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‘An open letter to the nation’: National Gallery of Art reckons with America at 250

The Guardian

April 13, 2026

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Indiana's Liberty '76 print - a red 76 against a yellow star in a blue circle with smaller white stars, surrounded by a white ring with the text "they choose to be free we choose to be". Liberty is written in green letters below the circle and the ground is blue with thin red stripes

An exhibition of almost 100 artists, from Gordon Parks to Roy Lichtenstein, positions the US as ‘a living idea that’s shaped by many voices’

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Indiana's Liberty '76 print - a red 76 against a yellow star in a blue circle with smaller white stars, surrounded by a white ring with the text "they choose to be free we choose to be". Liberty is written in green letters below the circle and the ground is blue with thin red stripes

Liberty '76, 1974–75

Photo: Courtesy of Olney Gleason, New York; Artwork: © The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY