Discover works by Thomas Gainsborough and learn about the artist
1783 · oil on canvas · Accession ID 1937.1.93 Artwork Thomas Gainsborough, A Rocky
eight hundred thousand square miles of land from the Mississippi River west to the Rocky
Far behind him, a grassy hill leads up to steep, rocky outcroppings, with those to
shimmering, aquamarine-blue body of water to our left and towns peppered along taller mountains
In about 1600, Hendrick Goltzius, who was famous across Europe for his extraordinary abilities as a draftsman and printmaker, turned his talents to painting. In 1616 he painted this magnificent image of Adam and Eve reclining in the Garden of Eden like mythological lovers.
Eve, the scene opens up onto a landscape with a grassy expanse leading back to rocky
Information on this painting can be found in the Gallery publication American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century , pages 81-87, which is available as a free PDF https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/american-paintings-18th-century.pdf
The distant landscape has sage-green hills, dark green trees, and rocky mountains
There are white buildings with brown roofs in the distance in front of rocky, powder-blue
The US national park system exists in part because of artists.
Their works celebrate the expansive forests, rugged mountains, and great lakes and
by a stone-gray structure with a squared opening and, to the left, with a brown, rocky
Its Christian subject matter, simplicity of organization, and lack of shock value separate The Sacrament of the Last Supper from most of Salvador Dal۪̉s other works. Dal۪̉s reputation from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s was founded on his surrealist manner and use of Freudian dream imagery.
periwinkle-blue water stretches from behind the table to a row of low, gossamer-white, rocky
