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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

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

Hillary Rodham Clinton accepts the gift of the completed garden on behalf of the nation

Trees, grass, and shrubbery, simplified almost to abstraction, set off the fragile, wasp–waisted figure of María Ana de Pontejos y Sandoval, the Marquesa de Pontejos. Splendidly attired, she typifies those ladies of the Spanish aristocracy who affected the „shepherdess“ style of Marie Antoinette, so popular in pre–revolutionary France.
"The Mellon Gift to the Nation." Art News 35 (9 January 1937): 13.

Niagara , located on the homeland of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), is among the greatest natural wonders of North America. Beginning in the late 17th century, the site became a popular but challenging subject for European artists.
he knew that Americans at this time viewed this place as the symbol of the new nation

Wright’s artistic interests varied widely, ranging from portraiture and scientific topics in his early „candlelight“ period to popular subjects, romantic history, literature, and landscapes in later years. This painting dates from the end of Wright’s career.
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969-1970, no. 15, repro. 1986 Gifts to the Nation

Between 1877 and 1878, Gustave Caillebotte made a series of paintings focusing on swimmers, fishermen, rowers, and canoers at his family estate in Yerres. In Skiffs , which was exhibited at the fourth impressionist exhibition in 1879 under the name Pésissoires sur L’Yerres (Flat-Bottom Canoes on the Yerres) , he adopted the short, broken brushstrokes of Monet and the bold palette of Renoir, but achieved a much different effect:
of Art, Washington; The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1986 Gifts to the Nation

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

See the portraits of antislavery activists, including Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth.
He published a new edition of his memoir and traveled the nation speaking to crowds

Alexander Calder’s monumental mobile moves solely on the air currents in the East Building’s Central Court. The sculptor originally intended the work to have a motor, but the use of advanced, lightweight materials made this unnecessary.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.