The Art Collection

AOC employees are responsible for the care and preservation of more than 300 works of art, architectural elements and landscape features. Browse our incredible collection below or learn more about our artists and featured collections.

U.S. Capitol Grounds Memorial Tree Cornus florida (Flowering Dogwood) planted by 1983 Graduating Class of Capitol Page School June 20, 1983

Page School Class of 1983 Tree

Text of the Plaque

U.S. Capitol Grounds
Memorial Tree

Cornus florida
(Flowering Dogwood)

Papinian, Relief Portrait

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.

Patrick Anthony McCarran

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.

Paul Pincus Memorial Tree

Text of the Plaque

U.S. Capitol Grounds
Memorial Tree

Quercus palustris
(Pin Oak)

Peace at the End of the Civil War

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)

Peace Monument

The 44-foot-high monument stands in the circle to the west of the U.S. Capitol at Pennsylvania Avenue and First Street, N.W.

Pecan Trees

Pecan. Carya illinoinensis.

U.S. Capitol Grounds Commemorative Tree Quercus alba white oak (The Charter Oak) On Behalf of the People of Connecticut The Charter Oak sponsored by Sen. Christopher Dodd Planted on September 12, 2007

People of Connecticut Tree

Common Name: The Charter Oak
Botanical Name: Quercus alba white oak
Planted: September 12, 2007

Plaque that reads: U.S. Capitol Grounds Commemorative Tree Ulmus americana (American Elm) To Honor the People of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Sponsored by Senators Edward Kennedy and John Kerry and Representatives Michael Capuano, William Delahunt, Barney Frank, Stephen Lynch, Edward Markey, James McGovern, Richard Neal, John Olver, John Tierney, and Niki Tsongas Planted on April 30, 2008

People of Massachusetts Tree

Text of the Plaque

U.S. Capitol Grounds
Commemorative Tree

Ulmus americana
(American Elm)

People's Choice for a National Tree

Text on the Plaque

U.S. Capitol Grounds
Commemorative Tree

Quercus borealis
(Northern Red oak)

Philip Kearny Statue

This statue of Philip Kearny was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by New Jersey in 1888.

Philo T. Farnsworth Statue

This statue of Philo T. Farnsworth was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Utah in 1990. Farnsworth is known as the "Father of Television."

Pizarro Going to Peru

The Spanish conqueror of Peru, Francisco Pizarro, leading his horse, pushes through the jungle searching for El Dorado, the mythical land of gold. Pizarro eventually captured the Inca capital, Cuzco. (1533)

Po'pay Statue

This statue of Po'pay was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by New Mexico in 2005.

Portrait Monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

This group portrait monument to the pioneers of the woman suffrage movement, which won women the right to vote in 1920, was sculpted from an 8-ton block of marble in Carrara, Italy. The monument features portrait busts of three movement leaders: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Lucretia Mott.

POW/MIA Chair of Honor

In November 2017 a Chair of Honor was unveiled in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center's Emancipation Hall to commemorate American service men and women who are prisoners of war or missing in action (POW/MIA). This chair is one of the original ordered in 1857 for the new House Chamber.