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
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.
In December 1872, Sisley traveled to Port-Marly, a village in the western suburbs of Paris. There he produced four paintings showing the flooding of the Seine River.
, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 73, repro 1986 Gifts to the Nation
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1987-1988, no. 27A, repro. 1991 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
the Bahamas will introduce students to the climate and geography of this island nation
