Begun in 1800 when the mansion first opened and carefully refined since the 1960s, The White House Collection is a pageant of distinguished works that reflect America's ideals and achievements which includes the work of such celebrated American artists as Albert Bierstadt, George Caleb Bingham, Childe Hassam, Charles Wilson Peale, John Singer ...
The "United States Senate Catalogue of Fine Art" is a compilation of paintings and sculptures that represents American history over a period of 200 years, filled with over 100 extraordinary photos. Each work of art is illustrated with a full-page color photograph, accompanied by an essay and secondary images that place the work in historical and ...
Nineteenth-century Americans responded to landscape paintings because the subject existed all around them. Unlike paintings of ancient kings or mythic goddesses that in Europe were regarded as the highest achievement but in America were considered frivolous or morally corrupt, the land was a tangible presence, sometimes tranquil and serene, often ...
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