A Moment of Calm by Max Ernst https://www.nga.gov/artworks/61172-moment-calm
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.
Mellon à la nation américaine." Revue de l’Art 376 (April 1937): 84.
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
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
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
Homer developed a penchant for forceful realism early in his career. Following an apprenticeship in a Boston lithography shop, he supported himself as a freelance illustrator, creating a wide variety of popular images that subsequently were published as wood engravings in national periodicals like Harper’s Weekly .
The Nation 22 (20 April 1876): 268. "Fine Arts.
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
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