Women in Art

This statue of Andrew Jackson was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Tennessee in 1928.

This painting depicts the Pilgrims on the deck of the ship Speedwell on July 22, 1620, before they departed from Delfs Haven, Holland, for North America, where they sought religious freedom. They first sailed to Southampton, England, to join the Mayflower, which was also making the voyage. After leaks forced the Speedwell to make additional stops in Dartmouth and then Plymouth, its passengers boarded the Mayflower. Five months later the Pilgrims settled the Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts.

Designed by American sculptor Randolph Rogers, each scene depicting the life of Christopher Columbus is finely modeled. The doors were installed in 1863 and moved to their present location in 1961 following the extension of the East Front of the Capitol.

The bronze doors are curved, with a semicircular tympanum above two valves that are divided into four panels each. Techniques of Renaissance perspective and different levels of relief give each scene a sense of depth.

Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683) French finance minister and controller general under Louis XIV. Codified commercial, maritime, and colonial ordinances; reformed the French legal system.

This statue of Samuel Adams was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Massachusetts in 1876. Adams served as a member of the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1781, where he voted for and signed the Declaration of Independence. He is often referred to as the 'Father of the American Revolution.'

This statue of Helen Keller was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Alabama in 2009.

This statue of Patrick Anthony McCarran was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Nevada in 1960.

This statue of Jeannette Rankin was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Montana in 1985.

This statue of Sam Houston was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Texas in 1905.

This statue of Maria Sanford was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Minnesota in 1958.

Tribonian (c. 500-547) Byzantine jurist. Head of the commission that codified the laws under Justinian I.

This statue of Sarah Winnemucca was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Nevada in 2005.

This statue of Sequoyah was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Oklahoma in 1917.

This painting depicts the ceremony in which Pocahontas, daughter of the influential Algonkian chief Powhatan, was baptized and given the name Rebecca in an Anglican church. It took place in 1613 or 1614 in the colony at Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement on the North American continent. Pocahontas is thought to be the earliest native convert to Christianity in the English colonies; this ceremony and her subsequent marriage to John Rolfe helped to establish peaceful relations between the colonists and the Tidewater tribes.

Above each of the four Rotunda doors in the U.S. Capitol are scenes from the history of the American Colonies carved in relief into the sandstone walls. The three sculptors who decorated the Rotunda were employed during the rebuilding of the Capitol after the fire of 1814.

This statue of Eusebio Kino was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Arizona in 1965.

Rosa Parks' statue was unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the United States Capitol, approximately 100 years after her birth on February 4, 1913. This statue depicts Parks seated on a rock-like formation of which she seems almost a part, symbolizing her famous refusal to give up her bus seat in 1955.

This statue of Barry Goldwater was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Arizona in 2015.

Papinian (c. 146-212) Roman jurist. Author of fifty-six books about legal questions and decisions, extracts from which were influential in the development of the Justinian Code.

This statue of Esther Hobart Morris was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Wyoming in 1960.