51.   In spite of the international acclaim and the world-traveler status, Robert Rauschenberg remains the quintessentially American artist.

52.   It also intends to produce prints by both established and emerging American artists.

53.   It is also a gesture that American artists appreciate.

54.   It is hard to think of an American visual artist with this reach.

55.   It will be the first display of American artists at the Russian museum.

56.   Its hull sports a lavish graphic of a mermaid painted by the American pop artist, Roy Lichtenstein.

57.   Its mission is to insure that American artists are well represented at the Tate Gallery in London.

58.   Jasper Johns once said that no American artist has invented more than Rauschenberg.

59.   John Marin was perhaps the most admired American artist in the United States at midcentury.

60.   Like Goya, these contemporary American artists painted what they actually experienced as witnesses of war.