National Gallery of Art CALENDAR OF EVENTS June 1990 JUNE Monday, May 28 Monday, June 4 Monday, jumr ll through through through igh Sunday, June 3 Sunday, June 10 Sunday, June 17 Sunday, June 24

COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS May 30-June 3 June 6-June 10 June 13-June 17 June20-June24

Brief gallery talks given by Education Robert Motherwell Bartolome Esteban Murillo Auguste Renoir Winslow Homer Department lecturers on a single work of art. Reconciliation Elegy The Return of the Prodigal Oarsmen at Chatou Hound and Hunter Reproductions of the works discussed may be (Gift of the Collectors Son (Gift of Sam A. Eewisohn) (Gift of Stephen C. Clark) purchased in the Gallery's sales shops; a Committee) (Gift of the Avalon West Building, Gallery 81 West Building, Gallery 68 written text is available without charge. East Building, Concourse Foundation) Level West Building, Gallery 36 Philip Eeonard, Eecturer Wilford W Scott, Eecturer Wednesday through Saturday 12:00p.m. Sunday 2:00 p. m. Sally Shelburne, Eecturer Sarah Schroth, Please note new daily schedule. David E. Finley Fellow Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

FILMS May 30-June 3 June 6-June 10 June 13-June 17 June 20-June 24

Free films on art and feature films related to Matisse, Voyages (Didier Art of the Western World, Art of the Western World, Art of the Western World, special exhibitions. Unreserved seats are Baussy, 1988,58mm.) Program 7: Impressionism Program 8: Into the Program 9: In Our Own Time available on a first-come, first-served basis. Wed. through Fri. 12:30 and Post-Impressionism Twentieth Century (WNET, (WNET, 1989, 60 min., Sun. 1:00 (WNET, 1989, 60 min.., 1989, 60 min., video) video) East Building Auditorium video) Wed. through Fri. 12:30 Wed. through Fri. 12:30 Torment (Alf Sjoberg and Wed. through Fri. 12:30 Sun. 1:00 Sun. 1:00 The East Building will close at 6:00p.m. on Ingmar Bergman, 1944, Sun. 1:00 Sundays, but the Fourth Street entrance will 90 min.) The Naked Night (Ingmar Karin Mdnsdotter (Alf remain open only for film audiences Sat. 2:30 Summer Interlude (Ingmar Bergman, 1954, 95 min.) and Sjoberg, 1953, 102 min.) Bergman, 1950, 95 min.) A Lesson in Love (Ingmar Sat. 2:30 Miss Julie (Alf Sjoberg, Sat. 2:30 Bergman, 1954, 95 min.) Sun. 6:00 1950, 90 min.) Sat. 2:00 Sun. 6:00 Secrets of Women (Ingmar Sun. 6:00 Bergman, 1952, 108 min.) Sun. 6:00

Miss Julie, 1950, directed by Alf Sjoberg, to be shown June 3 (The Museum of Modern Art/Film Stills Archive)

SUNDAY LECTURES June 3 June 10 June 17 June 24

Free lectures given by distinguished scholars. The Profane and the Sacred: The Academic Reaction in On the Allegory of the The National Gallery of No reservations needed but seating is limited. Why Art Offends Later Nineteenth-Century Seasons in Jasper Johns ' Art Scotland and Its Collection French Art Sunday 4:00 p.m. Jane Addams Alien James Cuno Hugh Macandrew East Building Auditorium Art Critic Patricia Mainardi Director, Hood Museum of Art Keeper of Prints and Washington, D.C. Professor of Art History, Dartmouth College Drawings Brooklyn College and The Hanover, New Hampshire National Gallery of Scotland, Graduate Center, City Edinburgh University of New York

SUNDAY CONCERTS June 3 June 10 June 17 June 24

Free concerts by the National Gallery Duncan Stearns, piano Ariel Trio Daria Telizyn, piano Theodora Hanslowe, mezzo- Orchestra, recitalists, and ensembles. soprano , Mark Markham, Unreserved seats available from 6:00 p.m. Music of Franck, Ravel, and Music of Beethoven, Martin, Music of Barber, Tchaikovsky, piano All concerts are broadcast live by Alkan and Dvorak and Eiszt WGMS 103.5 FM Music of Poulenc, Schoen- Sunday 7:00p.m. berg, songs by Purcell and West Building, West Garden Court Obradors

The West Building will close at 6:00p.m. on Final concert of the season. Sundays, but concert audiences may enter Concerts will resume in the through the Fourth Street and Constitution fall. Avenue entrances. Masters of Nineteenth-Century Film Programs Painting from the Annenberg East Building Auditorium and Biihrle Collections Matisse, Voyages^ a new film written and The education department offers a series of directed by Didier Baussy for the Centre five lectures on important impressionist and Georges Pompidou, will be shown May 30 post-impressionist artists represented in two through June 3 in conjunction with the exhi­ significant private collections currently on view bition Matisse in Morocco. Art of the Western at the National Gallery of Art. The lectures are World., a nine-part series produced last year in held at 12:30 on Tuesdays and will be repeated association with WNET/Thirteen, New York, on Saturdays at the same time in the East will continue from June 6 through June 24 Building Auditorium. Tickets are not required, with the last three episodes in the series: but seating is limited and on a first-come, first- Impressionism and Post-Impressionism^ Into served basis. the Twentieth Century^ and In Our Own Time. The series "Alf Sjoberg and Ingmar Manet and Degas, May 29, June 2, Bergman: Early Films" continues in June with Eric Denker, lecturer seven films by the two Swedish directors June 12, 16, Early Impressionism: Renoir and equally distinguished for their work in theater Monet, Philip Eeonard, lecturer and cinema. Karin Mansdotter (1953), a masterwork by Alf Sjoberg rarely screened in June 19, 23, Cezanne, the United States, has been loaned by the Wilford W. Scott, lecturer Swedish Film Institute in Stockholm. This June 26, 30, Monet's Later Work, intricately structured film relates the life of the Frances Feldman, lecturer mistress of King ^ik XIV and is partially based on August Strindberg's Erik XIV. The July 3, 7, Van Gogh and Gauguin, series is presented in association with Edvard Dennis Weller, lecturer Munch: Master Prints from the Epstein Family During the week of each lecture, a related tour Collection. of the artists' works in the permanent collec­ tion will be offered. The tours will begin at 1:00 on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, in the West Building, Rotunda. Gallery Talks The talks are given by members of the museum staff and by Graduate Lecturing Fellows in the education department. All talks Introduction to the Annenberg begin at 2:00 p.m. and Biihrle Collections The Drawings of Jasper Johns, Nan Rosenthal, From May 15 through July 15, the education Curator of Twentieth-Century Art, department presents introductory slide lectures Wednesday, June 6; Meet in the 7th Street on the Annenberg and Biihrle Collections. The Eobby, West Building 45-minute overviews will take place in the East Building Auditorium Tuesdays, Thursdays, and The Expatriates: Whistler, Sargent, and Saturdays at 11:00 a.m. and Wednesdays and Cassatt, Barbara Baxter, Graduate Fridays at 2:30 p.m. Reservations are not Lecturing Fellow, Education Department, necessary, but seating is limited and on a first- Wednesday, May 30, Saturday, June 9, come, first-served basis. Wednesday, June 20; Meet in the West Building, Rotunda

Jasper Johns: Painting on Painting, Barbara Baxter, Graduate Lecturing Fellow, Education Department, Saturday, June 23; Meet at the East Building Information Desk

Introduction to the West Recorded Tours Building Collections The Director's Tour of the West Building collec­ by J. Carter Brown, is available Monday through Saturday 3:00 p.m. tions, narrated Floor Sales Area during Gallery Sunday 1:00 p.m. at the Ground West Building, Rotunda hours. A recorded tour of Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture is available in two parts at the East Building publications desk, Introduction to the East Concourse Level. Building Collections Recorded tours of Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Monday through Friday 11:30 a.m. Annenberg Collection and The Passionate Eye: Saturday 11:00 a.m. Impressionism and Other Master Paintings Sunday 12:00 p.m. from the Collection ofEmil G. Biihrle^ both East Building, Ground Floor Information Desk narrated by J. Carter Brown, are available at the entrances to the exhibitions. Recorded tours are $3.00; $2.50 for senior Foreign Language Tours citizens, students, and groups. Regularly scheduled foreign language tours of the West Building are offered on Tuesdays at noon beginning in the Rotunda. June 5 French; June 12 Spanish; June 19 German; June 26 Italian OPENING EXHIBITION CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS

Old Master Drawings from the The Passionate Eye: National Gallery of Scotland Impressionist and Other June 24-September 23, 1990 Master Paintings from the East Building, Ground Floor Collection of Emil G. Biihrle On view are eighty-six works lent by the Through July 15, 1990 National Gallery of Scotland, which has East Building, Upper Level become one of the world's principal collections and Mezzanine of old master drawings. These works, created between the fourteenth and eighteenth cen­ The first exhibition in the United States turies, have been selected primarily from the devoted to the extraordinary collection of Swiss Italian and Netherlandish holdings, two main industrialist and collector Emil G. Biihrle is on strengths of the Scottish collection. Among the view in the East Building of the National superb examples are Raphael's Nude Woman Gallery of Art, through July 15, 1990. The Kneeling^ Barocci's Visitation^ Piranesi's An collection features 85 old master, impressionist, Imaginary Prison^ Rembrandt's Eliezar and post-impressionist, and early modern works. Rebecca at the Well^ Van Dyck's Study for Among the impressionist and post-impres­ Portrait ofNicolas Lanier, and Massys' sionist works are six paintings by Van Gogh, Landscape with the Temptation of Christ, one including The Sower, and seven paintings by of the earliest dated Netherlandish landscape Cezanne, including The Boy in the Red Vest, Canaille Pissarro, Road from Versailles to Louvecierines, drawings. The exhibition also includes out­ one of the artist's most famous images. The 1870, Foundation E. G. Biihrle Collection standing French drawings by Bellange, exhibition opens with works by old masters Poussin, and Fragonard, among others. such as Hals and Canaletto, and it closes with The works in Old Master Drawings from Federico Barocci, The Visitation, c. 1583, The National paintings by twentieth-century masters such as illustrated catalogue has been published by the National Gallery of Scotland were selected Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh Matisse, Kandinsky, and Picasso. The current Artemis Verlag, Zurich and Munich, in by Andrew Robison, curator of prints and world tour, inaugurated in Washington, the English, French, German, and Japanese. drawings and senior curator at the National only American site, will then travel to the Contributors to the catalogue include Margrit Gallery of Art, and Hugh Macandrew, keeper exhibition is supported by an indemnity from Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, August 3- Hahnloser-Ingold, Hortense Anda-Buhrle, and of prints and drawings, National Gallery of the Federal Council on the Arts and the October 14, 1990, followed by Yokohama and Christian Biihrle, of the Foundation Emil G. Scotland. A fully illustrated catalogue written Humanities. It will also be presented at the London in 1991. After the tour the collection Biihrle Collection. The exhibition is made by Macandrew and published by the National Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, November 3, will retire from international lending. possible at the National Gallery by Martin Gallery of Art accompanies the exhibition. The 1990-January 13, 1991. The exhibition is organized by the Marietta Corporation and is supported by an Foundation E. G. Biihrle Collection, Zurich, indemnity from the Federal Council on the and the National Gallery of Art. A fully Arts and the Humanities.

CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS Masterpieces of Impressionism Gardens on Paper: Prints and Impressionist and and Post-Impressionism: The Drawings, 1200-1900 Post-Impressionist Works Annenberg Collection Through July 22, 1990 on Display Through August 5, 1990 West Building, Ground Floor This summer the National Gallery has one of West Building, Main Floor This exhibition traces the development of the the greatest assemblages of impressionist and One of the finest collections of impressionist garden as a theme in Western art as it develops post-impressionist paintings ever on display in and post-impressionist works in private hands and changes from the Middle Ages through the one museum. In addition to the National is on display in the West Building. These nineteenth century. Early prints and Gallery's own collection of nineteenth-century paintings, watercolors, and drawings, assem­ manuscript pages illustrate sacred garden French paintings in the West Building, two of bled by the Honorable and Mrs. Walter H. scenes and medieval gardens of love. Benais- the world's outstanding private collections Annenberg since the 1950s, had never been sance topographical views of gardens show a featuring impressionist and post-impressionist presented together to the public before the new concern for realism, and highly refined art are shown. Masterpieces of Impressionism current tour. Among the works exhibited are baroque depictions convey the image of grand and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg the haunting House with Cracked Walls by aristocratic and royal gardens. Eighteenth- Collection, on view through August 5 in the Cezanne, the elegant Vase of Roses by Van century prints and drawings of gardens attest West Building, is comprised of 54 works from Gogh, and The Siesta by Gauguin. The to a profound desire to conform to the the distinguished collection of the Honorable principles of nature, and nineteenth-century Paul Gauguin, The Siesta, 1892-1894, From the exhibition of 54 works in Washington will representations of small private gardens and Mrs. Walter H. Annenberg. The Passion­ Collection of The Hon. and Mrs. Walter H. Annenberg include, for the first time, three recent and ate Eye: Impressionist and Other Master acquisitions by Ambassador Annenberg: At the public parks reflect the new importance of the Paintings from the Collection of Emil G. Eapin Agile by Pablo Picasso, The Studio by post-industrial middle classes. Biihrle, on view through July 15 in the East Georges Braque, and Asters and Fruit on a A fully illustrated catalogue published by Building, includes more than 50 paintings by Table by Henri Fantin-Eatour. the National Gallery of Art and University of the major artists of the impressionist and post- Buhrle, are available free of charge. Visitors Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post- Pennsylvania Press accompanies the show. impressionist movements that have rarely been may obtain advance passes for both exhibitions Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection was Support for the exhibition has been generously seen in the United States. at the East Building pass desk and West organized by Joseph Bishel, curator of provided by Estee Eauder Inc. Building Art Information Room adjacent to the European painting and sculpture before 1900, Pass Information for Exhibitions. There will Botunda. Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Colin Bailey, be a limited number of same-day passes avail­ Advance passes may also be obtained at all now senior curator, Kimbell Art Museum. It able free of charge at the National Gallery in TicketCenter locations for a service charge of was coordinated at the National Gallery by the East Sculpture Hall of the West Building $1.50 per pass, and through TicketCenter's Charles S. Moffett, senior curator of paintings. for Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post- nationwide PhoneCharge for a service charge A new edition of the fully illustrated catalogue Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection. of $2.00 per pass. To order by telephone, written by Bishel, Bailey, and Mark Bosenthal, Same-day passes for The Passionate Eye: please call the following numbers: consulting curator, The Solomon B. Guggen- Impressionist and Other Master Paintings from heim Museum, and published by the Philadel­ the Collection of Emil G. Biihrle are available Washington, D.C. (202) 432-0200 phia Museum of Art, will accompany the show. at the East Building special exhibition desk. Baltimore, MD (301) 481-6000 The exhibition began its tour at the Philadel­ They are distributed each day on a first-come, Bichmond, VA (804) 780-3777 phia Museum of Art, 1989, continues at the first-served basis. Same-day passes are not Nationwide toll-free 1-800-448-9009 National Gallery through August 5, and travels available by telephone or mail. to the Eos Angeles County Museum of Art, Advance passes to see the exhibitions, Entrance to the exhibitions will be by pass August 16-November 11, 1990, and the Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post- only. Passes are not available by phone or mail Metropolitan Museum of Art in the summer of Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection and from the National Gallery. Current pass infor­ 1991. The exhibition is made possible at the Camille Pissarro, Woman Emptying a Wheelbarrow The Passionate Eye: Impressionist and Other mation for both exhibitions is available by National Gallery and the Eos Angeles County (detail), 1880, National Gallery of Art, Roseriwald Master Paintings from the Collection of Emil G. calling (202) 289-5479. Museum of Art by GTE Corporation. Collection CLOSING EXHIBITIONS

The Drawings of Jasper Johns Matisse in Morocco: Through July 29, 1990 The Paintings and Drawings, West Building, Ground Floor 1912-1913 The Drawings of Jasper Johns features 117 A USA/USSR Joint Project drawings spanning this American artist's career Through June 3, 1990 of the last 35 years. Johns' familiar images of flags, targets, and numbers are featured in East Building, Mezzanine many of the works that reveal his virtuosity as Jointly organized by the National Gallery of a draftsman. His drawings are distinctive, in Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, part, for his use of several techniques in the and the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts same work, including freehand drawing, and The State Hermitage Museum in the Soviet tracing, and imprinting, as well as for his Union, this exhibition is the first since 1913 superb handling of a variety of media. The and the most comprehensive of its kind ever to exhibition includes one of Johns' most impor­ focus on the works made by Henri Matisse tant works, Diver, in charcoal and chalk on during his visits to Morocco in 1912-1913. two paper panels more than seven feet tall. Although each of his two visits lasted only National Gallery curator of twentieth-century several months, the motifs he found there art, Nan Rosenthal, and National Gallery influenced his work for the remainder of his curator of modern prints and drawings, Ruth Jasper Johns, Savarin, 1977, Ms. Agnes Gund career. Twelve of the twenty-three paintings on E. Fine, selected the works and wrote the view have never before been exhibited in the catalogue for the exhibition. After opening in United States, and many of the forty-seven Washington, the only venue in the U.S., the 1991. The exhibition and the catalogue are drawings were discovered during research for exhibition will travel to the Kunstmuseum made possible by Ford Motor Company. The the exhibition. Also on view is a 1913 letter Henri Matisse, Landscape Viewed from a Window, Basel, August 19 through October 28, 1990, exhibition is supported by an indemnity from from Matisse to Ivan Morosov, the Russian 1912/1913, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow and the Hayward Gallery in London, the Federal Council on the Arts and the collector, describing his intentions for hanging November 29, 1990 through February 3, Humanities. the Moroccan Triptych and the formula for the Matisse: Jazz and Other Works gray paint he used on the frames. The schol­ on Paper from the National arly catalogue that accompanies the exhibition includes new chronologies and significant new Gallery Collections and Edvard Munch: Master Prints documentation excerpted from letters and Promised Gifts postcards Matisse wrote while in Morocco. from the Epstein Family The exhibition is made possible by a Through June 3, 1990 Collection generous grant from the Richard King Mellon East Building, Ground Floor Foundation. After premiering at the National In conjunction with Matisse in Morocco, two Through September 3, 1990 Gallery, Matisse in Morocco will travel to The groups of works on paper by Henri Matisse, West Building, Central Gallery Museum of Modern Art, New York, June 24- ranging in date from 1906 to 1948, are on dis­ September 4, 1990; the State Pushkin Museum An exhibition of ninety-four prints by play on the ground floor of the East Building. of Fine Arts, Moscow, September 28- Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) Matisse's mastery of line and tone is evident in November 20, 1990; and The State Hermitage is on view in the West Building. These works a series of black and white prints and drawings Museum, Leningrad, December 15, 1990 are on loan from the Epstein Family Collec­ featuring several exotic odalisques, a theme February 15, 1991. The exhibition is tion, one of the world's largest and finest derived from the artist's Moroccan travels. supported by an indemnity from the Federal private collections of Munch prints. Drawn Late in life when he was not able to paint, Council on the Arts and the Humanities. from his own experiences, Munch's works Matisse invented a new process of "drawing Pass System: On crowded weekdays and depict the universal themes of birth and family, with scissors." The works that make up the weekends, free passes will be distributed if desire and jealousy, loneliness and anguish, second part of this display, from the colorful necessary on a first-come, first-served basis. death and regeneration. Among the prints are Jazz series, are a product of this technique. Passes are for specified half-hour entry times many of the artist's well-known images such as Printed from stencils, the light and witty Jazz and may be obtained at the special exhibition The Scream, The Kiss^ Madonna., and The Sin. scenes evoke the sounds and sights of the desk located on the ground floor of the East National Gallery senior curator Andrew circus and of celebrations and ceremonies. Robison selected the prints for the exhibition, Building. Current pass information for the which includes many of the finest impressions exhibition is available by calling (202) of Munch's major works, as well as a number 842-3472. Current Exhibition of their most interesting variations in different colors or states. The catalogue, published by Catalogues the National Gallery, will contain full-color Edvard Munch, Anxiety, 1896, Epstein Family Collection Twentieth-Century Painting and reproductions providing the best visual survey Sculpture: Selections for the Tenth of Munch's prints currently in print. The Anniversary of the East Building $19.95 exhibition is made possible by Statoil. A Profile of the East Building $15.00 Matisse in Morocco $22.50 Gardens on Paper: Prints Twentieth-Century Art: Drawings from The Armand and Drawings, 1200-1900 $24.95 Selections for the Tenth Hammer Collection Masterpieces of Impressionism and Anniversary of the East Through November 11, 1991 Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection $18.95 Building West Building, Ground Floor The Passionate Eye: Impressionist Through December 31, 1990 A new selection of master drawings from The and Other Master Paintings from East Building, Concourse, Armand Hammer Collection remains on view, the E. G. Buhrle Collection $19.95 Upper Level, and Tower one in a continuous series of rotating exhi­ bitions. Focusing on the human figure, this The Drawings of Jasper Johns $29.95 To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the East group represents four centuries of drafts­ Edvard Munch: Master Prints Building of the National Gallery of Art, a series manship and illuminates the breadth of the from the Epstein Family Collection $19.95 of twenty-five new galleries were designed and Hammer Collection. Included in the selection built to accommodate a greatly expanded are a rare study sheet by Eeonardo da Vinci, Old Master Drawings from reinstallation of the twentieth-century collec­ two exquisite chalk drawings by Antoine the National Gallery of Scotland $29.95 tion, complemented by loans from private Watteau, and a fine portrait by the nineteenth- Available from the National Gallery collections. century master Ingres. 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COVER: Vincent van Gogh, The Sower, 1888, Foundation E. G. Biihrle Collection