The US government once employed artists to draw pictures of designs from historical objects. The idea is reimagined by artists today.
Index drawings were also exhibited widely across the nation, from community art centers
Explore our collection of nearly 160,000 works spanning the history of Western art.
Across the Nation We’re sending art across America.
Explore our collection of nearly 160,000 works spanning the history of Western art.
Across the Nation We’re sending art across America.
Explore our collection of nearly 160,000 works spanning the history of Western art.
Across the Nation We’re sending art across America.
Explore our collection of nearly 160,000 works spanning the history of Western art.
Across the Nation We’re sending art across America.
Explore our collection of nearly 160,000 works spanning the history of Western art.
Across the Nation We’re sending art across America.
Charles Sheeler was a master of both painting and photography, and his work in one medium influenced and shaped his work in the other.[1] In 1927, he was commissioned to photograph the Ford Motor Company’s new River Rouge Plant near Detroit. Then the world’s largest industrial complex, employing more than 75,000 workers, the plant produced Ford’s Model A, successor to the famed Model T.
[1] This overview is adapted from text previously published in Art for the Nation
It is impossible to guess what 16-year-old Ginevra de’ Benci was thinking as she sat for this portrait to commemorate her upcoming marriage. The young Florentine woman has a distant gaze.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.
(shown only in New York). 1991 Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th
by Monet, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1975, no. 9, repro. 1986 Gifts to the Nation
