Allegory of Africa by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi https://www.nga.gov/artworks/72866-allegory-africa
Exhibition History 1991 Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary
Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Nation
Holy-Water Stoup by Giovanni Antonio Fornari https://www.nga.gov/artworks/159881-holy-water-stoup
Airborne angels, billowing clouds, and golden rays against a sky fashioned from rare lapis lazuli surround a receptacle for holy water with exuberantly leaping edges. The Roman master goldsmith who created this stoup inscribed his maker’s mark on the central silver relief of Saint John the Baptist preaching in a landscape.
National Gallery of Art Bulletin 48 (Spring 2013): 26-27, repro. 2015 "Art for the Nation
The Annunciation by Caterina Angela Pierozzi https://www.nga.gov/artworks/226409-annunciation
Active in Florence in the late 17th century, Caterina Angela Pierozzi (active c. 1670–1690) worked for the Medici Grand Duchess of Tuscany Vittoria della Rovere, who was well-known for her patronage of women artists.
Art for the Nation no. 67 (Fall 2023): 21, repro.
Vertical Constellation with Bomb by Alexander Calder https://www.nga.gov/artworks/92729-vertical-constellation-bomb
Alexander Calder’s interest in astronomy and the cosmos led him to create a series of delicate works he called Constellations. This is the most complex one.
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1998, no. 177, color repro. 2000 Art for the Nation
My Family by George Bellows https://www.nga.gov/artworks/61353-my-family
During the summer of 1916 George Bellows and his family vacationed in Camden, Maine, and Bellows began to experiment with plein air portraiture in which he attempted to integrate the human figure with the outdoors. He produced two nearly identical versions of a monumental portrait of his wife and two daughters that summer:
Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia, 1984, fig. 15. 1986 Gifts to the Nation
Reclining Female Nude by Elizabeth Catlett https://www.nga.gov/artworks/195245-reclining-female-nude
Art for the Nation no. 65 (Spring 2022): 7, Fig. 6.
Niagara, Frederic Edwin Church | National Gallery of Art https://www.nga.gov/node/856156
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
Our History | National Gallery of Art https://www.nga.gov/about-us/our-history
museum on behalf of his father to President Roosevelt, who accepted the gift for the nation
Major Giving | National Gallery of Art https://www.nga.gov/support/major-giving
other Benefactors to contribute their collections and private resources to the nation
Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet https://www.nga.gov/artworks/61379-woman-parasol-madame-monet-and-her-son
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.