Philip Brookman is consulting curator in the department of photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.Â
including exhibitions on Eadweard Muybridge, Hank Willis Thomas, Taryn Simon, Sally Mann
Many artists have painted, photographed, and drawn nature’s magnificent sculptures.
Artists like Ansel Adams, Albert Bierstadt, Sally Mann, and Claude Monet are known
Assemblage in the Boxes of Joseph Cornell and the Contemporary Jewellery of Thomas Mann
Rockwell Kent, though best known as an artist and illustrator, pursued many careers throughout his long life, including architect, carpenter, explorer, writer, dairy farmer, and political activist. Born in Tarrytown, New York, Kent was interested in art from a young age.
Kent attended the Horace Mann School in New York City, where he excelled at mechanical
Discover works by Francisco Goya and learn about the artist
Mann. Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries.
Mann. Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries.
Discover works by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and learn about the artist
Mann. Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries.
© ringl + pit, courtesy Robert Mann Gallery, New York More About this Artwork
In a time when the nation was divided over the issue of slavery, artists helped to shape people’s understandings of the conflict that overtook the nation. Some artists depicted the political figures and events that drove and reflected the conflict. Other artists were on the battlefield itself, bringing the emotional toll of war home in immediate ways.
Gettysburg, July 5, 1863 Close Modal Battlefields, Cold Harbor (Battle) Sally Mann
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1980: 10, repro. 1981 Mann, Donna.
