The Art Collection

The Old City Hall in New York was the meeting place for delegates from nine colonies, who drew up a Declaration of Rights.

The Congress returned to New York's old City Hall in 1785, 20 years after the meeting of state delegates in that building. Here, in 1789, George Washington was inaugurated president and the first Congress under the Constitution was convened.

This statue of Dr. Norman E. Borlaug was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Iowa in 2014. Borlaug's statue replaced a statue of James Harlan, which Iowa had donated in 1910.

A lone explorer in a canoe enters the picture, symbolically from the east.

James Oglethorpe, who founded the colony of Georgia and became its first governor, is shown making peace on the site of Savannah with the chief of the Muskogee Indians, who presents a buffalo skin decorated with an eagle, symbol of love and protection. (1732)

This statue of Oliver Hazard Perry Morton was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Indiana in 1900.

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 Patrick Anthony McCarran was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Nevada in 1960. He served in the U.S. Senate from 1932 until his death in 1954.

A Confederate soldier and a Union soldier shake hands, marking the reunion of the country after the devastation of the Civil War. A cotton plant and a northern pine tree symbolize the South and the North, respectively. This is the first of Allyn Cox's three scenes. (1865)

The white marble Peace Monument was erected in 1877-1878 to commemorate the naval deaths at sea during the Civil War.

The first Continental Congress met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where they agreed to suspend trade with Great Britain.