The United States is frequently described as a “nation of immigrants.� Immigrants have played a pivotal role in the country’s history and understanding of itself.
Today, more than 40 million immigrants live in the United States.
A close friend of Whistler, George Washington Vanderbilt II commissioned this full-length portrait in 1897 to hang in Biltmore House, his enormous château on 125,000 acres of wilderness near Asheville, North Carolina. The artist quickly responded, „I could not ask for a more sympathetic subject than yourself and therefore am greatly pleased at the prospect of painting your portrait!“
of railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, passed away in 1885, leaving him six million
A magnified look at the details in the imagined portrait of the legendary French emperor.
Five months of battle killed Approximately 1 million French and Russian soldiers
How the Diné artist’s serene paintings „tell the story of knowing land over time.“
Bitai or "the winged rock" in Navajo, formed after a volcanic eruption around 30 million
Go on a MONUMENTAL drawing adventure inspired by the Running Fence artists, the first in our series hosted by Wendy MacNaughton.
The project cost more than $2 million dollars at the time.
Born in Luxembourg, Steichen emigrated as a small child to the United States with his parents, eventually settling in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At 15 he began a four-year apprenticeship at a lithography firm there and became interested in painting while studying at the newly established Milwaukee Art Students’ League.
around the world, the show went on to travel the globe and was seen by over nine million
municipal department of bridges and completed in 1909 at a cost of about $20.8 million
The Last of the Buffalo is Albert Bierstadt’s final, great, western painting. Measuring six by ten feet, it mirrors in size his first massive oil, Lake Lucerne (1858), also in the National Gallery of Art collection.
The animals had been reduced in population to only about 1,000 from 30 million at
The library’s image collections contain more than 14 million images for examination
Explore our collection of nearly 160,000 works spanning the history of Western art.
Douglas 1936 This painting refers to the Atlantic slave trade, during which 10–12 million
