Artists are keen observers of the natural world. The landscapes they create capture the progression of seasons, the changing climate, and conservation concerns.Â
1932-1933 Rockwell Kent, Citadel, 1932-1933, oil on canvas mounted on plywood, Gift
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Artwork John Frederick Kensett, Beach at Beverly, c. 1869/1872, oil on canvas, Gift
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transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Gift
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by Mark Peterson), 2021, charcoal, conté crayon, and graphite on mounted paper, Gift
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Pipe Sunday #2 (recto), 1997, color lithograph on folded Rives BFK buff paper, Gift
Born in 1856 in Florence to expatriate American parents, John Singer Sargent received his first formal art instruction at Rome in 1868, and then sporadically attended the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence between 1870 and 1873. In 1874 he was accepted at the Paris atelier of the portraitist Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran , and attended drawing classes at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
Danaïdes", 1922-1925, charcoal and graphite on laid paper, Corcoran Collection (Gift
The Harlem, or New Negro, Renaissance was a period of artistic and cultural rebirth among African Americans between 1918 and the mid-1930s. Many Black artists experienced a freedom of artistic expression for the first time. They asserted pride in Black life and identity, called out inequality and discrimination, and responded to a rapidly changing modern world.
Bondage, 1936, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase and partial gift
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with His Wife, Pleasance, and possibly His Sister, Frances, 1769, oil on canvas, Gift
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Artwork Thomas Downing, Untitled, 1972, acrylic on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Gift
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Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne II, Jules-David Cromot, Baron du Bourg, c. 1757, marble, Gift
