Quiet Heroes & Heroines | National Gallery of Art https://www.nga.gov/educational-resources/heroes-heroines/quiet-heroes-heroines
learned about a real-life hero/heroine who brought about change in their community or nation
Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Nation
Calanque des Antibois by Henri Edmond Cross https://www.nga.gov/artworks/61248-calanque-des-antibois
Gifts to the Nation from Mr. and Mrs.
Index of American Design | National Gallery of Art https://www.nga.gov/artworks/index-american-design
The Index is made up of 18,257 watercolor works by some 1,000 artists. A Federal Art Project dating to the Great Depression, it sought to identify and preserve a national, ancestral aesthetic for the United States. The watercolors depict American folk and decorative arts objects from the colonial period through 1900.
Across the Nation We’re sending art across America.
Plum Brandy by Edouard Manet https://www.nga.gov/artworks/53034-plum-brandy
; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1983, no. 165. 1986 Gifts to the Nation
National and Modern | National Gallery of Art https://www.nga.gov/research/publications/american-paintings-1900-1945/national-and-modern
building of a new national collection through private means, a challenge to which the nation
American Paintings, 1900–1945: Into Bondage, 1936 | National Gallery of Art https://www.nga.gov/research/publications/american-paintings-1900-1945/american-paintings-1900-1945-bondage-1936
acknowledgment of African American contributions to the progress of both state and nation
La condition humaine by René Magritte https://www.nga.gov/artworks/70170-la-condition-humaine
Two of Magritte’s favored themes were the „window painting“ and the „painting within a painting.“ The Human Condition is one of Magritte’s earliest treatments of either subject, and in it he combines the two, making what may be his most subtle and profound statement of their shared meaning. The Human Condition displays an easel placed inside a room and in front of a window.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.
Place Vintimille by Edouard Vuillard https://www.nga.gov/artworks/106394-place-vintimille
On this decorative screen, Edouard Vuillard painted the Place Vintimille (now the Place Adolphe-Max), as seen from his fifth-floor apartment. Vuillard was an avid photographer, and he took snapshots from his window to use as reference for these panels.
Vuillard, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1938, no. 135. 2000 Art for the Nation
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Thomas Gainsborough https://www.nga.gov/artworks/100-georgiana-duchess-devonshire
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.
Dahlias, Garden at Petit Gennevilliers by Gustave Caillebotte https://www.nga.gov/artworks/110067-dahlias-garden-petit-gennevilliers
A leader of the impressionist movement — a central exhibitor and organizing force for several of their exhibitions between 1876 and 1882 — Gustave Caillebotte was also an avid gardener. Like his close friend Claude Monet, with whom he shared gardening expertise and exchanged tips, he created lush, vibrantly colored landscapes and translated them into paint on canvas.
their home near Los Angeles for fifty years before deciding to share it with the nation