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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participated in government employment programs in every state and county in the nation
This painting and the Enthroned Madonna and Child are the oldest paintings on the National Gallery of Art’s walls.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.
A ragtag group of people gathers around an elderly man holding a violin. He pauses, as if interrupted mid performance, and gazes directly at us.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.
In this photograph, journalist and musician Celeste Headlee hears Lenox Avenue, a suite her grandfather William Grant Still named after Harlem’s main street. This portrait captures the pride of Black Americans achieving success during the Harlem Renaissance despite systemic injustice.Â
Headlee is also a classically trained soprano who has performed around the 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.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.
The man’s surroundings are blurred, but his illuminated face is finely detailed. The sad eyes fix on us intently.
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99, echoed by Alison Luchs, „The Degas Waxes, c. 1878–c. 1911,“ in Art for the Nation
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the National Gallery
Girl with the Red Hat is one of Johannes Vermeer’s smallest works, and it is painted on panel rather than on his customary canvas. The girl has turned in her chair and interacts with the viewer through her direct gaze.
America’s National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation.
