Domenichino was trained at the art academy run by the Carracci family in Bologna during the last decades of the sixteenth century. In 1602 he joined his master Annibale Carracci in Rome and assisted him with the fresco decorations of the galleria in the Palazzo Farnese.
Conisbee, published in the National Gallery of Art exhibition catalogue, Art for the Nation
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.
Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1999-2000. 2000 Art for the Nation
Art for the Nation no. 63 (Spring/Summer 2021): 28, repro.
Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Sara Capen of the Niagara Falls [National] Heritage Area and associate curator of American and British paintings Sarah Cash explore the hidden stories of freedom-seekers behind Church’s painting of a North American landmark.
he knew that Americans at this time viewed this place as the symbol of the new nation
John Haberle, with his contemporaries William Harnett and John Peto, was one of the most important trompe l’oeil still-life painters in late nineteenth-century America. Of them, Haberle was specially noted for his style (the microscopic painting of detail) and for his favorite subject (money).
Jr., published in the National Gallery of Art exhibition catalogue, Art for the Nation
In the spring of 1826, Thomas Cole met Robert Gilmor Jr., a highly knowledgeable and sophisticated Baltimore collector, who soon commissioned a view of Catskill Mountain House, a popular hotel overlooking the Hudson River Valley. After a summer spent sketching and painting in the area and corresponding with his patron concerning the selection of a new subject, Cole completed Sunrise in the Catskills in early December and had it delivered to Baltimore on Christmas Day.
Francisco; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1976, no. 33. 1991 Art for the Nation
Baby at Play is the final work in a series of intimate portraits of family and friends created by Eakins between 1870 and 1876. The painting depicts the artist’s two–and–a–half–year–old niece, Ella Crowell.
National Portrait Gallery, London, 1993-1994, no. 14, repro. 1998 Gifts to the Nation
Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge, 9 1991 Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the
