The resulting display was historic: it marked the first time that Native American artists represented the United States at the prestigious art exhibition, a distinction that has repeated only this month, with the Chocktow Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson's takeover of the US pavilion at the 60th edition of the Biennale.
It would include neither Whistlers, nor Homers, nor Sargents-conspicuously setting aside the era's assumed 'great artists' to shine an international spotlight on lesser-known Indigenous names.
That claim was repeated as recently as last year: The New York Times to an article that had erased this history, apparently relying on information provided by the commissioners of the 2024 US pavilion.
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