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Art for the Nation no. 65 (Spring 2022): 30-31, repro.

(brochure). 1991 Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of

With this terra-cotta statue, slightly under life-size, we encounter figures that demonstrate the beginnings of the Italian Renaissance admiration for the human body. Earlier statues in the collection, like the Pisan Annunciation pair, The Archangel Gabriel and The Virgin Annunciate, present the figure as a relatively simple and static form, with drapery arranged in graceful, decorative patterns that tell little about the body it covers.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.

In this series, chefs, farmers, historians, scholars, and other thinkers share their takes on food, consumption, cooking, and eating.
in publications such as the New York Times, the Atlantic, Smithsonian, and the Nation

The self-taught artist Horace Pippin turned to art after his right arm was disabled by a sniper’s bullet while serving in the African American regiment known as the “Harlem Hellfighters� during World War I. After the war, Pippin settled in his hometown of West Chester, Pennsylvania, and by the late 1930s his work had attracted the interest of such notables as the artist N.
River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 1977, no. 39, repro. 1991 Art for 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

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