Dad’s Coming! by Winslow Homer https://www.nga.gov/artworks/79891-dads-coming
watercolors, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1986. 1991 Art for 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
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
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
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Working diligently to find his artistic voice in the first decade of his career, Cézanne often prevailed upon friends and relatives to act as models in his studio on the family estate in Aix-en-Provence. The poet and art historian Antony Valabrègue, who grew up with Cézanne in Aix, sat for the young artist several times in the 1860s.
Español de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, 1984, no. 3, repro. 1986 Gifts to the Nation
Juliana Willoughby stands quietly but alertly, engaging the viewer with her direct, slightly questioning gaze. The blended harmonies of the pinks, whites, and creams of her skin tones, her dress, and her shining wisps of fine hair evoke not just Juliana, but the essence of all little girls of this age.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.
Less a movement than a set of crucially new ideas about the nature of artistic practice, minimalism has profoundly influenced the most important art of the last four decades. Donald Judd was minimalism’s philosopher, defining its principles through his work and writing, while disparaging the term.
Gallery of Art Bulletin no. 37 (Fall 2007): 14-15, repro. 2015 "Art for the Nation
Through his surrealist woodcut, Cortor considers the relationship between humans and animals and tells the stories of Black bodies.
abattoir, as we labor in the dirty, bloody work of actual butchery and making the nation
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