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While his figure paintings are better known, Renoir’s landscapes resonate with a vigor and freshness of vision central to the development of impressionism, most apparent here in his transcription of the effects of sunlight. Midday sun suffuses the panorama, its intensity heightening the artist’s palette and suppressing incidental detail to clarify the crowded scene.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.

In European art, images of children blowing soap bubbles often suggest how frivolous and short our time on earth is. Life, like fragile bubbles, is fleeting.
News 37 (11 March 1939): 10, repro. 1942 „Collectors Continue Enriching the Nation

Auguste Rodin was born in 1840, the second child and only son of Jean-Baptiste Rodin and Marie Cheffer, first-generation Parisians of modest means. Nothing in his family background or situation suggested that he might become an artist.
school with the mission to educate the designers and the artisans of the French nation

Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the National Gallery

Carpaccio reimagined the Madonna and Child theme when he made this painting. Instead of wearing a traditional blue cloak, the Virgin Mary, or Madonna, is clothed in fashionable Venetian dress.
Art for the Nation no. 66 (Fall 2022): 48, repro.

Cole’s renowned four-part series traces the journey of an archetypal hero along the „River of Life.“ Confidently assuming control of his destiny and oblivious to the dangers that await him, the voyager boldly strives to reach an aerial castle, emblematic of the daydreams of „Youth“ and its aspirations for glory and fame. As the traveler approaches his goal, the ever-more-turbulent stream deviates from its course and relentlessly carries him toward the next picture in the series, where nature’s fury, evil demons, and self-doubt will threaten his very existence.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.

George Bellows’s paintings devoted to boxing were among the most popular pictures he produced during his lifetime and remain so today. Executed in August and September 1907, Club Night is the first of three similar boxing subjects that Bellows painted early in his career, from 1907 to 1909.
Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 1996, no. 1, repro. 1998 Gifts to the Nation

Irene di Spilimbergo was about 20 years old when this painting was begun. Along with a pendant portrait of her older sister, Emilia, the two paintings were probably initially commissioned in anticipation of the prospective marriages of the two sitters.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.

Works of art are subject to continual change and movement. This chalice, made of materials from around the world, has been altered several times during the 2,000 years of its history.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.

Gold and silver threads add life to this tapestry, often described as the finest surviving from the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Everything indicates that this was an important commission:
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.