also made about lighting conditions and specifically concrete floors . He also required that admission always be free. These conditions were enough to keep the Seattle Art Museum from being interested in his collection.The Fryes' collection consisted entirely of representational works, with a tendency toward "the dark, the dramatic, and the psychological" rather than "the genteel". The museum's permanent collection reflects Charles Frye's relatively conservative artistic tastes, and the museum continued to be dedicated exclusively to representational art, both in its acquisitions and its exhibits. This conservatism reflected the artistic and social values of its first director, Walser Greathouse and of his even more conservative widow and successor Ida Kay Greathouse, who ran the museum until 1993.However, exhibitions under new, professional management in recent years have been far more venturesome, eliciting comparisons to Seattle's Henry Art Gallery. Exhibitions in recent years have included "Subspontaneous: Francesca Lohmann and Rob Rhee," featuring sculptures involving natural forces and ecological growth, "Agnieszka Polska: Love Bite," and "Unsettling Femininity: Selections from the Frye Art Museum Collection." The museum often redeploys its permanent collection, experimenting with exhibiting it in different arrangements. In 2018, the museum had 109,249 total attendees and a membership base of 2,383.In 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the museum temporarily closed for in-person visits and now offers online art viewing and educational opportunities through the Frye From Home program. On August 28, 2020, the museum announced its expectation to reopen for in-person visits in October 2020.

James A. Michener Art Museum

Doylestown (Pensilvânia)

The Michener Art Museum is a private, non-profit museum in Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, founded in 1988 and named for the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer James A. Michener, a Doylestown resident. It is situated within the old stone walls of a historic 19th-century prison and houses a collection of Bucks County visual arts, along with holdings of 19th- and 20th-century American art. It is noted for its Pennsylvania Impressionism collection, an art colony centered in nearby New Hope during the early 20th century, as well as its changing exhibitions, ranging from international touring shows to regionally focused exhibitions.