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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.

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.

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

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