Vija Celmins creates photorealistic drawings and paintings of the natural world. Her detailed, meditative images of subjects such as ocean waves or stars in the sky are often rendered in gray, black, and white.
1988.74.16 Artwork Vija Celmins, Doris Simmelink, Gemini G.E.L., Concentric Bearings, B,
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c. 1545, cast non-sterling silver, Gift of Lisa and Leonard Baskin, 1992.55.10.b
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Decorat [reverse], c. 1474/1478, tempera on panel, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1967.6.1.b
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House, c. 1800, pen and black ink with watercolor on laid paper, Gift of William B.
pencil on two sheets of wove paper, Gift of Bob Stana and Tom Judy, 2022.173.13.a-b
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and in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.103.1.b
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Fuller, 1950.11.1.b Madonna and Child, with the Blessing Christ [middle panel]
Pynacker, Wooded Landscape with Travelers, late 1640s, oil on canvas, Gift of Ruth B.
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MacCrone Fund, 1992.39.1.b Castel Sant‘ Angelo [reverse] Castel Sant‘ Angelo [reverse
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Rozeal, SONG OF SOLOMON 5:16 – BE BEEWORLD: BE B BOY B GIRL (after “Emperor Xuanzong
