Architect of the Capitol employees are responsible for the care and preservation of more than 300 works of art, architectural elements, landscape features and more.

Browse our pieces below or learn more about the artists, collections and subjects.

York, 1777

After leaving Baltimore the Congress met briefly in Philadelphia but soon moved to York, Pennsylvania, where it met for nine months in the old Court House.

Yorktown, 1781

At the end of the Revolutionary War, the British are shown laying down their arms against a symbolic sunset.

Zebulon Vance Statue

This statue of Zebulon Vance was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by North Carolina in 1916. Vance was a Confederate military officer in the American Civil War, governor of North Carolina and U.S. Senator.