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As the U.S. celebrates its 250th<\/sup> anniversary this week, New York Art Tours is taking a trip to the Met Museum<\/a>\u2019s outstanding American art collection to check out some classics and lesser-known highlights.\u00a0 One of the first pieces that visitors to the second-floor encounter is this large, recently acquired painting from 1915 by Polish-born New Yorker Theresa Bernstein.\u00a0 Titled \u2018Music Lovers,\u2019 Bernstein pictures visitors to the Met Opera, then located near 39th<\/sup> Street, lining up to purchase tickets. \u00a0Ranging from the Italian man in his characteristic craftsman\u2019s hat at the ticket window to a well-to-do couple in top hat and fascinator, the assorted audience members (including Bernstein\u2019s mom in the white collar) come from different backgrounds but gather in their shared appreciation for music. (On view in gallery 772 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art).<\/p>\n

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Theresa Bernstein, Music Lovers, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 inches, 1915.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the U.S. celebrates its 250th anniversary this week, New York Art Tours is taking a trip to the Met Museum\u2019s outstanding American art collection to check out some classics and lesser-known highlights.\u00a0 One of the first pieces that visitors to the second-floor encounter is this large, recently acquired painting from 1915 by Polish-born New … <\/p>\n

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