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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 the collection below or learn more about our artists and featured collections.
    
    
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        ArtistAllyn CoxConstantino BrumidiJohn TrumbullThomas CrawfordVinnie Ream
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        LocationBrumidi CorridorsCannon House Office BuildingCapitol DomeCapitol Reflecting PoolCapitol RotundaCox CorridorsCryptDirksen Senate Office BuildingFord House Office BuildingHall of ColumnsHart Senate Office BuildingHouse ChamberJames Madison Memorial BuildingLongworth House Office BuildingNational Statuary HallOld Senate ChamberOld Supreme Court ChamberRayburn House Office BuildingRussell Senate Office BuildingSenate ChamberSmall House RotundaSmall Senate RotundaSupreme Court BuildingThomas Jefferson BuildingU.S. Capitol BuildingU.S. Capitol GroundsU.S. Capitol Visitor Center
      Busts of Vice Presidents of the United States

The vice president of the United States presides over the United States Senate, and the Senate honors these individuals in a collection of marble busts displayed in the U.S. Capitol. The Architect of the Capitol is responsible for working with the subject to select a sculptor, contracting with the artists with the approval of the Senate, monitoring and approving the work, and designing and procuring the pedestal.
    Corncob or Cornstalk Columns and Capitals

Some of the oldest and most famous interior features of the Capitol are located near the entrance to the Old Supreme Court Chamber. These six corncob columns, designed ca. 1808 by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, are among the most unusual and significant architectural works of the early Republic.
    Captain Smith and Pocahontas

Pocahontas saves Captain John Smith, one of the founders of Jamestown, Virginia, from being clubbed to death. Her father, Chief Powhatan, is seated at the left. This scene is the first showing English settlement. (1607)
    Washington's Inauguration, 1789

George Washington was sworn in as the nation's first president on April 30, 1789, on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York. The mural depicts (from left to right) Robert R.
    The Birth of Aviation

The first flight at Kitty Hawk (December 17, 1903) is depicted, with Orville Wright in the Flyer, which has just left the ground, and Wilbur running alongside to steady the wing. In the background stand Leonardo da Vinci, Samuel Pierpont Langley, and Octave Chanute; each holds a model of his earlier design for a flying machine. An eagle with an olive branch in its talons emphasizes this flight as a great American achievement and closes this last scene. (1903)
    Civil Rights Bill Passes, 1866

The 1866 civil rights bill, which prohibited discrimination on the bases of race or previous condition of slavery, prefigured the 14th amendment to the Constitution.
    Civil War Troops Quartered in the Capitol Plaque

This plaque identifies specific troops quartered in the United States Capitol during the 1800s.
    America and History

The first panel contains the only allegorical figures in the frieze. America, wearing a liberty cap, stands in the center with her spear and shield.
    Cornerstone Centennial Plaque
    Doric Columns

Doric columns typically have a simple, rounded capital at the top; a heavy, fluted or smooth column shaft; and no base. Flutes are vertical, parallel channels that run the length of a column.
    Oglethorpe and the Indians

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)
    Declaration of Independence Plaque
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