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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

Physical perfection becomes an expression of sanctity in this statuette. Duquesnoy, a Fleming working in Rome, created monumental sculpture that earned him esteem rivaling that of his great Italian contemporaries Bernini and Algardi.
London, 2013: 48, no. 13, 49 repro. 2015 "Art for the Nation: The Story of the

This graceful jar is simple in design, beautiful in execution, and prominently signed Dave by its creator. Such a bold claim to authorship might not seem unusual to us today.
Art for the Nation no. 67 (Fall 2023): 33, repro. 2025 Van Horn, Jennifer, and

Newsweek (12 June 1989): 63, repro. 2015 "Art for the Nation: The Story of the

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

A painting may provide a “window� into a different world. Here, the painting is itself a window, and it reveals a world dizzy with color and movement.
1917, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1993, no. 19, repro. 1998 Gifts to the Nation

Verrocchio, a favorite artist of the Medici, may have created this lively and commanding portrait on the occasion of a joust that took place in 1475 in Florence for Giuliano de‘ Medici’s coming of age. The bust was originally painted and possibly adorned with a metal helmet and other decoration, projecting an exuberance especially evident in the winged face modeled on Giuliano’s fanciful armor.
Pantheon 7 (January- June 1931): 16, repro. 1937 "Mellon Offers Nation $19,000,000

Edwin Landseer was only 18 when he painted this powerful work showing a rescue in the Great Saint Bernard Pass in the Alps. Two dogs have found an unconscious man partially buried by snow.
2007: 132-133, 333 nn. 34-36. 2025 " American and British Paintings for the Nation