Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Nation

building of a new national collection through private means, a challenge to which the nation

acknowledgment of African American contributions to the progress of both state and nation

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

Heade offered viewers an intimate glimpse into the exotic recesses of nature’s secret garden. Lichen covers dead branches;
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.

Cézanne’s paintings after about 1895 are more somber, more mysterious than those of earlier years. His colors deepen, and his brushwork assumes greater expression.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.

In 1909, Hamilton Easter Field, a Brooklyn painter and critic, asked Picasso to create a group of eleven paintings as a decoration for his library. Picasso accepted but, although he worked on the commission intermittently over the next several years, he never completed all eleven of the panels.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.

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

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.

watercolors, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1986. 1991 Art for the 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