René de Gas [recto] by Edgar Degas https://www.nga.gov/artworks/93008-rene-de-gas-recto
Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1999-2000. 2000 Art for the Nation
Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1999-2000. 2000 Art for the Nation
Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington
, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 90, repro 1986 Gifts to the Nation
Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 104. 1991 Art for the Nation
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.
Vincent van Gogh painted 36 self-portraits. This was one of his last.
Amsterdam, 1990, no. 99, repro., as Self-Portrait with Palette. 1998 Gifts to the Nation
Black White and Blue was painted at a critical juncture in Georgia O’Keeffe’s life. In 1929 she began to spend several months of each year in New Mexico, away from both New York and her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, the photographer and promoter of American modernist painting and photography.
Greenough, published in the National Gallery of Art exhibition catalogue, 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
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