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.
Jr., published in the National Gallery of Art exhibition catalogue, Art for the Nation
museum on behalf of his father to President Roosevelt, who accepted the gift for the nation
The artist’s wife Camille stands on a hill with their son Jean behind her. Monet worked quickly to record this moment.
Gifts to the Nation: Selected Acquisitions from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs.
This painting evokes the art of the past only to break boldly with its conventions. The boy is posed like an aristocrat in a 16th-century Italian portrait.
Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, no.24, repro. 1991 Art for the Nation
Valentin de Boulogne was born near Boulogne (from whence he takes his last name) in Picardy. He came from a family of artists, but little else is known of his early life and training.
Conisbee, published in the National Gallery of Art exhibition catalogue, Art for the Nation
With great bravura, this fashionably clad member of the Haarlem civic guard stands with one arm akimbo, staring out at the viewer. His proud bearing, accented by the panache of his shimmering pink satin costume and plumed hat, attests to the great sense of confidence felt by the Dutch at the height of their „golden age.“ Andries Stilte, whose family coat of arms decorates the upper corner of this painting, is presented as a standard bearer, or ensign, of the Kloveniers, one of Haarlem’s militia companies.
Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.
The new nation experienced a shift from a farming economy to an industrial one, major
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1989, no. 207, color repro. 1991 Art for the Nation
Art for the Nation no. 66 (Fall 2022): 46-47, repro.
