The Art Collection

Saint Louis (1214-1270) King Louis IX of France. Author of the Mise of Amiens, a judgment on a dispute between Henry III and rebellious English barons.

This statue of Sakakawea was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by North Dakota in 2003. The eight-foot-high bronze statue depicts Sakakawea looking westward, with her infant son strapped on her back.

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

Massachusetts gave this statue to the National Statuary Hall Collection in 1876. Sculptor Anne Whitney (1821-1915) was the second woman to complete a full-length statue for the Capitol and the first to have one included in the National Statuary Hall Collection.

This statue of Samuel Jordan Kirkwood was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Iowa in 1913.

A map shows the islands now called Hawaii, which were annexed in 1898; an island native carries fruit in an out-rigger canoe with a cloth sail.

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

The bronze doors of the Senate wing are comparable to those in the House. Each valve consists of three panels, depicting events in the life of George Washington and Revolutionary War scenes, and an allegorical medallion.

This statue of Sequoyah was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Oklahoma in 1917. His statue was the first honoring a Native American to be chosen for the collection.

A couple picks cotton in the south with their cabin behind them and the plantation house in the distance.

Howard Chandler Christy's painting depicts Independence Hall in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787. Completed in 1940, the 20-by-30-foot framed oil-on-canvas scene is on display in the east grand stairway of the House wing.

Simon de Montfort (1200-1265) English statesman. Advocated representative government; established an early form of representative government in England.