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By SHEILA WICKOUSKI FOR THE FREE LANCE–STAR The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s exhibit “Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture” focuses on a six-week visit in Humboldt’s life that would later impact on American cultural development in the visual arts, sciences, literature, politics and exploration. After five years of exploration over thousands of miles of land, rivers and mountains in South America, Mexico and Cuba to document the connections of all things in nature, Humboldt wanted to make one more stop before he sailed home to Europe. Humboldt was fervent to see the democratic style of government flourish and to meet the man he most admired: the primary author of the United States’ Declaration of Independence—President Thomas Jefferson. Having recently acquired the Louisiana Territory, Jefferson was also interested in meeting Humboldt to learn of his discoveries about the world’s ecosystems.

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