Join award-winning poet MarÃa Fernanda for an in-gallery poetry writing workshop inspired by the exhibition Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985.
at the Brooklyn Museum’s American Art Galleries for the exhibition Soul of a Nation
Paul Sérusier was born in Paris, and signed on as a student at the Académie Julian—the largest private art academy in Paris—in 1884. In the summer and autumn of 1888 he traveled in Britanny, where he visited for several weeks the village of Pont-Aven.
Conisbee, published in the National Gallery of Art exhibition catalogue, Art for the Nation
At the beginning of the twentieth century, as he turned from a career as a painter and a graphic and tapestry designer to concentrate on sculpture, Aristide Maillol was shaping what would become the leitmotif of his career. The subject that inspired him was the female nude, carefully observed but transmuted by underlying geometric forms into a kind of architecture, evoking the timeless rather than the individual.
Luchs, published in the National Gallery of Art exhibition catalogue, Art for the Nation
The National Gallery Sculpture Garden is given to the nation by The Morris and Gwendolyn
Art for the Nation no. 64 (Fall 2021): 3, repro.
Mourning Becomes America: Mourning Art in the New Nation. Exh. cat.
the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999. 2000 Art for the Nation
Art; The Denver Art Museum, 1983-1984, unnumbered, fig. 5.21. 1991 Art for the Nation
Chicago, 1956 – 1957, no. 8 (as Playing Card: Valet), repro. 2000 Art for the Nation
Born in 1844 to a working-class family in Laval, France, Henri Rousseau worked briefly for a lawyer and served a stint in the military before taking a position at a French customs post in 1868; the nickname “ Le Douanier “ (the customs inspector) remained with him even after his retirement in 1893.
Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, Portugal, 1994, no. 42, repro. 1998 Gifts to the Nation
