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<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html lang="en-US"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"/> <title>Artle</title> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"/> <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.nga.gov/artle.html"/> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/etc.clientlibs/artle/clientlibs/clientlib-site.min.css" type="text/css">  <script>(function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start': new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= 'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f); })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-W8XHQQD');</script>  <link rel="icon" href="/etc.clientlibs/artle/clientlibs/clientlib-site/resources/favicon.ico" sizes="any"/>  <link rel="icon" href="/etc.clientlibs/artle/clientlibs/clientlib-site/resources/favicon.svg" type="image/svg+xml"/> <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/etc.clientlibs/artle/clientlibs/clientlib-site/resources/apple-touch-icon.png"/> <link rel="manifest" href="/etc.clientlibs/artle/clientlibs/clientlib-site/resources/site.webmanifest"/> <meta name="description" content="Discover artwork and guess the artist in 4 tries. 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Play today's game and learn more about their collection. After the game, scroll down to learn more about the artist.</p> </span> <button id="dialog-play">Play Now</button> <button id="dialog-close" aria-label="close"></button> </div> </section> <script>bindEventsForOpenDialog("artle-dialog-4");</script> <artle> <div id="root"></div> </artle> <script type="text/javascript"> window.promo = []; window.wcmmode = false; let promo = {}; </script> <script type="text/javascript"> promo = {}; promo.date = "2024-09-11"; promo.heading = "Featured Museum"; promo.path = "https://americanart.si.edu/artist/george-ault-171"; promo.imageAlt = "Smithsonian American Art Museum"; promo.image = "/content/dam/ngaweb/artle/saam1200.jpg"; promo.subheading = ""; promo.description = "<p>While on vacation in Provincetown in the 1920s, George Ault painted the local scenery in oils and watercolors. These works were shown at a local gallery and in New York. In the early 1930s, he worked on New Deal art projects, gradually severing most of his ties with the art market. He moved to Woodstock, New York, in 1937 but avoided life in the art colony there. A nearby barn, which he painted three times, was a favorite subject, symbolizing for hire a dying, rural way of life in the Catskills. In this sense, his work echoed, from his modernist viewpoint, the preservationist themes of many New England artists.<\/p>\r\n"; promo.ctaText = "Meet George Ault!"; promo.type = "partner"; promo.theme = "grayscale"; window.promo.push(promo); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> promo = {}; promo.date = "2024-09-13"; promo.heading = "Featured Museum"; promo.path = "https://www.getty.edu/search/"; promo.imageAlt = "The Getty"; promo.image = "/content/dam/ngaweb/artle/post-promo-Getty-logo.jpg"; promo.subheading = ""; promo.description = "<p>Today\x27s works by Abbott are from the Getty. Explore the Getty today!<\/p>\r\n"; promo.ctaText = "Explore the Getty!"; promo.type = "partner"; promo.theme = "grayscale"; window.promo.push(promo); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> promo = {}; promo.date = "2024-09-15"; promo.heading = "Featured Museum"; promo.path = "https://www.wallacecollection.org/"; promo.imageAlt = "The Wallace Collection"; promo.image = "/content/dam/ngaweb/artle/WC_LOGO_1C_POS1200.jpg"; promo.subheading = ""; promo.description = "<p>The works today come to us from the Wallace Collection. Explore their collection and visit the Wallace Collection today!<\/p>\r\n"; promo.ctaText = "Explore the Wallace Collection!"; promo.type = "partner"; promo.theme = "grayscale"; window.promo.push(promo); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> promo = {}; promo.date = "2024-09-05"; promo.heading = "Featured Museum"; promo.path = "https://www.clevelandart.org/articles/theres-nothing-real-van-gogh-watercolor-0"; promo.imageAlt = "Cleveland Museum of Art"; promo.image = "/content/dam/ngaweb/artle/CMAPostGame-1200.jpg"; promo.subheading = ""; promo.description = "<p>Cleveland Museum of Art zooms in on the details of one of Van Gogh’s watercolor paintings.<\/p>\r\n"; promo.ctaText = "Explore Van Gogh!"; promo.type = "partner"; promo.theme = "grayscale"; window.promo.push(promo); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> promo = {}; promo.date = "2024-09-10"; promo.heading = "Featured Museum"; promo.path = "https://collections.gilcrease.org/creator/brummett-echohawk"; promo.imageAlt = "Gilcrease Museum"; promo.image = "/content/dam/ngaweb/artle/Okpost5.jpg"; promo.subheading = ""; promo.description = "<p>Artist, writer, humorist, and veteran Brummett Echohawk (1922–2006) was shaped by his Pawnee heritage, culture, and ancestors. His artistic career began while he was serving in World War II, in the 45th Infantry Division (known as the Thunderbirds). His battlefield sketches were initially confiscated by the army; some were returned after the war and shown in London’s Imperial War Museum in the exhibition Faces of War (1969).2 Known for his heroism, service, and dedication, Echohawk was awarded three Purple Hearts, three Bronze Stars, and a Congressional Gold Medal.<\/p>\r\n"; promo.ctaText = "Meet Brummett Echohawk!"; promo.type = "partner"; promo.theme = "grayscale"; window.promo.push(promo); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> promo = {}; promo.date = "2024-09-14"; promo.heading = "Featured Museum"; promo.path = "https://www.nga.gov/audio-video/video/rachel-whiteread.html"; promo.imageAlt = "National Gallery of Art"; promo.image = "/content/dam/ngaweb/artle/NGAlogo1200Post.jpg"; promo.subheading = ""; promo.description = "<p>In her breakthrough 1990 work Ghost, Rachel Whiteread created a positive from a negative, making a plaster cast of a Victorian parlor\x27s interior \x26quot;void\x26quot; measuring approximately 9 feet wide, 11 1\/2 feet high, and 10 feet deep. Whiteread has said of this sculpture that she was trying to \x26quot;mummify the air in the room,\x26quot; hence the title. Whiteread created Ghost over three months in an abandoned building at 486 Archway Road, North London, covering the interior walls with multiple plaster molds, each about five inches thick. When the plaster dried, she peeled the molds from the walls and reassembled them on a steel frame. Ghost is prominently displayed in the East Building Atrium. The National Gallery interviewed Whiteread, and she discussed the process of making Ghost and provided new insight into her work.<\/p>\r\n"; promo.ctaText = "Whiteread on Ghost!"; promo.type = "partner"; promo.theme = "blue"; window.promo.push(promo); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> promo = {}; promo.date = "2024-09-09"; promo.heading = "Featured Museum"; promo.path = "https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.4590.html"; promo.imageAlt = "National Gallery of Art"; promo.image = "/content/dam/ngaweb/artle/NGAlogo1200Post.jpg"; promo.subheading = ""; promo.description = "<p>Mauricio Lasansky was one of the significant printmakers of the 1950s. His primary subject was the human figure. While his early work has affinities with the stylized forms of Latin American murals, from the 1940s on, his art encompassed cubism elements, boldly fragmented forms, and surrealism in haunting and often brutal imagery. Lasansky\x27s technical concerns led him to experiment with intaglio processes, often combining many methods in a single composition. His pictures were frequently technically complex, requiring numerous plates for a single image.<\/p>\r\n"; promo.ctaText = "Meet Mauricio Lasansky!"; promo.type = "partner"; promo.theme = "blue"; window.promo.push(promo); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> promo = {}; promo.date = "2024-09-16"; promo.heading = "Featured Museum"; promo.path = "https://www.nga.gov/features/bazille-hidden-compositions.html"; promo.imageAlt = "National Gallery of Art"; promo.image = "/content/dam/ngaweb/artle/NGAlogo1200Post.jpg"; promo.subheading = ""; promo.description = "<p>When Bazille was dissatisfied with his work or short of funds, he regularly recycled used canvases to paint new pictures. 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