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.)
The exhibition of Home, Sweet Home in the spring of 1863 auspiciously marked Winslow Homer’s debut as a painter. The painting was enthusiastically admired.
„He at this moment wields a better pencil, models better, colors better, than many
A bureaucrat, as well as an artist, Andrea di Vanni was a prominent member of the Riformatori, a political faction that ruled the city of Siena from 1368 to 1385. The extent to which this painter was occupied with governmental affairs makes it somewhat remarkable that he was able to accept and fulfill major artistic commissions.
Pinacoteca Nazionale in Siena (inv. no. 114), are clearly dependent on artistic models
probably similar in character to the goat drawing. [16] Drawings likely served as models
The figures were done almost entirely without models, and the dry, blowing grass
ornamental decoration and in its stylistic features, both indebted to Trecento models
Perhaps as a consequence, he ventured into areas where he had few if any models.
Composer Daniel Bernard Roumain works with performance poet Lady Caress to respond to this iconic photograph with a combination of music and poetry. In the ebb and flow of his composition, DBR hopes to capture pain, legacy, enduring hope—and the rhythm of the subject’s life.
He used models.
architectural backdrops, and the strongly simplified drawing that still recalls models
excluded that the iconography of the Virgin with a rose was influenced by transalpine models
