1.   ...contemporary and modern American art.

2.   Considered the doyen of American art critics.

3.   American art -- paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints -- is the biggest category in the collection and probably one of the most affordable.

4.   American art, the best of it, anyway, seemed somehow self-generated.

5.   American Indian art!

6.   Although spawned in Paris, Synchromism is generally considered the first abstract style in American art.

7.   American arts funding seldom has involved the federal government.

8.   American art has got itself into a curious pickle at the end of the millennium.

9.   An active advocate of the American arts, she was instrumental in securing the private donations of some two dozen paintings still hanging in the White House.

10.   And from the beginning, as Robert Hughes has written, American art has oscillated between dependence and invention.