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A woman with light colored skin, wearing a black top and white pants, talks to a group of people in a gallery room. She stands in front of a large, painted portrait of a woman in a high-collared red dress.
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View of the museum from outside showing the Neoclassical building from one corner. The building is a tan-colored stone with an arched doorway, long vertical windows, and detailed molding around the roof.
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“Ms. Americana” and America250 at NMWA
Posted: February 9, 2026
Category: Jane Peterson
As the U.S. marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, NMWA presents ten historical paintings that share a deeper story behind American artistic traditions.
A painting in a folk or simple style features a dark-skinned person with a black hat ringing a bell in front of a white church with a black roof. The church is surrounded by greenery, and on either side of a brown path leading out of the church are vibrant yellow, red, pink, and orange flowers.

On View: Salon Style in the Eulabee Dix Gallery
Posted: June 21, 2016
Category: Jane Peterson
In an effort to place more of NMWA’s collection on view to the public, the staff recently reinstalled the Eulabee Dix Gallery, located on the museum’s fourth floor, “salon style.”
Bucolic landscape rendered in a naive, folk-style of painting. The horizontal composition features a patchwork of yellow and green fields on rolling hills set against a blue-gray sky. In the foreground study farm buildings surround small figures tending to the land.