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
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
The Palmer River flows from Massachusetts into Rhode Island. Bannister ’s depiction reflects his admiration for French landscape artists, but it is also a study of weather.
Art for the Nation no. 64 (Fall 2021): 16-17, repro.
Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge, 9 1991 Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the
Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Names Allan Stone Gallery Abrams, Robert Exhibition History 1991 Art for the 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
