Pieter de Hooch excelled in the sensitive depiction of people going about their daily lives, be it inside their houses or in the sheltered environment of an urban courtyard. His masterly control of light, color, and complex perspectival construction can be compared to the work of Johannes Vermeer, his contemporary and colleague in Delft.
Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from Estate of Peter
Jan Lievens is among the most fascinating and enigmatic Dutch artists of the seventeenth century. Daring and innovative as a painter, draughtsman, and printmaker, he created character studies, genre scenes, landscapes, formal portraits, and religious and allegorical images that were widely praised and highly valued during his lifetime.
Explore Selected Works See all 20 works of art Artwork Jan Lievens, Deer Park
Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from Estate of Peter
A coming-of-age story by artist Gordon Parks, The Learning Tree was the first production
English In-person Films Still from Gordon Parks’s The Learning Tree, courtesy of Park
a number of views of Salem Willows, an oceanfront area with a popular amusement park
A coming-of-age story by artist Gordon Parks, The Learning Tree was the first production
English In-person Films Still from Gordon Parks’s The Learning Tree, courtesy of Park
Fine, Takoma Park, MD; acquired 1998 by the National Gallery of Art Associated Names
See artworks now on view Associated Artworks Riders in the Park Milton Avery
Artists are often particularly keen observers and precise recorders of the physical conditions of the natural world.
Huttleston Rogers, 1945.4.1 Vuillard in the Park Rousseau in the Jungle
In 1775, Gilbert Stuart set sail for London where Benjamin West welcomed the destitute young man into his home. The Skater marks the end of his five-year apprenticeship to West.
Thus artist and sitter went off to skate on the Serpentine River in Hyde Park.
