The Niagara Cascades by Kay WalkingStick https://www.nga.gov/artworks/231344-niagara-cascades
Cascades 2024 Kay WalkingStick Associated Names Kay WalkingStick Artist, Cherokee Nation
Cascades 2024 Kay WalkingStick Associated Names Kay WalkingStick Artist, Cherokee Nation
Art for the Nation no. 65 (Spring 2022): 16-17, repro.
Artwork history & notes Artwork History Exhibition History 1991 Art for the Nation
Aaron Douglas painted The Judgment Day in 1939, more than a decade after creating the book illustration on which the painting is based. In 1927 Douglas had provided eight strikingly original illustrations for a collection of poems titled God’s Trombones:
"Art for the Nation: The Story of the Patrons‘ Permanent Fund."
Artists are often particularly keen observers and precise recorders of the physical conditions of the natural world.
The new nation experienced a shift from a farming economy to an industrial one, major
Vlaminck is often portrayed as the most unruly painter of the fauve school, an impression that reflects both on his personality (as it is revealed in his biography and writings) and his work. A self-taught artist, Vlaminck insisted that painting should be the unmediated expression of an artist’s temperament, „emotive, tender, ferocious, as natural as life itself.“ [1] Indeed, having been an anarchist sympathizer during the prewar period, he would later link the strident colorism and bold brushwork of his work to social and political dissent, a connection that was actually made by several art critics.
Weiss, published in the National Gallery of Art exhibition catalogue, Art for the Nation
Associated Names Mellon, Paul Exhibition History 1991 Art for the Nation: Gifts
Associated Names Mellon, Paul Exhibition History 1991 Art for the Nation: Gifts
Associated Names Mellon, Paul Exhibition History 1991 Art for the Nation: Gifts
Art for the Nation no. 68 (Spring 2024): 16, repro.