Saida by Kees van Dongen https://www.nga.gov/artworks/106381-saida
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1983, no. 44, repro. 1998 Gifts to the Nation
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1983, no. 44, repro. 1998 Gifts to the Nation
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
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
Art for the Nation no. 65 (Spring 2022): 7, Fig. 6.
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
Mellon à la nation américaine." Revue de l’Art 376 (April 1937): 84.
Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge, 9 1991 Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the