An introduction to the artworks collected in the National Gallery of Art, featuring updated, revised, and expanded articles from Inside scoop, the Gallery's quarterly children's publication. Includes brief biographies and selective insights into the lives and works of over 50 art...
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"The revolution in watercolours of the later eighteenth century and its Victorian aftermath is acknowledged to be one of the greatest triumphs of British art. Its effect was to transform the modest tinted drawing of the topographer into a powerful and highly flexible means of exp...
This exhibition catalogue includes essays examining Vermeer's creative process, themes, use of perspective, patrons, and working methods. Each of the 23 exhibited paintings is illustrated with a full-page color reproduction with a historical interpretation and discussion on prove...
"One of Andrew Wyeth's most important paintings, Wind from the Sea (1947), is also the artist's first full realization of the window as a recurring subject in his art. Wyeth returned to windows again and again during the next six decades, producing more than 300 remarkable works ...
Some 250 works explore three distinct periods in American history when mainstream and outlier artists intersected, ushering in new paradigms based on inclusion, integration, and assimilation. The exhibition aligns work by such diverse artists as Charles Sheeler, Christina Ramberg...
"Curated by artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, this exhibition brings together works by an intergenerational group of nearly 50 living Native artists practicing across the United States. Their powerful expressions reflect the diversity of Native American individual, regional, and c...
A compilation of Harry Callahan's photographs throughout hs career ranges from 1912 to 1999 and reveals how he used double exposures, color, extreme contrast, and wide-angle photography to create lyrical, highly personal images.
"Hailed as a precursor of both pop art and contemporary abstraction, Stuart Davis captured the energy of mass culture and modern life. Beginning in 1921, a series of breakthroughs led him to develop a more abstract approach. Fusing American urban experience with European modernis...