Star Spangled Banner

The original flag that inspired the National Anthem is in the collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. This reproduction is only available through the Smithsonian.

Portland Head Lighthouse, Hopper

Lighthouse and Building, Portland Head, Cape Elizabeth, Maine; from the American Paintings collection, was completed in 1791 under the orders of America’s first president, George Washington, and since has become the world’s most photographed lighthouse, renowned for its historic and artistic appeal.

MAM6447 2.75" x 2.75"

Dance at Bougival, Renoir

A masterpiece by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919), housed in the European Paintings Collection of the MFA. The motion of the dancing couple is conveyed by the swirl of the woman's skirt and by the blurred focus of the revelers in the background.

MAM6448 2" x 3"

Boston Commons

The soothing effects of dusk on freshly fallen snow are juxtaposed with Boston's busy streets. Boston Common at Twilight, 1885-86, by Childe Hassam (American, 1859 - 1935) depicts his view of the city's oldest park.

MAM6449 3" x 2"

La Japonaise, Monet

Monet created a virtuoso display of brilliant color that is also a witty comment on the current Paris fad for all things Japanese. The woman shown wrapped in a splendid kimono and surrounded by fans is Monet's wife, Camille, wearing a blond wig to emphasize her Western identity.

MAM6450 2" x 3"

Cats, Steinlen

Graceful cats as drawn by the Swiss-born French Art Nouveau painter and printmaker, Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen. Two Cats, 1894, Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen (French, 1859-1923).

MAM6452 2.5" x 2.75"

House at Auvers, van Gogh

Van Gogh's Houses at Auvers, 1890, shows the landscape of early summer. The view from above creates a flattened tapestry of shapes in which the tiled and thatched roofs of the houses form a mesmerizing patchwork of color.

MAM6453 2.5" x 2.75"

Great Wave, Hokusai

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa-oki nami-ura), also known as the Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjôrokkei) Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese (1760-1849)

MAM6454 3" x 2"

Camille Monet and a Child, Monet

Camille, Monet's first wife, is shown with a child in the garden of their house in Argenteuil, near Paris, where they lived between 1872 and 1877. The shimmering reds, blues, greens, and white that capture the brilliance of a sun-drenched day are applied with many small brushstrokes, whose varied shapes create the different textures of flowers, grass, and clothing.

MAM6455 2.75" x 2.75"

The Iris Garden at Horikiri, Hiroshige

The Iris Garden at Horikiri (Horikiri no hanashôbu), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei) Utagawa Hiroshige I, Japanese (1797-1858)

MAM6456 2" x 3"

Water Lilies, Monet

This art glass was inspired by the famous Water Lilies, 1905 painting by Claude Monet (French 1840-1926). Monet was fascinated with the changing light and color of landscapes, and using his garden in Giverny as inspiration, he painted his most famous water lilies series illustrating the effects of these changes.

MAM6502 3" x 2"

Irises

In May 1889, Vincent van Gogh chose to enter an asylum in Saint-Rémy, France in an attempt to control his frequent depression and hallucinations. Within the first week there, he began Irises, working from nature in the asylum’s garden. The painting’s first owner, French art critic Octave Mirbeau, one of Van Gogh's earliest supporters, wrote: “How well he has understood the exquisite nature of flowers!”

MAM6504 2.75" x 2.75"

Cafe Terrace at Night

Cafe Terrace at Night, is an oil on canvas work also known as The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum. Van Gogh painted several night scenes with stars during his career (most notably, the Starry Night paintings), but this painting was the first. The work is striking in its luminosity, with the prominent yellows and oranges of the café beautifully contrasting with the blues and purples of the sky. The Café Terrace still serves patrons in Arles, and has most appropriately changed its name to Café Van Gogh.

MAM6507 2.5" x 2.75"

Tulip Drie Polychroom Accolade

Delft tiles, originating in the 1500s in Delft, Holland, are beautiful hand painted ceramic tiles. The classic motifs for Delft tiles include landscapes, flowers, animals and sea faring scenes. Delft tiles are know for their white and cobalt color scheme, though this tulip design also incorporates a deep yellow, pale sea foam green, and small touches of burgundy.

MAM6512 2.75" x 2.75"

Keltische Roos, Art Nouveau

This excellent example of an art nouveau tile broadens the image of a rose to fill the field of the tile. The pale yellow rose and vivid green leaves on a deep brown background is created with a series of elegantly interlocking ellipses.

MAM6514 2.75" x 2.75"

Der Kuss

The Kiss (original Der Kuss), from Klimt’s ’golden period’, is probably his most famous work. It depicts a couple sharing a kiss, while their bodies are draped in bejeweled cloaks of gold, expressing the emotional and physical loss of self in the throes of erotic love.

MAM6515 2.5" x 2.75"

The Creation Rose

This window at the Washington National Cathedral is a ten petal rose created by artist Rowan LeCompte in 1976. Inspired by the Book of Genesis, “... and the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep ... and God said, Let there be light.” Predominantly blue, with bursts of autumnal colors, the window is an artistic celebration of light.

MAM6730 2.8" diameter

The Space Window

Officially titled, “Scientists and Technicians Window,” The Space Window hangs in Washington National Cathedral to commemorate America’s exploration of space and man’s first steps on the moon. In the upper center of the original window is a 7.18-gram basalt lunar rock from the Sea of Tranquility, presented to the Cathedral by the astronauts of Apollo XI. Rodney Winfield’s celebrated Space window captures our wonder at the cosmos.

MAM6792 2" x 4"

Head of an Angel

Fra Angelica was an early Italian Renaissance artist who focused on religious themes in his work. Born circa 1400, Angelica took his vows in 1425 and went on to create many spiritual pieces of art, inlcuding this one, for churches throughout Florence and Italy. Head of an Angel can now be seen at the Wadworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut.

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