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Bust, Modern Style

Pablo Picasso · 1949 · lithograph in black on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2006.57.25

Hulking mountains are mostly backlit against a watery blue sky edged with shell pink along the horizon, which comes about two-thirds of the way up this horizontal landscape painting. Light falls across felled and gnarled trees along the bottom edge of the canvas. Two thin trunks, one of them broken to a jagged point, rise along the left edge of the composition with their green leaves outlined against the sky. The land dips steeply away into a valley wending between forested mountains. Fog has settled along the valley like a river of mist. The mountains lighten from dark, earthy green and brown close to us to muted fawn-brown in the distance. A sliver of pale-yellow sun peeks over the summit of the nearest mountain, which is to our left. Clouds kick up over the distant mountaintops, and a few wisps of peach-colored clouds float across the blue sky above. The artist signed and dated the work in black paint on a branch on the ground in the lower center, “T. Cole 1826.”
Thomas Cole, Sunrise in the Catskills, 1826, oil on canvas, Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1989.24.1

Sunrise in the Catskills

Thomas Cole · 1826 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1989.24.1

John Skippe, Saint John the Evangelist, 1782, chiaroscuro woodcut, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1973.58.4

Saint John the Evangelist

John Skippe · 1782 · chiaroscuro woodcut ·  Accession ID  1973.58.4

Abraham Bosse, The Prodigal Son as a Swineherd, engraving, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1982.40.4

The Prodigal Son as a Swineherd

Abraham Bosse · · engraving ·  Accession ID  1982.40.4

Abraham Bosse, The Prodigal Son in a House of Ill-Repute, engraving, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1982.40.3

The Prodigal Son in a House of Ill-Repute

Abraham Bosse · · engraving ·  Accession ID  1982.40.3

George Overbury (Pop) Hart, Mammy, 1924, drypoint with sandpaper and roulette in black on wove paper, Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen, 2005.145.16

Mammy

George Overbury (Pop) Hart · 1924 · drypoint with sandpaper and roulette in black on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2005.145.16

Georg Eisenmann, Mountainous Landscape with Figures and a Monastary, etching, Andrew W. Mellon Fund, 1976.77.4

Mountainous Landscape with Figures and a Monastary

Georg Eisenmann · · etching ·  Accession ID  1976.77.4

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An Evening Halt - Emigrants Moving to the West in 1840

Benjamin Franklin Reinhart · 1867 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2015.19.86

Johannes van Doetechum the Elder, Lucas van Doetechum, Gerard de Jode, Bird Dropping Blinding Tobit, c. 1565, etching and engraving on laid paper, Andrew W. Mellon Fund, 1975.65.2

Bird Dropping Blinding Tobit

Johannes van Doetechum the Elder, Lucas van Doetechum, Gerard de Jode · c. 1565 · etching and engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1975.65.2

Paul Revere, Buried with Him by Baptism, c. 1765, engraving in black on laid paper, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund), 2015.19.608

Buried with Him by Baptism

Paul Revere · c. 1765 · engraving in black on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2015.19.608