Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea

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Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea July 31, 2021 - February 13, 2022 Ideas about the American West, both in the popular imagination and in commonly accepted historical narratives, are often based on a past that never was, and fail to take into account important events that actually occurred. At once, “The West” can conjure images of rugged colonial settlers, gun-toting-cowboys, or vacant expanses of natural…