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Waves surge up the sides of a masted ship illuminated by moonlight in this horizontal painting. The bow is angled to our right, and a wave breaks onto the deck as the ship tips away from us. Two of the frigate’s masts are broken close to the deck so nothing of the sails remain, and only the lowest sail near the ship’s bow remains beneath a partially broken mast. The bowsprit, which angles up and diagonally off the bow, is also fragmented. Men pull on rigging or stand the gunwale at the edge of the deck. Other waves heave like mountains across the painting in shades of slate and gunmetal blue. The horizon comes about halfway up the composition, and muted, dark blue clouds edged with cream white swirl like a vortex around the full moon, which is in the upper left quadrant of the painting.
Thomas Chambers, Storm-Tossed Frigate, mid 19th century, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1969.11.1

Storm-Tossed Frigate

Thomas Chambers · mid 19th century · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1969.11.1

Stuart Davis, Abstract Composition, c. 1921 (dated 1927), watercolor over graphite on laid paper, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick R. Mayer, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.5.1

Abstract Composition

Stuart Davis · c. 1921 (dated 1927) · watercolor over graphite on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.5.1

Stanley William Hayter, Night and Day, 1951-1954, engraving in black, Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen, 2012.92.88

Night and Day

Stanley William Hayter · 1951-1954 · engraving in black ·  Accession ID  2012.92.88

John Henry Hill, Trees Profiled against the Sky, c. 1865, watercolor on wove paper, Gift of Mildred Gott Bryan and American Art Curator's Fund, 1982.3.1

Trees Profiled against the Sky

John Henry Hill · c. 1865 · watercolor on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1982.3.1

Eastman Johnson, Lambs, Nantucket, 1874, oil on board, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 2012.89.3

Lambs, Nantucket

Eastman Johnson · 1874 · oil on board ·  Accession ID  2012.89.3

John Singleton Copley, Sketch for The Copley Family, 1776, oil on canvas, Gift of Richard T. York, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.141.1

Sketch for The Copley Family

John Singleton Copley · 1776 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1991.141.1

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Tacoma from Seattle [verso]

Samuel Colman · 1894 · graphite on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2015.19.2914.b

Shown from the waist up, a pale-skinned woman wearing a ruby-red dress and voluminous, pleated white headdress sits against a dark background in this vertical portrait painting. The woman’s body is angled to our right, but she looks at us from the corners of her dark gray eyes. She has thin eyebrows, lightly flushed cheeks, faintly smiling lips, and a wide, cleft chin over a slight double chin. A flesh-colored mole is just above the left corner of her mouth. Gray hair is swept up under the upside-down U-shaped headdress, which is pleated with translucent white fabric along the front and up and over the back. Another ribbon is solid white with a blue, red, and yellow floral pattern, and another is dotted with solid white against transparent fabric. The earring we see is a silver, ornate cross shape, and four strands of tiny pearls are tight to her neck like a choker. More translucent white cloth, now edged in ruffles, wraps around her neck and shoulders and is gathered under a bow tied with more of the floral-patterned ribbon. The vivid red dress has elbow-length sleeves with a looping gold design near the cuffs. White ruffles peek beyond the edges of the cuffs, and she wears a ring on the pinky finger of her left hand. The bodice is tightly fitting, and the skirt bunches up behind the woman in the wood chair, the back of which curves just beyond her right shoulder, to our left. She unfurls a scroll of music with one hand and holds the sheet with the other. Her left elbow, to our right, rests on the top of a narrow, black keyboard. The background is nearly black.
American 18th Century, Lady Wearing a Large White Cap, c. 1780, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1980.62.45

Lady Wearing a Large White Cap

American 18th Century · c. 1780 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1980.62.45

Jackson Pollock, Emiliano Sorini, Untitled, 1944/1945 (printed 1967), engraving and drypoint in brown-black on white Italia paper, The William Stamps Farish Fund, 2009.4.3

Untitled

Jackson Pollock, Emiliano Sorini · 1944/1945 (printed 1967) · engraving and drypoint in brown-black on white Italia paper ·  Accession ID  2009.4.3

John Singleton Copley, John Temple, 1765, pastel on tan laid paper mounted on canvas (on strainer), Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2003.133.1

John Temple

John Singleton Copley · 1765 · pastel on tan laid paper mounted on canvas (on strainer) ·  Accession ID  2003.133.1