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.