These 10 works by Black artists are on view in our galleries, so you can see them during your next visit.
Washington, DC, a salon where fellow artists like Alma Thomas came to paint live models
How our conservators have cared for the fragile wax sculpture, preserving it decades longer than anyone thought possible.
In art, it was used mostly for preliminary models.
make each soldier individualized, Saint-Gaudens created forty heads using live models
Meindert Hobbema studied under the noted landscape artist Jacob van Ruisdael, and quite a few of his compositions evolved from the work of his erstwhile master. Hobbema approached nature in a straightforward manner, depicting picturesque, rural scenery enlivened by the presence of peasants or hunters.
deceased masters of the British School: including a collection of drawings and models
Gerrit van Honthorst (1592–1656) has long been considered one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. After training in Utrecht, he traveled to Italy around 1615, where he embraced the radical stylistic and thematic ideas of Caravaggio.
These artists generally worked directly from posed models, as Caravaggio did, and
National Gallery of Art picture, the figure boldly faces the viewer as light firmly models
his paintings combine blossoms rendered from life and those derived from drawn models
Photographers of the 1970s revolutionized the medium through innovations of both style and subject.
She used models to reenact her imagined youth, blurring the lines between truth and
From the Native peoples lobbying to keep their homelands to immigrants facing challenges in their new home, works from our collection help us understand our nation’s beginnings.
(While many were still living, Saint-Gaudens did not use any of them as models.)
Gerrit Dou, considered the founder of the Dutch school of fijnschilderij , or fine painting, was born in Leiden on April 7, 1613, the son of Marytje Jansdr van Rosenburg and the glassmaker and engraver Douwe Jansz. According to Orlers, Dou received his first instruction, in the art of glass engraving, from his father.
confusion stemming in part from the fact that Dou and Rembrandt shared subjects and models
