The Art Collection

Placed 1961. Two identical bronzes: 1) Dirksen Office Building, southwest entrance, west wall; 2) Longworth House Office Building, main lobby, east wall.

An unusual combination of dancers in Hopi and Navajo costumes performs a ceremony.

Innocent III (1161-1216) Medieval pope. Student of canon and civil law, who, like Gregory IX, preserved the remnants of Roman law during the Dark Ages.

The Ionic column is typically identified by its capital, which includes large paired spiral scrolls, or volutes.

A village celebration with dancers and indigenous percussion instruments is shown in a typical Hawaiian setting.

The extension of the U.S. Capitol's East Front and construction of the Rayburn House Office Building were highlights of Architect of the Capitol J. George Stewart's 1954-1970 term of service.

This statue of John L. Swigert Jr. was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Colorado in 1997.

This statue of Jacob Collamer was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Vermont in 1881.

This statue of Jacques Marquette was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Wisconsin in 1896.

This statue of James Garfield was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Ohio in 1886. Garfield was the 20th President of the United States, serving from 1881 until he died from a gunshot wound 200 days later.

The statue of James Madison in the Library of Congress James Madison Memorial Building depicts him as a man in his thirties, sitting erect in a chair that is draped with a cloak; his right foot projects beyond the statue's self base. In his right hand is a volume of the Encyclopédie Méthodique, which was first on Madison's 1783 list of books that would be useful to the Congress.