Information on this painting can be found in the Gallery publication American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I, pages 318-322, which is available as a free PDF at https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/american-paintings-19th-century-part-1.pdf
[6] Identified in Dramatic Choices: The Theater Collects (Exh. cat.
Alexander Calder is perhaps best known for his large, colorful sculpture, which incorporates elements of humor and chance into uniquely engineered structures. Calder was born outside of Philadelphia to a successful, artistic family.
whimsical and lyrical sense of design to media as diverse as metal jewelry and theater
Great art shifts your way of seeing the world. When her sister was dying, composer Kamala Sankaram was drawn to the intensity of Mark Rothko’s painting.
invited to create music for an adaptation of the Oresteia that the Shakespeare Theater
Catching the drama of news events with speed and accuracy, Everett Shinn began his career as an artist-reporter for a Philadelphia newspaper in the early 1890s. Born in Woodstown, New Jersey, Shinn became a successful illustrator and one of the new realist painters who, at the turn of the century, looked to the modern urban world for their subjects.
The theater world became one of his favorite subjects.
François Boucher was a member of an extraordinarily talented generation of artists born around 1700 who would dominate French painting for much of the eighteenth century.[1] Heir to the grand manner of seventeenth-century art, Boucher nevertheless created a style and repertory of subject matter that was perfectly compatible with the intimate scale and refined taste of the court of Louis XV (r. 1715–1774) and hisÂ
depictions of rustic life, these pastorals sometimes drew their imagery from the theater
"Theater and Theory: Thomas Sully’s ‚George Frederick Cooke as Richard III.’"
Alexander Calder is perhaps best known for his large, colorful sculpture, which incorporates elements of humor and chance into uniquely engineered structures. Calder was born outside of Philadelphia to a successful, artistic family.
whimsical and lyrical sense of design to media as diverse as metal jewelry and theater
Discover works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and learn about the artist
Corot’s Salon Paintings: Sources from French Classicism to Contemporary Theater Design
Guy Pène du Bois painted Pierrot Tired while living in France in the 1920s. Although the artist’s strained finances forced him to live some 30 miles outside Paris, his fascination with that city’s café society and expatriate culture led him to paint many views of well-to-do restaurant and nightclub patrons.
the commedia dell’arte (and possibly more broadly with the artificial worlds of theater
The painting shows us the ambiguity and loneliness of life on the outskirts of society.Â
acrobats, and stock characters from the commedia dell’arte, a popular form of theater
