The State Department’s $100 million art collections are managed through the Office of Fine Arts and the Art in Embassies ...

Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution ... Trumbull would hang only four of the eight paintings there, in their giant sizes—12 by 18 feet, all regarded as artistically ...

Paintings and drawings created by participants in the events of those tumultuous years are scarcer still. Among the era’s artists, John Trumbull considered himself to be uniquely qualified by ...

one of a cohort of brilliant provincials that included Gilbert Stuart and John Singleton Copley. Trumbull vowed to tell the story of his time in a series of paintings that would “give to the ...

In some instances, the racist attitudes behind such paintings have been explicitly expressed by artists or painting owners, making them well-documented. Take, for example, John Trumbull (1715 ...