Welcome! Visiting the National Gallery of Art for the first time? Only have an hour to spend? That’s enough time to connect with intimate portraits, discover „action painting,“ and meet a 14-foot-tall rooster.
Northwest Quadrant Coosje van Bruggen, Claes Oldenburg, Typewriter Eraser, Scale X, model
Poised tiptoe on a globe, this chubby cherub seems to pirouette, inviting interest from all angles. His complex movement in space is remarkable for a date so early in the Renaissance.
This cupid is indeed a rarity—a model in unfired clay.
”his flowing beard, long nose, and deep-set, slightly sad eyes—are those of a model
Rodin; on proper right side of neck, in the back, incised by hand in model prior
Hybrid Work Model: Depending on your project placement, you’ll have an opportunity
Ethel Philip, Whistler’s sister-in-law and a favorite subject of the artist, whose likeness appears in drawings, etchings, lithographs, and at least five full-size oil paintings, stands against an empty, shallow background with her back to the viewer. She wears a grey silk gown topped with a bolero jacket of transparent silk gauze or fine net—a design inspired by traditional costumes from Spain’s Andalusian region.
portrait of a person, but of a dress," transforming Ethel Philip into a fashion model
Asian Americans are often left out of view of US history. But their lives—and their art—are an essential part of the nation’s story.
the artist showed his audiences the manipulation behind the images and offered a model
Hybrid Work Model: Depending on your project placement, you’ll have an opportunity
Bellows executed Nude with Hexagonal Quilt at his studio in Woodstock, New York, in July 1924 at the age of forty-one. He had been an avid practitioner of life drawing since his early student days at the New York School of Art under the tutelage ofÂ
The meditative attitude and pose of the model in Nude with Hexagonal Quilt recall
This rocker seems to be a particularly elaborate model and was, perhaps, imported
