The National Gallery of Art has evolved through a unique partnership between the federal government of the United States and the American people. In one of the largest single gifts ever given to a government by a private citizen, Andrew W. Mellon donated his collection to the nation and built a splendid gallery to house it.
Panel 2 Frieda Schiff Warburg Adaline Havemeyer Frelinghuysen Duncan Phillips Kate
Ellsworth Kelly realized his first abstractions during his stay in France from 1948 to 1954. In these extremely productive years, he created a body of work whose refinement of line, form, and color remains the fundamental language of his art.
Kate Lowry, chief conservation officer, National Museums and Galleries of Wales.
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Auction Block #65, overlook, 2020, acrylic gouache on panel, Gift of Funds from Kate
Jean Honoré Fragonard, Love as Folly, c. 1773/1776, oil on canvas, In memory of Kate
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started with drawing and was inspired by cartoons like George Herriman’s Krazy Kat
Accession Number 1986.43.144 Copyright Copyright © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and
Peter Humfrey and Joanna Dunn based on the examination report by Kate Russell March
Courtesy of John Delaney, Kate Dooley, and Giorgio Trumpy, scientific research department
The strength and vitality of the people who helped establish the new Dutch Republic are nowhere better captured than in the work of Frans Hals, who was the preeminent portrait painter in Haarlem, the most important artistic center of Holland in the early part of the seventeenth century. This unidentified sitter—one of Hals’ most impressive portraits—was sixty years old when the painting was made, according to the artist’s inscription.
National Gallery of Art Bulletin no. 50 (Spring 2014): 2-19, repro. 2020 Dwyer, Kate
Meet a groundbreaking artist who made sculptures and prints for her people.
Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker, Agnes Gund, Kate Kelly and George Schweitzer, Lyndon
