Edwin Landseer was only 18 when he painted this powerful work showing a rescue in the Great Saint Bernard Pass in the Alps. Two dogs have found an unconscious man partially buried by snow.
Mann, Caleb Scholefield. The Works of Sir E. Landseer. 4 vols.
Mann. Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries.
Mann. Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries.
Peer into the American past with a collection of Great Depression–era watercolors.
and pen and ink on paper, Index of American Design, 1943.8.17982 Harry Mann
this work, including information about its restoration, see Jan Kelch et al., Der Mann
In 1990 the National Gallery launched an initiative to acquire the finest examples of the art of photography and to mount photography exhibitions of the highest quality, accompanied by scholarly publications and programs.
James Casebere, Chuck Close, Paul Graham, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Vera Lutter, Sally Mann
Trees, grass, and shrubbery, simplified almost to abstraction, set off the fragile, wasp–waisted figure of María Ana de Pontejos y Sandoval, the Marquesa de Pontejos. Splendidly attired, she typifies those ladies of the Spanish aristocracy who affected the „shepherdess“ style of Marie Antoinette, so popular in pre–revolutionary France.
Mann. Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries.
In this tempestuous scene, El Greco depicted an angry Christ driving the moneychangers from the Temple. An uncommon theme, it became increasingly popular in the latter half of the sixteenth century, promoted by the Council of Trent as a symbol of the Catholic church’s attempt to purify itself after the Protestant Reformation.
Mann. Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries.
Composer/producer Emily Wells sees us as the buffalo: frozen before downfall, but still alive—which is why she includes so much breath in her song. Wells, whose work deals with the climate crisis, looks to David Wojnarowicz’s AIDS activism for lessons.
Stieglitz, André Kertész, Irving Penn, Robert Frank, Allen Ginsberg, and Sally Mann
In an improvised musical conversation, jazz bassist Christian McBride introduces himself to David. Connecting over McBride’s walking bass line, they meet David’s friends, splash by the fire hydrant, play stickball. Through David, McBride recalls his own childlike innocence.
Stieglitz, André Kertész, Irving Penn, Robert Frank, Allen Ginsberg, and Sally Mann
