Spanish Dance by Edgar Degas https://www.nga.gov/artworks/110305-spanish-dance
Sculpture by Degas, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1956. 1991 Art for the Nation
Sculpture by Degas, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1956. 1991 Art for the Nation
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 125, repro 1986 Gifts to the Nation
War art often memorializes battles and turning points. It also commemorates military leaders, from classical era generals like Zenobia, to medieval heroes like Joan of Arc, to Colonel Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment in the American Civil War. Today, war artists document the human cost of conflict, with photography serving as a powerful tool.
And in the early decades of the United States, many artists represented the new nation
, 1904-1912, Museu Picasso, Barcelona, 1997, no. 8, repro. 1998 Gifts to the Nation
In 1883 Monet moved his household, his two sons along with Alice Hoschedé and her children, to the rural community of Giverny, where he leased a house that he was able to purchase seven years later. In early 1893, he acquired a swampy area across the railroad tracks abutting his property and petitioned the village council for permission to divert a small stream into it.
Gallery of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1999, no cat. 2000 Art for the Nation
In her tribute to the late George Morrison, Ojibwe artist Andrea Carlson asks, how can Indigenous artists be called back to the land?
artists—including Jeffery Gibson (Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians/Cherokee Nation
In the art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Virtues were often personified by human figures carrying identifying attributes. Charity typically holds one or more children.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.
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
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.
(A chief of the Iowa nation, powerful hunter, one who sought support for his tribe