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
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.
Hirsch, Robert von Sotheby’s Mellon, Paul Exhibition History 1986 Gifts to the Nation
Degas is famous for his depictions of ballerinas. This painting is one of his most perplexing examples.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.
