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Nighthawks, 1942 Edward Hopper The Art Institute of Chicago<\/p><\/div>\n

Reported by Deborah Vankin\/LA Times:<\/p>\n

Among the denim-clad glamour girls and blockbuster movie stars staring down from the billboards of the Sunset Strip, images of great American artworks will be displayed this summer in what organizers are calling \u201cthe largest outdoor art show ever conceived.\u201d<\/p>\n

Five museums \u2014 the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York \u2014 have come together with the Outdoor Advertising Assn. of America to execute Art Everywhere<\/a>, a sweeping, interactive art campaign.<\/p>\n

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American Gothic, 1930 Grant Wood The Art Institute of Chicago<\/p><\/div>\n

Along with billboards in Hollywood, the images will be displayed in Times Square and bus stops, subway platforms and signs around the country.<\/p>\n

The public is invited to vote on its favorite American artworks from a master list of 100 that the museums have curated from their combined collections, the frenetic color-drippings of Jackson Pollock and the fluid curves of Georgia O\u2019Keeffe\u2019s oil blossoms among them. The 50 most popular images will then be featured throughout August on about 50,000 billboards and signs in select U.S. cities.<\/p>\n

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Classic Landscape, 1931 Charles Sheeler National Gallery of Art<\/p><\/div>\n

The campaign, which follows a similar program in England last year, may be a publicity play for the museums, but it\u2019s also an effort to raise awareness of art nationwide.<\/p>\n

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Untitled, 2008 Cindy Sherman Whitney Museum of American Art<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cImages out of sight may be out of mind,\u201d LACMA Director Michael Govan said. \u201cArt Everywhere puts marvelously diverse American ideas and stories told through images in the open air with public involvement \u2014 reminding us of the many more great images that are accessible in our museums.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Water Fan, 1898\/99 Winslow Homer The Art Institute of Chicago<\/p><\/div>\n

Voters will be asked to consider not just paintings but photographs, multimedia works, drawings on paper and decorative objects from the 18th century to 2008. Grant Wood\u2019s now-iconic \u201cAmerican Gothic,\u201d of a rigid-looking farmer clutching a pitchfork beside his daughter, was nominated by the Art Institute of Chicago. LACMA\u2019s black and white John Baldessari photograph from the mid-\u201960s, \u201cWrong,\u201d is also in the mix.<\/p>\n

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Giant Magnolias on a Blue Velvet Cloth, c. 1890 Martin Johnson Heade National Gallery of Art<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cIn a way, it\u2019s a mini history of American art \u2014 and an opportunity for people to identify which works resonate for them personally,\u201d said Dallas Museum of Art Director Maxwell L. Anderson. \u201cI hope families and individuals will have a fresh look at our collective cultural heritage and see the potential in their lives of visiting museums and appreciating great works of art.\u201d<\/p>\n

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White Center, 1957 Mark Rothko Los Angeles County Museum of Art<\/p><\/div>\n

Voting will take place at ArtEverywhereUS.org<\/a>, where the final list of artworks will be announced June 20. Among the artists whose works are on the ballot: Edward Hopper, Mark Rothko, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, Ed Ruscha, Catherine Opie, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman and Frank Lloyd Wright.<\/p>\n

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PH-143, (1955-No.2), 1955 Clyfford Still Los Angeles County Museum of Art<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThe beauty of this project,\u201d Govan said, \u201cis that we can share these masterpieces of American art with people all around L.A. and the rest of the country \u2014 no admission necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n

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