When The White Girl debuted in London in 1862, it puzzled viewers. At the time, portraits of this scale usually featured well-known people.
Art for the Nation no. 65 (Spring 2022): 26-27, repro. 2023 Murphy, Paul Thomas
„Pictures lost to the Nation.“
Van Gogh found inspiration for this portrait in the bold complementary colors and contrasting patterns of the Japanese woodblock prints he collected. He fantasized about Japan as a utopia of bright light and color different from the dark, crowded western capitals he lived in.
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Crawford Notch, a deep valley in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, gained notoriety in 1826 when nine lives were lost in a catastrophic avalanche nearby. Cole’s painting depicts the site of an earlier landslide whose destruction prompted the victims—Mr.
Philadelphia; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2002, no. 5, repro. 2018 Nature’s Nation
This group portrait represents George Washington’s military, political, and family life. The president, in a Revolutionary War uniform, rests his hand on a plan for Washington, DC, the site for the new US capital.
household depended on the labor of enslaved people, as did the economy of the young nation
The people and animals in this colorful procession are on their way to see the infant Jesus and honor his birth. The procession winds around a hill, under an ancient arch, and to the manger.
„Pictures lost to the Nation.“
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The basic fascination with capturing and studying images of ourselves and of others—for what they say about us, as individuals and as a people—is what makes portraiture so compelling.
between a British loyalist and a member of the Mohawk tribe, part of the Iroquois nation
After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with Pieter Lastman (1583–1633), a famous history painter. Upon completion of his training Rembrandt returned to Leiden.
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This painting is an outstanding example of the abstract elegance characteristic of Rogier’s late portraits. Although the identity of the sitter is unknown, her air of self–conscious dignity suggests that she is a member of the nobility.
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