We don’t include a person’s credit rating in their eulogy, and we don’t remember civilizations by their GDP numbers. In the current economic climate, our definitions of national wealth are very much in question. In Bruce Linn’s large mural-like history painting, Building America, and in his series of paintings that often include images of ships loaded, like arks, with landmark architecture and iconic works of art, escaping a land of garbage dumps and dumpsters, Linn reflects on history and culture in ways that are, both, ambitious and satiric.

Building America is composed of nine six-foot-by-six-foot canvases and spans fifty-four feet. It took Linn over four and a half years to create.

Click here for an overview of BUILDING AMERICA, a fifty-four-foot painting of the history of the United States and Bruce Linn's most ambitious work, or click on the thumbnails, below, to see any of the nine six-foot canvases.

	Panel 1	Panel 2	Panel 3	Panel 4	Panel 5	Panel 6	Panel 7	Panel 8	Panel 9