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During the 1830s, traveling with fur company representatives, cavalry officers, and later alone on multiple western journeys, George Catlin gathered drawings, sketches, and notes that would allow him to create an “Indian Gallery�—a collection of more than 500 paintings of American Indians. By the end of the decade, he would be widely recognized as the most celebrated painter of America’s native people.
Art, New York, 1965. 1972 The American West: Painters from Catlin to Russell, Los

Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1983, no. 47, repro. 1990 The Fauve Landscape, Los

Hip-hop artist Jasiri X looks at Kerry James Marshall’s woodcut almost like he’s looking into a mirror. It captures the experience of a Black man: resilient but restrained from being his authentic self. Jasiri responds to the work through two songs that reflect on his internal struggle.
His family moves to California, to Los Angeles, in 1963, when he’s eight years

Giotto ’s explorations and innovations in art during the early 14th century developed, a full century later, into the Italian Renaissance. Besides making panel paintings, he executed many fresco cycles—the most famous at the Arena Chapel, Padua—and he also worked as an architect and sculptor.
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los

The composition of this Virgin and Child is loosely based on the Hodegetria , one of the more powerful and enduring icon types of the Orthodox Christian church. The Virgin gestures toward the child to show him as the “way� ( hodos in Greek), the source of salvation.
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los

Rush Hour, New York is arguably the most important of Max Weber’s early modernist works that capture early 20th-century New York City’s ultramodern urban spirit. The painting achieves a remarkably vivid sense of the city’s frenetic pace through the artist’s adaptation of both the shallow, fragmented spaces of cubism and the rapid-fire, repeating forms of Italian futurism.
American Art, The Leicester Galleries, London, 1965, no. 91. 1970 The Cubist Epoch, Los

We don’t know who this family is, but the inscription on the lid of the box on the floor tells us the date: April 1, 1756.
and other documents; Duveen Brothers Records, Getty Research Institute Library, Los

Nicolas Lancret was one of Antoine Watteau’s most talented followers and helped to disseminate the taste for fête-galante subjects in the eighteenth century. On the far left musicians are hidden amidst the trees, while across the canvas from left to right, arranged on an exaggerated S curve, stylishly dressed spectators have assembled in intimate groups to watch a couple perform a pas de deux.
some of Kaiser Wilhelm II’s paintings (Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los

After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with Pieter Lastman (1583–1633), a famous history painter. Upon completion of his training Rembrandt returned to Leiden.
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los

A leader of the impressionist movement — a central exhibitor and organizing force for several of their exhibitions between 1876 and 1882 — Gustave Caillebotte was also an avid gardener. Like his close friend Claude Monet, with whom he shared gardening expertise and exchanged tips, he created lush, vibrantly colored landscapes and translated them into paint on canvas.
Scharffenberger family of California, who lived with this work in their home near Los