The Art Collection

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.

Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780) English jurist. Professor of common law at Oxford; author of Commentaries on the Laws of England, which had considerable influence on the importation and adaptation of English common law in America.