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
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
Trees, grass, and shrubbery, simplified almost to abstraction, set off the fragile, wasp–waisted figure of MarÃa 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.
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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Miami, 1993-1994, no. 22, repro. 2000 The Revolutionary War: Founding the New Nation
Art for the Nation no. 65 (Spring 2022): 30-31, repro.
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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.
