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
to Titian, in his portraiture he was more conservative, and followed Titian’s models
Porter was the first known professional Black artist to specialize in still lifes, and his paintings were admired by the likes of writer Mark Twain and painter Frederic Edwin Church.
drawing from casts of ancient Greek and Roman sculptures and rising to painting live models
The US government once employed artists to draw pictures of designs from historical objects. The idea is reimagined by artists today.
Following European models of encyclopedic design books, objects were intended to
August 2025 In 2025–2026 the project will adapt to new scholarly publication models
fig1]. [3] These drawings, sometimes with small variations, must have served as models
make each soldier individualized, Saint-Gaudens created forty heads using 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.
The American artist, skilled at both painting and publicity, created a sensation similar to the social media–famous exhibitions of today.
Meanwhile, business models for artists had changed. “A major shift was occurring
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was the first to permanently record an image using light in 1837. His daguerreotype changed the way we consume images. Many innovations like stereographic photographs and tintypes would follow but it was George Eastman’s invention of the Kodak film camera in 1888 that made cameras widely available.
artists like Rembrandt van Rijn and Vincent van Gogh frequently used themselves as models
