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Description: In this program, Andrew Graham-Dixon shows the role of 19th- and 20th-century artists in helping America to establish its own culture. He goes to Manhattan to examine the grimy world of John Sloan and George Bellows, to Massachusetts for a fresh take on Norman Rockwell, and to Chicago for a look at the work of Louis Sullivan. Graham-Dixon explains how the Great Depression affected Edward Hopper and Arshile Gorky and inspired America’s first internationally acclaimed art movement—Abstract Expressionism. He visits Jackson Pollock’s Long Island studio before flying across America to take in Mark Rothko’s incredible chapel in Houston, Texas. A BBC Production. Part of the series Art of America. (50 minutes) A BBC Production.