The National Gallery of Art East Building in Washington, D.C.

The National Gallery of Art

East Building:

New Galleries for Modern

Art & Roof Terrace

Time for a confession...  I know very little about art.  A friend gave me a copy of American Art: The World's Greatest Art, which I leaf through several times a year.  Many of the artists I am sharing are from "my little book."

There are other artists' works in this post....  Internationally known artists and a few that I became acquainted with while reading fiction.

Both Members of This Club
by George Wesley Bellows
painted in 1909






Bellows' brush strokes underscore the violence of this boxing scene.

Head of a Woman (Fernande)

by  Pablo Picasso

model in 1909, cast before 1932

I didn't know that Pablo Picasso sculpted.  I can see hints of his Cubist works in this piece with interlocking facial planes.  

Nude on a Blue Cushion

by Amedeo Modigliani
painted in 1917

The Modigliani Scandal was published under Ken Follett's pseudonym, Zachary Stone, in 1977.  It iss a very pleasant art theft novel that awakened my interest in Amedeo Modigliani's works.

Baby (Cradle) by

Gustav Klimt 

painted 1917 - 1918 

Danielle Steel's The Kiss features Klimt's The Kiss.  I read Danielle Steel off and on when I was working as a librarian.  Star crossed lovers, Isabelle and Bill, suffer a tragedy during a tryst in London, England.

Harlequin Musician by

 Pablo Picasso

painted in 1924

shows his Cubist

development

Using metal to create art....

Aztec Josephine Baker

by Alexander Calder

created in 1929

Calder is also known for

his metal creatures.

This artist explored one topic, in its various forms.

Jack-in-the-Pulpit, No. 2

by Georgia O'Keeffe

painted in 1930

Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. IV

by Georgia O'Keeffe

painted in 1930

Jack-in-Pulpit Abstraction

No. 5 by Georgia O'Keeffe

painted in 1930

From close examinations of one small aspect of nature to human impact on a large scale.

Classic Landscape by

Charles Sheeler

painted in 1931

And, back to small scale human themes...

Woman Seated in an Armchair

by Henri Matisse

painted in 1940

Interior by

Horace Pippin

painted in 1944

Untitled by Mark Rothko

was painted in 1949

Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist)
by Jackson Pollack
painted in 1950

Study for Homage to the Square:

Light Rising by

Josef Albers

painted in 1950 altered in 1959

Number 7, 1951 by

Jackson Pollock

painted in 1951

Target by

Jasper Johns

painted in 1958

C & O by Franz Kline

 painted in 1958

Beta Kappa

by Morris Louis

painted in 1960

Look Mickey by
Roy Lichtenstein
painted in 1961

Green Marilyn by

Andy Warhol

painted in 1962

I remember Andy Warhol's dramatic entrance onto the art scene in the 1960s.  He said, "In the future everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes."  Did he have inside knowledge about the internet?