Still Life with Sleeping Woman by Henri Matisse https://www.nga.gov/artworks/66424-still-life-sleeping-woman
Hirsch, Robert von Sotheby’s Mellon, Paul Exhibition History 1986 Gifts to the Nation
Hirsch, Robert von Sotheby’s Mellon, Paul Exhibition History 1986 Gifts to the Nation
Degas is famous for his depictions of ballerinas. This painting is one of his most perplexing examples.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.
Charles Sheeler was a master of both painting and photography, and his work in one medium influenced and shaped his work in the other.[1] In 1927, he was commissioned to photograph the Ford Motor Company’s new River Rouge Plant near Detroit. Then the world’s largest industrial complex, employing more than 75,000 workers, the plant produced Ford’s Model A, successor to the famed Model T.
[1] This overview is adapted from text previously published in Art for the Nation
It is impossible to guess what 16-year-old Ginevra de’ Benci was thinking as she sat for this portrait to commemorate her upcoming marriage. The young Florentine woman has a distant gaze.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.
Marsden Hartley was born on January 4, l877, in Lewiston, Maine, to English immigrant parents. In 1893 he moved with his family to Ohio, where he studied at the Cleveland School of Art.
Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation.
Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1973-1978, unnumbered checklist. 1986 Gifts to the Nation
(shown only in New York). 1991 Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th
In June 1867, at the urging of his father, Claude Monet went to Sainte- Adresse, a popular resort town on the Normandy coast, for an extended stay in the home of his aunt, Sophie Lecadre. His visit lasted until near winter and proved to be a period of intense activity.
Paris, 1959, no. 5, repro. 1991 Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969-1970, no. 10, repro. 1986 Gifts to the Nation
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