Still Life with Flowers in an Alabaster Vase and Fruit by Anne Vallayer-Coster https://www.nga.gov/artworks/227490-still-life-flowers-alabaster-vase-and-fruit
Art for the Nation no. 68 (Spring 2024): 19, repro. 18.
Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Nation
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.
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The Spirit of War by Jasper Francis Cropsey https://www.nga.gov/artworks/56598-spirit-war
In The Spirit of War , a rugged mountain landscape provides the backdrop for a medieval wartime scene, all bathed in an eerie, fiery light: knights on horseback ride into battle, a distant settlement burns, and a mother and child cower on the ground.
) and the subsequent debate over whether the western territories would join the nation
The Equatorial Jungle by Henri Rousseau https://www.nga.gov/artworks/46688-equatorial-jungle
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.
Hanging the Laundry out to Dry by Berthe Morisot https://www.nga.gov/artworks/66426-hanging-laundry-out-dry
Heritage, Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, 1950, no. 18, repro. 1986 Gifts to the Nation
The Lavie Children by Johann Zoffany https://www.nga.gov/artworks/61398-lavie-children
Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1963, no. 236, repro., pl. 231. 1986 Gifts to the Nation
Two Women by Fernand Léger https://www.nga.gov/artworks/72169-two-women
Fernand Léger originated a distinct cubist style in the twentieth century. In the early 1920s he both embraced and influenced the aesthetic of Purism as espoused by his friends Le Corbusier and Amedée Ozenfant.
Exhibition History 1991 Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary
Little Dancer Aged Fourteen by Edgar Degas https://www.nga.gov/artworks/110292-little-dancer-aged-fourteen
At the sixth impressionist exhibition in the spring of 1881, Edgar Degas presented the only sculpture that he would ever exhibit in public. The Little Dancer Aged Fourteen , the title given by the artist, has become one of the most beloved works of art, well known through the many bronze casts produced from this unique original statuette, following the artist’s death.
Sculpture by Degas, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1956. 1991 Art for the Nation
Roses by Vincent van Gogh https://www.nga.gov/artworks/72328-roses
Roses was painted shortly before Van Gogh’s release from the asylum at Saint–Rémy. He felt he was coming to terms with his illness—and himself.
Washington, D.C., 1980, no. 77, color repro., as Still Life, Roses. 1991 Art for the Nation
Nude on a Blue Cushion by Amedeo Modigliani https://www.nga.gov/artworks/46521-nude-blue-cushion
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.