Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Nation

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.

From the Native peoples lobbying to keep their homelands to immigrants facing challenges in their new home, works from our collection help us understand our nation’s beginnings.
The Wanderer docked at Jekyll Island, Georgia, in 1858, 50 years after 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

Mellon not only donated his European and American masterpieces to the nation but

Most notably, Alison Luchs, "The Degas Waxes, c. 1878–c. 1911," in Art for the Nation

Like Jacques Onésime de Bergeret, Lalive de Jully (1725-79) was an influential collector, amateur, and painter in the Parisian art world of the 1750s and 1760s. One of Jean-Baptiste Greuze’s first patrons, Lalive is depicted seated on a chair he had commissioned as part of a suite of furniture à la grecque.
1944: 78, repro. no. 79 "Kress Makes Important Donation of French Painting to the Nation

In the tradition of his Flemish predecessors, Memling’s painting contains a wealth of religious meaning; it is filled with symbols which explain the importance of Christ’s mission on earth.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.

Right and Left refers to the shooting of two birds, one just after the other, with a double barreled shotgun. Winslow Homer may have seen hunters perform this feat at sea near his studio overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in Prouts Neck, Maine.
Art for the Nation no. 64 (Fall 2021): 2-3, repro.

Manet came from a well–to–do family, and this painting provides a glimpse of the sophisticated Parisian world he loved. He was uncomfortable in the countryside, preferring instead the finery of the city.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.

We don’t know who this family is, but the inscription on the lid of the box on the floor tells us the date: April 1, 1756.
"Kress Makes Important Donation of French Painting to the Nation."