2:00 Films: Therese Raquin; La Marie 12:30 Film: After Modernism FEBRUARY 12:00 Introductory Survey: The 25 THURSDAY du Port 2:30 Gallery Talk: What's in a Face?: Societal Vision of the Eighteenth 12:00 Gallery Talk: John Singleton 2:30 Gallery Talk: Edgar Degas' 18th- and 19th-century Portraiture Century Copley's "Watson and the Shark" See bottom Images of Women (WB) (WB) 2:00 Gallery Talks: Sculpture for the panels for introductory (WB) and foreign language tours; see Collector: Clodion and Drawing Room 12:30 Films: Hackney's Fax Art; reverse side for complete film 7 SUNDAY 13 SATURDAY Statuettes (WB) Nancy Graves: Balance information. 12:00 Film: L'Auberge rouge 10:15 Lecture: Painting and 2:00 Film: Justice est fait 1:00 Gallery Talk: Art and Appro­ 4:00 Sunday Lecture: Blacks as Seen Sculpture of the 20th Century: The 2:30 Gallery Talk: What's in a Face?: priation in the 20th Century (EB) by Ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Origins of Modern Art 18th- and 19th-century Portraiture 2 TUESDAY Roman Artists 12:00 Introductory Survey: The (WB) 26 FRIDAY 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: 6:00 Film: Diary of a Country Priest Persuasive Vision of the Baroque 12:00 Gallery Talk: "The Pieta" by The Greek Miracle 7:00 Concert: The Fresk Quartet 12:00 Gallery Talk: "The Pieta" by 21 SUNDAY Andrea Solaria (WB) 12:00 Introductory Survey: The Andrea Solaria (WB) 12:00 Gallery Talk: Sculpture for the 12:30 Films: Hockney's Fax Art; Literary Vision of the Renaissance 8 MONDAY 2:00 Films: Les Belles de nuit; Silence Collector: Clodion and Drawing Room Nancy Graves: Balance 12:00 Gallery Talk: Claude Monet: 12:00 Gallery Talk: Introducing Art; est d'or Statuettes (WB) The Later Years (WB) Questions of Originality in Sculpture 12:00 Films: Le Ballon rouge; Crin 27 SATURDAY (WB) 14 SUNDAY blanc 10:15 Lecture: Painting and 3 WEDNESDAY 12:00 Gallery Talk: "The Pieta" by 2:00 Gallery Talk: "Ange-Laurent de Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Ange-Laurent de Lalive Sculpture of the 20th Century: The 12:00 Gallery Talk: Introducing Art: 9 TUESDAY Andrea Solatia (WB) Lalive de Jully" by Jean Baptiste de Jully, probably 1759, National Gallery of Avant-Garde Moves to New York Questions of Originality in Sculpture 12:00 Introductory Survey: The 12:00 Film: Fanfan-la-Tulipe Art, Samuel H. Kress Collection Greuze (WB) 12:00 Introductory Survey: The (WB) Persuasive Vision of the Baroque 2:00 Gallery Talk: Introducing Art: 4:00 Sunday Lecture: Rembrandt in Intensifying Vision of the Nation 12:30 Film: The New Modernists Images of the Madonna (WB) the National Gallery: It's Not as States 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: 10 WEDNESDAY 4:00 Sunday Lecture: The Italian 18 THURSDAY Simple as A, B, C. . . 12:00 Gallery Talk: Women Artists The Greek Miracle 10:15 Lecture: Painting and Garden and the Classical Tradition 12:30 Film: Boneshop of the Heart 6:00 Film: Wages of Fear and Modernism (EB) Sculpture of the 20th Century: The 6:00 Films: Casque d'or; Le Diable 1:00 Gallery Talk: "Ange-Laurent de 7:00 Concert: Angela Hewitt, pianist 2:00 Film: Si Versailles m 'etait conte 4 THURSDAY Origins of Modern Art au Corps Lalive de Jully" by Jean Baptiste 2:30 Gallery Talk: Edgar Degas' 10:30 Introductory Slide Overview: 12:30 Film: After Modernism 7:00 Concert: The Grieg Trio Greuze (WB) 23 TUESDAY Images of Women (WB) The Greek Miracle Honoring the Grieg Anniversary Year 12:00 Introductory Survey: The 12:30 Film: The New Modernists 11 THURSDAY 19 FRIDAY Intensifying Vision of the Nation 28 SUNDAY 2:30 Gallery Talk: Images of Musical 12:30 Film: After Modernism 16 TUESDAY 12:30 Film: Boneshop of the Heart States 12:00 Gallery Talk: Women Artists Performance in Art (WB) 1:00 Gallery Talk: Introducing Art: 12:00 Introductory Survey: The 2:30 Gallery Talk: Edgar Degas' 12:00 Gallery Talk: "The Pieta" by and Modernism (EB) Images of the Madonna (WB) Societal Vision of the Eighteenth Images of Women (WB) Andrea Solaria (WB) 1:00 Films: Hockney's Fax Art; 5 FRIDAY 1:30 Gallery Talk: The Mellon Century Nancy Graves: 12:30 Film: The New Modernists "Venus " and "Bacchus " Rebaptized: 20 SATURDAY 24 WEDNESDAY Balance 2:00 Gallery Talk: Art and Appro­ 2:00 Introductory Slide Overview: Old Masterworks with New 17 WEDNESDAY 10:00 Teacher Workshop: The Italian 10:15 Lecture: Painting and priation in the 20th Century (EB) The Greek Miracle Attributions (WB) 10:15 Lecture: Painting and Renaissance (advance registration Sculpture of the 20th Century: The 4:00 Sunday Lecture: Ladies, 2:30 Gallery Talk: What's in a Face?: Sculpture of the 20th Century: required) Avant-Garde Moves to New York Literacy, and the Apolcalypse: Gothic 18th- and 19th-century Portraiture 12 FRIDAY Between the Wars 10:15 Lecture: Painting and 12:00 Gallery Talk: Sculpture for the Illuminated Manuscripts (WB) 12:00 Gallery Talk: Introducing Art: 12:00 Gallery Talk: "The Pieta" by Sculpture of the 20th Century: Collector: Clodion and Drawing Room 6:00 Film: Touchez pas au Grisbi Questions of Originality in Sculpture Andrea Solaria (WB) Between the Wars Statuettes (WB) 7:00 Concert: Young iJck Kirn, 6 SATURDAY (WB) 12:30 Film: Boneshop of the Heart 12:30 Films: Hackney's Fax Art; voilinist 12:00 Introductory Survey: The Nancy Graves: Balance Literary Vision of the Renaissance

GALLERY TALKS lecturer. February 21, 24, March 5 at INTRODUCTORY TOURS SUNDAY LECTURES SUNDAY CONCERTS noon, February 20 and March 2 at Talks are given by education division Introduction to the West Building Lectures given 2:00 (WB). by National Gallery Concerts take place at 7:00 every lecturers and other National Gallery Collection staff and distinguished visiting Sunday evening through June 27, 1993, Art and Appropriation in staff. the Monday through Saturday 10:30, scholars at 4:00 in the East Building in the West Garden Court of the West Twentieth Century (45 Tours of the permanent collection minutes). 1:30, and 3:00 Auditorium Building. Admission to the National Robin Thorne Ptacek, lecturer. and special exhibitions are available Sunday 1:00, 3:00, and 4:00 Gallery and ite concerts is always free. February 25 at 1:00, February 28 at FEBRUARY 7 with a sign language interpreter and West Building Rotunda Concertgoers are admitted to the West 2:00 (EB). Blacks as Seen by Ancient Egyptian, may be scheduled for groups of five or Garden Court on a first-come, first- Introduction to the East Building Greek, and Roman Artists more with four weeks notice. Women Artists and Modernism: served basis beginning at 6:00p.m. Collection Frank Snowden For adult groups, please call Morisot, Mitchell, Frankenthaler, and Because the rest of the Gallery closes at Monday through Saturday 11:30 visiting Blegen distinguished research (202) 842-6247; for school groups, Graves (45 minutes). Robin Thorne 6:00 on Sunday evenings, concertgoers Statue of a Horse, -170-460 B.C.. Archaeo­ and 1:30 professor in classics (202) 842-6249 or write to Education logical Museum, Olympia Ptacek, lecturer. February 27, 28. arriving after that time may use only the Sunday 2:00, 3:00, and 4:00 Vassar College Division, Tour Scheduling, National March 3 and 9 at noon (EB). 6th Street and Constitution Avenue East Building, Art Information Desk Gallery of Art, Washington, B.C. FEBRUARY 14 Focus: The Permanent Collection Special Exhibitions entrance to the West Building. Concerts 20565. Include the type of tour you FOREIGN LANGUAGE TOURS The Italian Garden and the Classical are broadcast in their entirety on a one- Claude Monet: The "The Greek Miracle""Introductory Slide are requesting, two alternate dates and Later Years Tradition month delayed basis on radio station (60 minutes). Frances Overview. (30 minutes). Foreign language tours of the perma­ times, the number in your group, a Feldman, Education Claudia Lazzaro WGTS 91.9-FM every Sunday evening lecturer. February division staff. Meet in the nent collection are offered 011 Tuesdays. contact person, and his/her address. 2 at noon (WB). East Building associate professor of the history of art at 7:00. For further information about Large Auditorium, February 2 Tours of the West Building are at noon You will be notified in writing of the What's in a Face?: 18th- and 19th- and 4 Cornell University the concerts call (202) S42-6941. at 10:30, February 3 and and begin in the Rotunda of the West status of your request. century Portraiture (45 minutes). 5 at 2:00. Building. Tours of the East Building FEBRUARY 21 FEBRUARY 7 Gallery Talks are divided into Anne Helmreich, graduate lecturing John Singleton Copley's "Watson and the are at 2:00 and begin at the Art Infor­ Rembrandt in the National Gallery: The Fresk Quartet several categories: Focus: The Perma­ fellow. February 5, 12, and 20 at 2:30 Shark" (30 minutes). Wilford W. Scott, mation Desk of the East Building. It's Not As Simple As A, B, C... Ears Fresk, violin, Hans-Erik nent Collection talks include the lecturer. February 25 at noon (WB). (WB). Arthur K. Wheelock Westberg, violin, Lars-Gunnar Bodin, education division's traditional theme February 2: French Edgar Degas' Images oj Women Introducing Art curator of northern baroque painting viola, Per-Goran, cello tours based on objects from the February 9: Spanish (45 minutes). Clarence B. Sheffield. Jr., National Gallery of Art Music by Dag Wiren, Brahms, National Gallery's holdings. Special Questions of Originality in Sculpture February 16: German & Spanish graduate lecturing fellow. February 6, FEBRUARY 28 Mendelssohn, and Schubert Exhibition talks discuss works of art on (60 minutes). Philip Leonard, lecturer. February 23: Italian 19, 27 at 2:30 (WB). February 3, 8, 12 at 110011 (WB). Ladies, Literacy, arid the Apocalypse: FEBRUARY 14 temporary loan from museums and Beginning this month, introductory "The Pieta" by Andrea Solario (Samuel Gothic Illuminated Manuscripts The Grieg Trio private collections around the world. Images of the Madonna (45 minutes). tours in Spanish will also be offered on H. Kress Collection) (20 minutes). Aileen H. Lairig Sove Sigerland, violin, Introducing Art talks are designed to J. Russell Sale, lecturer. February 11 at the third Tuesday of the month. East J. Russell Sale, lecturer. February 13, professor of the history of art Ellen Margrete Flesjo, cello, help beginners understand the 1:00, February 14 at 2:00 (WrB). Building tours will begin at 12:00 and 14, 17, 23, and 26 at noon (WB). Sweet Briar College Verbjoni Anvik, piano language, techniques, and subjects of West Building tours at 2:00. German Curators, Conservators, and Other Music by Haydn, Dvorak, and Lasse the visual arts. Curators, Conservators, The Art Lover as Collector: "Ange- tours continue at their traditional time Specialists Thoresen and Other Specialists talks present the Laurent de Lalive de Jully" by Jean- and day. Honoring the Edvard expertise of Gallery professionals on a Baptiste Greuze (Samuel H. Kress Images of Musical Performance in Art Grieg regular basis. (60 minutes). Stephen Ackert, music Anniversary Year Collection) (20 minutes). Philip TEACHER WORKSHOP sixteenth-century Italy, using works Unless otherwise noted, talks begin in specialist. February 4 at 2:30 (WB). Leonard, lecturer. February 18 at in the Gallery's permanent collection. FEBRUARY 21 either the Rotunda of the West Building Saturday, February 20 1:00, February 21 at 2:00 (WB). The Mellon "Venus" and "Bacchus" Open to teachers of all disciplines Angela Hewitt, pianist (WB) or at the Ground Floor Ait Infor­ 10:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Music by Bach, Chopin, Granados, Sculpture for the Collector: Clodion Rebaptized: Old Masterworks with and grade levels for a nominal fee. mation Desk of the East Building (EB). and Ravel and Drawing Room Statuettes New Attributions (30 minutes). The Italian Renaissance, a workshop Registration required one week in (45 minutes). Philip Leonard, Douglas Lewis, curator of sculpture. for teachers, will focus on the art and advance: please call (202) 842-6796. FEBRUARY 28 February 11 at 1:30 (WB). ideas of fourteenth- through Young Uck Kirn, violinist National Gallery of Art CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS CLOSING EXHIBITIONS

Film Programs John Singleton The Greek Miracle: Classical Sculpture from the Dawn of Democracy, East Building Auditorium Copley's Watson The Fifth Century B.C.

A program of French cinema from and the Shark East Building, Upper Level and Mezzanine through February 7, 1993 the late 1940s and early 1950s through April 11, 1993 continues on weekends in February West Building The National Gallery launches the A recorded tour, introduced by with Therese Raquin and La Marie Galleries 74 and 75 2,500th anniversary of the birth of Earl A. Powell III, director. National du Port by Marcel Came, Les Belles democracy with this unprecedented Gallery of Art, and narrated by J. du Nuit and Le Silence est d'or by John Singleton Copley's Watson and exhibition of some of the finest Carter Brown, director emeritus, may Rene Glair, Si Versailles m 'etait conte the Shark (1778), a dramatic depic­ examples of original sculpture that be rented at the entrance to the Casque d'or by by Sacha Guitry, tion of the rescue of 14-year-old survive from fifth-century B.C. exhibition. Special headsets and Jacques Becker and other rarely seen Brook Watson from the attack of a Greece, created during the golden scripts are available for visitors who on the "tradition of films. Focusing shark in Havana harbor, is the focus age that brought forth new traditions are hard-of-hearing. An exhibition quality" which dominated postwar of this exhibition. Among the most of art and government still in brochure is available free of charge. film production in France, the series, popular works in the Gallery's practice today. Thirty-four marbles Pass system. The Gallery has continuing each weekend through collection, it has been joined by two and bronzes represent the great instituted a pass system for the March, was organized in association of Copley's most important known sculptural innovations and achieve­ exhibition. Advance passes may be with Robert Kolker, professor of versions of the subject one in a ments in the depiction of what has obtained free of charge at the English and comparative literature at Justice est fait, directed by Andre Cayatte, 1950 (The Museum of Modern Art/Film Still similar grand horizontal format Archive) been considered the ideal or classical Gallery's East Building. Passes may the University of Maryland. from the Museum of Fine Arts, image of the human figure. The also be obtained at all Ticketmaster Casque d'Or (Jacques Becker, 1952, Touchez pas au Grisbi (Jacques Boston, the other a smaller, vertical The New Modernists: Six European Kritios Boy, The Contemplative locations and Hecht Co. stores for a 96 minutes) and Le Diable au Corps Becker, 1954, 94 minutes); February composition from the Detroit Architects (Michael Blackwood, Athena, Cavalry from the Parthenon service charge of $2.00 per pass. (Claude Autant-Lara, 1947, 110 28 at 6:00. Institute of Arts. Other works in the 1992, video, 58 minutes); February Frieze, and Nike (Victory) Unbinding Through Ticketmaster PhoneCharge minutes); February 14 at 6:00. exhibition include five of the artist's 3 through 5 at 12:30. Her Sandal are among the icons of there is a $3.00 service fee per pass preparatory drawings, his oil study Statue of a Running Girl, 490-480 B.C., Bones hop of the Heart (Scott fifth-century sculpture on view. The and a $1.00 handling fee per order. Therese Raquin (Marcel Carne, Self-Guided Tours for Head of a Negro, and six engravings Archaeological Museum, Eleusis Crocker and Toshiaki Ozawa, 1991, exhibition is organized by the For this service, please call one of the 1953, 108 minutes) and La Marie by earlier artists, which Copley may 53 minutes); February 17 through Families John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark (detail). 1777-1778, The Detroit Institute of National Gallery of Art in collabora­ following numbers: du Port (Marcel Game, 1950, 88 have used while planning Watson 19 at 12:30. Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund tion with The Metropolitan Museum For the first time in its history, the Washington, DC minutes); February 6 at 2:00. These free family publications are and the Shark. of Art and the Ministry of Culture of National Gallery has installed inter­ (202) 432-SEAT Justice est fait (Andre Cayatte, 1950, made possible by a grant from the John Singleton Copley, born in of London the work vividly depicts examine important works of art in its L'Auberge rouge (Claude Autant- the Government of Greece. The active computer stations to assist the 105 minutes) February 20 at 2:00. Vira I. Heinz Endowment. Boston in 1738, had become a well- the traumatic event in his youth, collection. Baltimore, MD Lara, 1951, 95 minutes); February 7 exhibition is made possible by Philip public in the interpretation of an Portraits & Personalities explores established portrait painter by the which resulted in the loss of part of The exhibition was organized by (410) 481-SEAT at 12:00. Le Ballon rouge (Albert Lamorisse, Morris Companies Inc. exhibition. Perseus, a powerful famous portraits in the Gallery's late 1750s. Paul Revere, John his leg. Copley drew upon classical the National Gallery of Art in coop­ 1956, 34 minutes) and Crin blanc The Greek Miracle includes research tool for the study of ancient Nationwide toll-free Diary of a Country-Priest (Robert collection for families with children Hancock, and Samuel Adams were sources in his heroic portrayal of a eration with the Detroit Institute of (Albert Lamorisse, 1952, 40 twenty-two pieces from Greece, most Greece developed by Harvard (800) 551-SEAT Bresson, 1950, 118 minutes); ages 8 to 10. Available in the West among some of his politically man caught between life and death. Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts, minutes); February 21 at 12:00. of which have never before left their University and published by Yale Same-day passes are available free of February 7 at 6:00. Building Main Floor Art Information important sitters. In the spring of While the painting recalls Renais­ Boston. Ellen G. Miles, curator of native soil, and twelve more from University Press, has been specially charge, but in limited numbers, in Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Room. 1774, Copley went to London and sance pyramidal geometries in its painting and sculpture at the National After Modernism: The Dilemma of Europe's leading museums and The adapted for public use in conjunction the East Building at 4th Street and Clouzot. 1953, 148 minutes); Shapes & Patterns focuses on the Italy, studying Italian paintings and arrangement, its animated, spot­ Portrait Gallery, Washington, is guest Influence (Michael Blackwood, 1992. Metropolitan Museum of Art. with the exhibition. Funding for the Constitution Avenue, N.W. The February 21 at 6:00. geometry of the East Building's art classical sculpture. lighted figures and strong diagonal curator and author of the exhibition video, 58 minutes); February 10 The works were selected by guest Perseus installation was provided by passes will be distributed each day and architecture for families with Watson and the Shark was the accents infuse the painting with a brochure. Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., through 12 at 12:30. Hockney's Fax Art (Yorkshire TV curator Diana Buitron-Oliver, a well- The Circle of the National Gallery of thereafter on a first-come, first- children ages 4 to 8. Available at the first large-scale history painting that modern, romantic tension. curator of American and British International, 1990, video, 25 known and widely published scholar Art. Macintosh computers are pro­ served basis at the Gallery from Les Belles de nuit (Rene Glair, 1952, East Building Art Information Desk. Copley created abroad. Commis­ John Singleton Copley's Watson paintings, is coordinating curator for minutes) and l\Tancy Graves: of Greek and Roman art and archae­ vided courtesy of Apple Computers. 10:00 to 5:00 p.m. on weekdays and 89 minutes) and Le Silence est d'or sioned by Brook Watson the and the Shark is just one in a series the National Gallery of Art. Balance (Learning Designs and ology who teaches at Georgetown Inc.- monitors and graphics cards Saturdays, and 11:00 to 6:00 p.m on (Rene Glair, 1947, 99 minutes); subject of the painting, a wealthy of focus exhibitions that the After closing at the Gallery on WNET/13, 1992, video, 30 University in Washington. The Greek were supplied by SuperMac Tech- Sundays. For more information on February 13 at 2:00. Self-Guided Tour for merchant and one-time Lord Mavor National Gallery has organized to April 11. the exhibition will travel to minutes): February 24 through 26 at coordinator for the exhibition is nologv. passes, call (202) 842-6684. the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Fanfan-la- Tulipe (Christian-Jaque, 12:30 and February 28 at 1:00. Adults Katerina Romiopoulou, director of where it will be seen from May 13 to antiquities, Ministry of Culture of the 1952, 102 minutes); February 14 at "7/1/7? Still Learning," Late Works by Si Versailles rn'eait conte (Sacha August 1, 1993. Government of Greece. Carlos A. 12:00. Masters discusses works by Titian, Guitry, 1953, 148 minutes); Picon, curator-in-charge of the Stieglitz in the Darkroom El Greco. Rembrandt, Homer, February 27 at 2:00. department of Greek and Roman art Monet, Cezanne, Matisse, and others East Building. Ground Floor New Gallery Guide at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, who continued to paint without loss 14, 1993 is coordinating the exhibition in New through February of creativity or inspiration into their The first comprehensive survey of 13 York, where it will be seen March 11 Special Course FEBRUARY 10 AND last years. Available in the West the Gallery's collections, National The art of photographic technique is of photographs Sarah Greenough. Art through May 23, 1993. The Origins of Modern Building Main Floor Art Information Gallery of Art, Washington, 328 demonstrated in this exhibition of who is author of the accompanying Painting and Sculpture of the A fullv illustrated catalogue FEBRUARY 17 AND 20 Room. pages, with 309 color plates, is seventy-five prints by the preeminent brochure. Constance McCabe and Twentieth Century includes object entries by Buitron- Between the Wars available in a reasonably priced American photographer Alfred Nora Kennedy, National Gallery This series of slide talks related to the paperback format. The works of art Oliver, essays by distinguished Stieglitz. By showing different kinds consulting conservators, also FEBRUARY 24 AND 27 permanent collection is given on are illustrated in full color and the international scholars, and an of prints made from the same nega­ contributed to the brochure, along The Avant-Garde Moves to New York Recorded Tours Wednesdays and repeated Saturdays. texts have been written by Gallery introduction by Nicholas Gage, tive, the exhibition examines how with Julia Thompson, exhibition Audio tours are $3.50 and $3.00 for Admission is free but seating is limited. MARCH 3 AND 6 staff and other experts. To order the Greek-born writer and former photographic prints look, how they assistant in the department of senior citizens, students, and groups Abstract Expressionists and Others handbook at the special price of correspondent in Athens for the New differ from one another, and how the photographs. The brochure is made Robin Thorne Ptacek, lecturer of ten or more. Special headsets $10.95, please call our mail order York Times. An audiovisual artist controlled and changed his possible by The Arcadia Foundation 10:15 a.m. MARCH 17 AND 20 and/or scripts are available for presentation, narrated by actor Recent Trends office at (301) 322-5900 or visit our statements through cropping, scale, with additional funding from The East Building Auditorium visitors who are hard-of-hearing. Schehe a Bolswert, after Rubens. The Lion Hunt, National Gallery of Art. Ailsa Mellon Bruce bookstores. Christopher Plummer, in a theater tone, and paper selection. Circle of the National Gallery of Art. To reserve recorded tours for Collection adjacent to the exhibition space Works in the exhibition span The exhibition will not travel. groups, call (202) 842-6592. introduces visitors to the glories of Stieglitz's career, beginning with The following recorded tours of Series and Sequences: fifth-century B.C. Greece. This photographs taken in Europe in the Introductory Survey the Gallery's permanent collection Contemporary Drawings and Prints presentation is made possible by a late 1880s and continuing with may be rented in the Rotunda on the Introducing Western Art: Varieties of Visual Perception generous grant from Stavros S. portraits of Georgia O'Keeffe, includ­ Main Floor of the West Building: from the Permanent Collection Niarchos. Eistening devices for the ing several that have not been exhib­ Philip Leonard, lecturer FEBRUARY 2 AND 6 The Director's Tour (a discussion of West Building, Central Gallery audiovisual presentation, to assist ited in more than sixty years. Stieg­ noon The Literary Vision of the fifteenth- through twentieth-century through March 14, 1993 visitors who are hard-of-hearing, are litz was the first to take successful East Building Large Auditorium Renaissance paintings), Impressionist and Post- available on request at the recorded photographs during a snowstorm, Impressionist Paintings, and This selection celebrates many recent Picasso painting. Alex Katz's four Why do works of art look the way FEBRUARY 9 AND 13 tour desk. including Winter Fifth Avenue, American Art. An audio tape of acquisitions, including an exciting Polka Dot Blouse prints feature lively they do? Style is the usual answer, The Persuasive Vision of the which is shown in five variations. Twentieth-Century Art is also avail­ array of unbound portfolios and portraits of his wife from different but what really determines the final Baroque The following year, he made photo­ able for rental at the publications series of works in groupings that are angles printed in a combination of Exhibition Catalogue appearance of an object? Ultimately graphs in the rain, and in 1896 he FEBRUARY 16 AND 20 desk on the Concourse Level, East rarely exhibited as the complete sets screenprinting and lithography. the appearance derives from the The Greek Miracle: created some of the first night The. Societal Vision of the Eighteenth Building, adjacent to the post World the artists created. Abstract minimalist prints include assumptions and decisions made by Jasper Johns, 6 Lithographs (after "Unfitted Classical Sculpture from the Dawn of images. Century War II galleries, and on the Upper The 123 drawings and prints by Josef Albers' twelve "homage to the 1975"): # 1, 1976, National Gallery of Art, patrons, artists, and the public. This Democracy, The Fifth Century B. C. All of the prints in the exhibition Level Bridge. twelve artists represent a wide range square" screenprints, Gray Instru­ Gift of Gemini G.E.L. introduction to Western art focuses FEBRUARY 23 AND 27 $25.00 are drawn from the key set of Stieg­ A recorded tour for The Greek of subjects and styles. Among mentation II; twelve etchings, Pages, on the determining VISION behind The Intensifying Vision of the Nation litz's photographs given to the Miracle: Sculpture from the Dawn of figurative works are David Hock- by Robert Mangold: and Jiirgen Available from the National Gallery the object. In each lecture, a single, States National Gallery bv Georgia O'Keeffe Democracy, The Fifth Century B. C. ney's twenty etchings entitled The Partenheimer's Book of Wanderings, Ruth Fine, curator of modern prints Publications Service Alfred Stieglitz. Georgia 0 'Keeffe: descriptive word, highlighted in the in 1949 and 1980. The works were A Portrait Hands, 1918, National Gallery MARCH 2 AND 6 may be rented at the entrance to the Blue Guitar, which pay colorful one of only two variant sets the artist and drawings, National Gallery of Sales Information (202) 842-6466 title, emphasizes the source of these selected by National Gallerv curator of Art, Alfred Stieglitz Collection The Energized Vision of Modernity tribute to a poem by Wallace Stevens completed. Art, with the help of assistant curator Mailorder (301)322-5900 crucial decisions. Admission is free, exhibition. that was in turn inspired by a The exhibition was organized bv Charles Ritchie. but seating is limited. NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART Washington, D.C. 20565 GENERAL INFORMATION The National Gallery of Art and its collections belong to the people of the United States of America, European and American paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, and works on paper are displayed in the permanent collection galleries, and temporary exhibitions of art from countries and cultures throughout the world are presented on a regular basis. Admission is free at all times. HOURS Monday through Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Sunday 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The telephone number for general information is (202) 737-4215. Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD): (202) 842-6176 The East Building Auditorium is equipped with a frequency modulation system. A sign posted outside the auditorium directs visitors to the East Building Art Information Desk, where receivers and neck loops are available on request. The Gallery is located between 3rd and 7th Streets, N.W.. on Constitution Avenue. 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COVER: Relief with Athena: The Contemplative Athena (detail), 470-460 B.C., Acropolis Museum, Athens from the exhibition The Greek Miracle: Classical Sculpture from the Dawn of Democracy, the Fifth Century B.C.