Let’s celebrate the summer solstice in the National Gallery’s Sculpture Garden with our partners from the National Museum of Natural History!Â
Orkin Insect Zoo on the second floor!
A lesson for preschool to kindergarten students about artist Henri Rousseau’s painting Tropical Forest with Monkeys. Students learn how to look at this painting, what you can read to learn more, how to create imaginary jungle, and a list of vocabulary terms related to this activity.
To make his jungle paintings, he first visited the botanical garden and zoo in Paris
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.
While working as a graphic artist on assignment at the zoo and circus, Calder discovered
Godefridus Schalcken was born in Made, a town south of Dordrecht, where his father, Cornelis Schalcken, was a minister. Schalcken’s father and his mother, Aletta Lydius, moved their family to Dordrecht in 1654 when Cornelis was appointed principal of the Latin school.
penceelkonst van den beginne af tot het einde van zyn leven rykelyk betaald wierd, zoo
Born in 1844 to a working-class family in Laval, France, Henri Rousseau worked briefly for a lawyer and served a stint in the military before taking a position at a French customs post in 1868; the nickname “ Le Douanier “ (the customs inspector) remained with him even after his retirement in 1893.
of a city dweller, constructed from visits to the botanical gardens, the Paris zoo
The Last of the Buffalo is Albert Bierstadt’s final, great, western painting. Measuring six by ten feet, it mirrors in size his first massive oil, Lake Lucerne (1858), also in the National Gallery of Art collection.
with specimens for the Smithsonian and also with live buffalo for the National Zoo
Peter Paul Rubens’s enormous painting, based on the Old Testament story of Daniel, puts us right in the lions’ den. The Jewish youth was condemned to spend the night with the brutal beasts for worshipping his God rather than the Persian king Darius.
is Craig Saffoe, I’m the curator of Great Cats at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo
The New York Zoological Park (now the Bronx Zoo) provided the artist with ready models
geest is, bedient zig van allerhande voorwerpen . . . dat men alles even natuurlyk, zoo
The US national park system exists in part because of artists.
Interaction with Whales, New Bedford Whaling Museum Mapping Thoreau Country National Zoo
