Thorton Dial made energetic, colorful sculptures and relief paintings using found and commercial materials, both natural and industrial. Dial was born in 1928 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama.
enamel, and spray paint on canvas mounted on wood, Patrons‘ Permanent Fund and Gift
Washington, DC, has always been home to vibrant communities of artists. Photographers like Mathew B. Brady and Addison Scurlock documented political leaders and local life. The Corcoran School of the Arts and Design and Howard University cultivated generations of artists, including members of the abstract Washington Color School.
Thomas, Tiptoe Through the Tulips, 1969, acrylic on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Gift
Early American art includes works made by settlers in what we now know as the United States. Before the American Revolution, artists documented life in the colonies of New Spain and New England. And in the early decades of the United States, many artists represented the new nation through portraits of its early leaders.
Advanced Artwork Search Gilbert Stuart, George Washington, c. 1821, oil on wood, Gift
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by Wolfgang Volz, topographic map, fabric sample and masking tape on wove paper, Gift
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, white opaque watercolor, and cut-and-pasted biblical scripture paper on card, Gift
The American painters known as abstract expressionists developed a new kind of painting during the 1940s and ’50s. Their works were characterized by abstract imagery and subject matter that was full of allusions. They created dramatic, often monumental compositions with sweeping brushwork and fields of color.Â
1959 Matsumi Kanemitsu, Border Shift, 1959, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Gift
Barbed Wire Series I and II, 2018, offset lithograph on two sheets of wove paper, Gift
and Two Gentlemen Lawyers, black chalk heightened with white on tan laid paper, Gift
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Le Buddha, published 1938, lithograph on wove Arches paper, Woodner Collection, Gift
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. 31 recto], c. 1512/1515, pen and brown ink on laid paper, Woodner Collection, Gift
