Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Nation

National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 11, repro. 1986 Gifts to the Nation

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.

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 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

America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.

Sculpture by Degas, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1956. 1991 Art for the Nation

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

Heritage, Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, 1950, no. 18, repro. 1986 Gifts to the Nation

America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.

Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1963, no. 236, repro., pl. 231. 1986 Gifts to the Nation