MAY 1:00 Gallery Talk: "Wall Drawing 8 SUNDAY 14 SATURDAY 19 THURSDAY 1:00 Film: The Inland Sea 1 SUNDAY .\o. 6S1 C" bySolLell'itt (EB) 12:00 Gallery Talk: Willem de 10:15 Mythology Lecture Series: 10:15 Western Art Survey Course: 1:00 Family Programs: Shapes from 2:00 Gallery Talk: "The Spirit of the Kooning: Paintings (EB) The Choice of Life: Heroic Action, The Seventies arid Eighties II: Life: Matisse Cut-Outs (pre-registra- 1:00 Film: Tales from the Vienna Humble" in Seventeenth-Centnn" 1:00 Film: A Mother Should Be Physical Pleasure, or Learned History of Photograph}' and tion required) Spanish Paintings (\\ B) Loved Contemplation Video Art 2:00 Gallery Talk: Renaissance and 4:00 Mellon Lecture: "Arils Plctorlac 2:00 Gallery Talk: Discovering 12:00 Gallery Talk: Jasper Francis 12:00 Gallery Talk: Willem de Reformation CWB) Amator": Archduke Leopold William 7 SATURDAY Abstraction (EB) Cropsey's "The Spirit of War" and Kooning: Paintings (EB) 4:00 Sunday Lecture: "RoyalBlue": oj Austria and Art Collecting in 10:15 Mythology Lecture Series: 4:00 Mellon Lecture: Reasons of "The Spirit of Peace" (WB) 12:30 Film: The Inland Sea The Color of a Collection Flanders The Survival of the Gods and State: Louis XII of France 12:30 Introductory Tour: 1:00 Gallery Talk: Renaissance 6:00 Film: Belle 6:00 Films: Dragnet Girl and What Goddesses 6:00 Films: Story of Floating Heeds The American Collection (WB) and Reformation (WB) 7:00 Concert: James Buswell. violin, Did the Lady Forget? 12:00 Gallery Talk: Discovering and The Only Son 12:30 Film: Paris, Story of a City music for solo violin 7:00 Concert: The Stanley Cowell Abstraction (EB) 7:00 Concert: Richard Lalli. bari­ 2:30 Films: The Man Who Had His 20 FRIDAY Trio, Jazz concert 12:30 Introductory Tour: The tone. Gary Chapman, piano Hair Cut Short; Avec Dieric Bouts: 12:00 Gallery Talk: Willem de 24 TUESDAY 3 TUESDAY American Collection (WB) Last concert of the Fifty-first and 1001 Films Kooning: Paintings (EB) 12:00 De Kooning Special Lecture 12:30 Film: Proust: A Hriter's Life American Music Festival 12:30 Film: The Inland Sea Series: De Kooning and His Heirs: 12:00 Gallery Talk: Archetypal 2:00 Films: / (fas Bom, But... and 15 SUNDAY 2:00 Gallery Talk: A Renaissance 1950 to the Present linages of Women (WB) Passing Farm' 10 TUESDAY 12:00 Gallery Talk: Jasper Francis Coffer and the Art of Memory (WB) 12:00 Gallery Talk: Jasper Francis 1:00 Gallery Talk: A Discerning Eye: 12:00 De Kooning Special Lecture Cropsey's "The Spirit of War" and Cropsey's "The Spirit of War" and Prints & Drairings Ciren by Ruth B. Series: "The Imagination of "The Spirit of Peace" (WB) 21 SATURDAY "The Spirit of Peace" (WB) Benedict (WB) Thomas Cole. Italian Coast Scene with Ruined Tower, 1838. -National Gallery of Art. Disaster": 1930-19+5 1:00 Film: Paris, Story of a City 10:15 Mythology Lecture Series: 2:00 Gallery Talk: "Wall Drawing Gift of The Circle of the National Gallerv of Art 1:00 Family Programs: Shapes from Allegories of the Cosmos, Time, and 25 WEDNESDAY \o. 6S1 C'by Sol EeWitt (EB) 11 WEDNESDAY Life: Matisse Cut-Outs (pre-registra- the Individual 12:00 Gallery Talk: Fanciful 10:15 Mythology Lecture Series: tion required) 12:00 Gallery Talk: Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European 4 WEDNESDAY 2:00 Gallery Talk: "The Spirit of the 29 SUNDAY The Choice of Life: Heroic Action, 2:00 Gallery Talk: Willem de Flourishes: Ornament in European Graphic Art and Related Objects, 10:15 Mythology Lecture Series: Humble" in Seventeenth-Century 1:00 Films: A Glimpse of de Kooning Physical Pleasure, or Learned Kooning: Paintings (EB) Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800 (EB) The Siuriral of the Gods and Spanish Paintings (\\ B) and Willem de Kooning and the Contemplation 4:00 Mellon Lecture: Toward the 1300-1 WO (EB) 12:30 Films: A Glimpse of de Goddesses Unexpected 12:00 Gallery Talk: Willem de Pre-eminence of Painting 12:30 Introductory Tour: Kooning and Willem de Kooning and 12:00 Gallery Talk: Piero di Cosimo. 28 SATURDAY 4:00 Sunday Lecture: Oil and Kooning: Paintings (EB) 6:00 Films: / n soir. un train and The American Collection (\\ B) the Unexpected 1-+62-1521 (WB) 12:30 Films: A Glimpse of de Hater: De Kooning in His Studio 12:30 Film: Paris, Story of a City Rendez-vous a Bray 12:30 Film: The In/and Sea 12:30 Film: Proust: A llri/er's Life Kooning and Willem de Kooning and 6:00 Film: L"oeurre an noir 7:00 Concert: National Gallery 2:00 Gallery Talk: A Renaissance 26 THURSDAY the Unexpected 7:00 Concert: Grant Johannesen, 12 THURSDAY Orchestra. George Maiios. conductor Coffer and the Art of Memory (WB) 12:30 Films: A Glimpse of de 5 THURSDAY 12:30 Introductory Tour: piano 10:15 Western Art Survey Course: 2:30 Film: Benvenuta (with Andre Kooning and Willem de Kooning and 10:15 Western Art Survey Course: The American Collection (WB) 77?e> Seventies and Eighties I: Post- 17 TUESDAY Del van x in person) the Unexpected The Sixties: Pop and Performance 2:00 Gallery Talk: ~T/ie Spirit of the 31 TUESDAY Modernism and \eo-Expression istn 12:00 De Kooning Special Lecture Art Humble" in Seventeenth-Century 12:00 Gallery Talk: Fanciful 12:30 Film: Paris, Story of a City Series: The Epic Years: After 19-to 22 SUNDAY 27 FRIDAY 12:00 Gallery Talk: Discovering Spanish Paintings (WB) Flourishes: Ornament in European 1:00 Gallery Talk: Willem de 12:00 Gallery Talk: Jasper Francis 12:00 Gallery Talk: Fanciful 12:00 Gallery Talk: Jasper Francis Abstraction (EB) 2:00 Films: Babel Opera and Graphic Art and Related Objects, Kooning: Paintings (EB) 18 WEDNESDAY Cropsey's "The Spirit of War" and Flourishes: Ornament in European Cropsey's "The Spirit of War" and 12:30 Film: Proust: A Writer's Life Femme entre chien el loup 7300-7$00(EB) 10:15 Mythology Lecture Series: Graphic Art and Related Objects, "The Spirit of Peace" (WB) Paul Maiisliip. Diu/iu and a Hound, "The Spirit of Peace" (WB) 1:00 Gallery Talk: A Discerning Lye: 1025, \ational Gallery of Art. 13 FRIDAY Allegories oj the Cosmos, Time, and 1300-1SOO(EB) 12:30 Films: A Glimpse of de 6 FRIDAY 12:30 Film: The Inland Sea Prints 6c Drawings Given by Ruth B. Gift of Mrs. Houdilon P. Mot calf 12:30 Film: Paris, Story of a City the Individual Kooning and // 'illem de Kooning and 12:00 Gallery Talk: Archetypal Benedict (WB) the Unexpected Images of Women (WB) 12:30 Film: Proust: A Writer's Life

Gallery Talks tion Division, Totir Scheduling, Jasper Francis Cropsey's "The Spirit Sunday Lectures Sunday Concert May 22 Audio Tours Foreign Language National Gallery of Art, Washington, oj II ar" and "The Spirit of Peace" James Buswell, violin Tours and lectures are given by Lectures given by National Gallery Series Special headsets and/or scripts are Tours D.C. 20565. Include the type of lour (30 minutes). Wilford W. Scott. Music for solo violin education division lecturers and of Art staff and distinguished schol­ available for visitors who are hard of you are requesting, two alternative lecturer. May 14, 15. 18, 24. 27 at Concerts take place at 7:00 every Foreign language tours of the National Gallery of Art staff. Unless ars at 4:00 in the East Building May 29 hearing. To reserve audio tours for dates and times, the size of your noon (WB) Sunday evening through June 26, permanent collection are offered on otherwise noted, talks begin in either Auditorium. Grant Johannesen, piano groups, call (202) 842-6592. group, a contact person, and an 1994. Admission to the National Tuesdays. Tours of the West the Rotunda of the West Building address. You will be notified in Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in Gallery of Art and its concerts is Permanent Collection Building are at noon and begin in (II B) or at the Art Information Desk 1994 ANDREW W. MELLON writing of the status of your request. European Graphic Art and Related always free. Concertgoers are admit­ The Director's Ton/; narrated by the Rotunda. Tours of the East of I he Last Building (EB). LECTURES IN THE FINE ARTS Objects, 1300-1800 (45 minutes). ted to the Last Garden Court on a Earl A. Powell 111, discusses fif­ Building are at 2:00 and begin at Kings and Connoisseurs: Collecting Focus: The Permanent Collection J. Russell Sale, lecturer. May 21. 22, first-come, first-served basis begin­ Introductory Tours teenth- through early twentieth-cen­ the Art Information Desk. Sign Language Tours Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe Archetypal Images of Women (60 25, 31 at noon (EB) ning at 6:00. Concertgoers arriving The education division has added a tury masterpieces and includes some Tours of the permanent collection Jonathan Brown, Carroll and Milton minutes). Frances Feldrnan, beltveen 6:00 and 7:00 may enter new type of introductory tour to the of the Gallery s best-loved paintings. May 3: French and special exhibitions are available Petrie Professor of Fine Arts, lecturer. May 3 and 6 at noon (WB) Introduction to Art only at the 6th Street and Consti­ schedule. The tours will examine a May 10: Spanish with a sign language interpreter for Institute of Fine Arts. New York American Art, narrated by Nicolai Discovering Abstraction (60 min­ tution Avenue entrance to the West portion of the permanent collection May 17: German and Spanish groups of five or more and may be Lniversity Cikovsky, Jr., curator of American "TTze Spirit oj the Humble'' in utes). Robin Thorne Ptacek.. lectur­ Building. The Garden Cafe is open in greater depth than the usual May 24: Italian scheduled with four weeks' notice. and British paintings, features works Seventeenth-Century Spanish er. May 5 and 7 at noon. May 8 at until 6:30 for a pre-concert dinner. introductory highlight tour. This For adult groups please call (202) May 1 by Copley, Stuart. Homer, Eakins, Paintings (45 minutes). Rebecca 2:00 (EB) Concerts are broadcast on a one- month the focus will be on the Spanish tours are repeated regularly 842-6247; for school groups call "Artis Pictoriae Amator": Archduke Whistler, Bellows, and other masters Albiani, graduate lecturing fellow. month-delayed basis every Sunday American co I lection. on the third Tuesday of every (202) 842-6249 or write to: Educa­ Leopold William of Austria and Art from the Gallery s collection of May 6, 27, 28 at 2:00 (WB) Renaissance and Reformation (60 evening at 7:00 on radio station month. Meet in the East Building at Collecting in Flanders American painting. minutes). J. Russell Sale, lecturer. WGTS91.9-FM. For further infor­ Introduction: The West Building 12:00 and West Building at 2:00. A Renaissance Coffer and the Art May 19 at 1:00, May 22 at 2:00 mation call (202) 842-6941. Collection Audio tours are S3.75 (S3.25 for Willem de Kooning: May 8 of Memory (45 minutes). Aneta (WB) Monday-Saturday 10:30*, 12:30, senior citizens, students, arid groups Special Lecture Reasons of State: Louis XII of The Fifty-first American Music Ceorgievska-Shine, graduate and 2:30 (* no 10:30 tour on of 10 or more). They may be rented Series France Festival, which began on April W, lecturing fellow. May 20 and 21 Curators, Conservators, and Other continues through May 8. Wednesdays) in the Rotunda of the West Building. at 2:00 (WB) Specialists " Unfitted": The Abstract Sunday 12:30, 2:30, and 4:30 May 15 Mayl "Wall Drawing No. 681 C" by Sol Expressionists West Building Rotunda Toward the Pre-eminence The Stanley Cowell Trio, Special Exhibitions LeWitt, Gift of Dorothy Vogel and Irving Sandier, critic and of Painting Stanley Cowell, piano., A Discerning Eye: Prints & Drawings Herbert Vogel (20 minutes). Molly art historian, New York Introduction: The East Building Cheyiiey Thomas, bass, Given by Ruth B. Benedict (60 min­ Donovan, curatorial assistant. May 3 Tuesdays at 12:00 noon Collection SUNDAY LECTURES War dell A. Thomas, Jr., drums utes). Eric Denker, lecturer. May 3 at2:00,May6atl:00(EB) East Building Auditorium Monday-Saturday 11:30* and 1:30 May 22 Jazz Concert and 31 at LOO (WB) (* no 11:30 tour on Wednesdays) These lectures are free and open to "Royal Blue": The Color of a Piero di Cosimo, 1462-1521 Sunday 11:30, 1:30, and 3:30 the public, but seating is limited. Collection Mar 8 Willem de Kooning: Paintings (60 (50 minutes). Gretcheri Hirschauer, East Building Art Information Desk Katia Johansen, textile conservator, Richard Lalli, baritone, minutes). Robin Thorne Ptacek or assistant curator of Italian Ren­ May 10 Copenhagen Gary Chapman, piano Wilford W. Scott, lecturers. May 8, aissance painting. May 4 at noon ""The Imagination of Disaster": Last concert of the Fifty-first Introduction: The American 11, 19, 20 at noon: May 12 at 1:00:; (WB) 1930-1945 Collection May 29 American Music Festival May 15 at 2:00 (EB) May?, 14, 21, 28 at 12:30 May 17 Oil and Water: De Kooning in His May 15 Wrest Building Rotunda Johann Joachim Kaendler, Candelabrum: The Epic Years: After 1945 Studio National Gallery Orchestra, (This tour replaces the usual 12:30 Swan among Rushes, c. 1750, National Richard Shiff. professor of art George Manos, conductor May 24 Introduction to the West Building- Gallerv of Art, Gift of George D. Widener history, Lniversity of Texas at De Kooning and His Heirs: 1950 to Collection) Austin Winslow Homer, Breezing Up (A Fair Wind), 1876, National Gallery of Art, the Present Gift of the W. L. and Mav T. Mellon Foundation National Gallery of Art OPENING EXHIBITIONS

Special Courses Family Guides to the Willeni de Kooning: Paintings History of Western Art: Par III meanings in the Middle Ages and the Collection May 8 through September 5, 1994 Martha Richler \Vise, lecturer Renaissance. Focusing on the collec­ West Building Highlights is a tour East Building. Upper and Mezzanine Levels tions of the National Gallery of Art, The education division concludes the of ten great works in the collection this three-part course will look at survey course on the history of from the Renaissance through the This landmark exhibition honors the richly colored abstract landscapes varied images of the classical gods European art and its background. nineteenth century, with emphasis ninetieth birthday of Willem de represent his development in the and goddesses in European art and The lectures focus on the collections on styles, subjects, and symbols in Kooning, whose contribution to the 1960s and 1970s. De Kooning's ulti­ explore their changing significance. of the National Gallery of Art and \\ estern art. Available at the West art of painting is one of the great mate synthesis of figuration and The lectures will be held on three examine the development of paint­ Building Art Information Desk. achievements of the twentieth abstraction, color and line, painting successive Wednesdays at 10:15 and ing, sculpture, and architecture in Portraits & Personalities explores century. Seventy-six of his finest and drawing are revealed in selec­ repeated the following Saturdays in the nineteenth and twentieth cen­ seven famous works, including works from the late 1930s to the tions from his luminous late works. the East Building Auditorium. This turies. The talks are held in the Jacques-Louis David's Napoleon in mid-1980s have been gathered from The exhibition is organized by the free program is open to the public, East Building Auditorium at 10:15 His Study and two marble busts of institutions and private collections National Gallery of Art in association but seating is limited. on Thursdays. This free program V oltaire by Houdon. Available at the throughout the Lnited States and with the Tate Gallery, London, and is open to the public, but seating- May 4 and ~ \\ esl Building Art Information Desk. Europe. This is the first exhibition The Metropolitan Museum of Art. is limited. The Survival oj the Gods and Shapes & Patterns, of particular devoted exclusively to his paintings. New York, and is accompanied by a II illem de Kooning: Paintings fully illustrated catalogue. The exhi­ May 5 Goddesses interest to younger visitors, focuses \\ illem de Kooning, Two Men St fin fling. on the East Building's art and archi­ begins with the artist s early paint­ bition will travel to The Metropolitan c. 1938, The Metropolitan Museum of An. The Sixties: Pop and May 11 and 14 From the Collection of Thomas B. Hess. tecture. Available at the East ings of men and women, followed by Museum of Art, October 11, 199-t- Performance Art The Choice of Life: Heroic Action, Purchase. Rogers. Louis V. Bell and Building Art Information Desk. a selection of his highly acclaimed January 8. 1995. and the Tate I larris Brisbane Dick Funds and Joseph Physical Pleasure, or Learned May 12 Family Guides are made possible black-and-white and color abstrac­ Gallery. February 16-May 7. 1995. Pulitzer Bequest Contemplation The Seventies and Eighties I: Post- by a grant from the Vira I. Heinz tions from 1946-1950. De Kooning The exhibition is made possible by Modernism and \eo-Lxpressionism May IS and 21 Endowment. startled the art world in 1953 when J.P. Morgan & Co. Incorporated. An Kooning s life and work, is shown he exhibited a group of provocative indemnity for the exhibition has been continuously in the East Building s May 19 Allegories of the Cosmos, Time, paintings of women, several of which granted by the Federal Council on Small Auditorium, beginning daily at The Seventies and Eighties II: and the Individual are included here. Examples from the Arts and the Humanities. noon. The video presentation is History of Photography and the artist s next great series of Willem de Kooning: Painter, a ten- made possible by J. P. Morgan and J idea Art women paintings and a number of minute video program on de Co., Incorporated. Family Programs Themes from Mythology in Shapes from Life: Matisse Cul-Outs is a two-hour program introducing European Art the ""cut-out shapes Matisse created from organic forms. A gallery tour ,1. Russell Sale, lecturer will be followed by an art activity that focuses on the use of shape and Jan van Eyck's The Annunciation The myths of the ancient deities lived Sunday May 15 for families pattern in design. The program is offered on May 22 through September 5, 1994 on even after the fall of the Roman with children ages five to seven, and Sunday May 22 for families with empire. Deeply embedded in histori­ children ages eight to eleven. West Building, Main Floor Gallery 40 cal, scientific, and moral culture, the The program is free, but space is limited: please register after April 29 The newly conserved early Nether­ The Annunciation is shown with stories were repeated and given new by calling (202)789-3030. landish masterpiece The Annun­ two illuminations from Books of ciation (c. 1434/1436) by Jan van Hours: one to show the influence of Eyck is one of the jewels of the French manuscript illumination on Film Programs National Gallery of Art's permanent Van Eyck's iconography and style; collection. A magnificently detailed and another created in the East Building Auditorium Etrangeres. and Cinematheque Sl.ot~\' of Floating Weeds (Yasujiro tour-de-force of Christian symbol­ Bruges/Ghent region after the Royale de Belgique. On Saturday, Ozu, 1934, silent, 89 minutes) and Listening devices for visitors irho are ism, the painting portrays the Annunciation to illustrate the artist s May 21, Mr. Delvaux will be present The Only Son (Yasujiro Ozu, 1936, hearing impaired are available at moment when the angel Gabriel impact. The Annunciation is among to introduce his 1983 film Benvennla. 87 minutes): May 8 at 6:00 the Art Injoi'tnation Desk announces lo the Virgin Mary that twenty-one paintings acquired by The films are subtitled in English. she will be the mother of Jesus. Van Andrew W. Mellon in 1930 from the The films of'Andre Delvaux. Paris, Story of a Cily (Stan Eyck was court painter to Philip the Imperial Hermitage Museum. The Belgium's greatest living director and Tales from the Henna Woods (Odoii Neumann, 1991, 52 minutes); 11-14 at 12:30, May 15 Good, Duke of Burgundy. His ele­ exhibition and accompanying an auleur of literary, intricate, and von Ilorvath, 1979, 93 minutes); May gant renderings of religious subjects brochure have been made possible visually beautiful films, will be fea­ May 1 at 1:00 at 1:00 Jan van Eyck, The Annunciation (detail), were also in great demand among the by The Circle of the National Gallery tured at the National Gallery of Art c. H34 71436, National Gallery of Art, Dragnet Girl (Yasujiro Ozu, 1933, The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Andrew \V. Mellon Collection merchants of Bruges. of Art. on weekends from May 14-May 29. silent, 99 minutes) and What Did the Short (Andre Delvaux, 1966, 94 Delvaux's family from Heverle, Lady Forget? (Yasujiro Ozu, 1937, minutes), Avec Dieric Bouts (Andre near Eouvain, in the Flemish-speak­ 75 minutes): May 1 at 6:00 Delvaux, 1975, 10 minutes), and ing part of the country comprised a 1001 Films (Andre Delvaux, 1989, Proust: A Writer's Life (Sarah From Minimal to Conceptual Art: Works from long line of musicians, and Andre 8 minutes):, May 14 at 2:30 followed suit himself, studying piano Mondale and Sarah Patton, 1992, The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection soir, un train (Andre Delvaux, and composition at the Brussels 60 minutes): May 4-7 at 12:30 lin 1968, 92 minutes) and Eendez-vous May 29 through November 27, 1994 Royal Conservatory. Although he / Was Born, But . . . (Yasujiro Ozu, a Bray (Andre Delvaux, 1971, 90 eventually put his musical studies 1932, silent, 91 minutes) and East Building, Mezzanine Level minutes); May 15 at 6:00 aside, music remained important in Passing Fancy (Yasujiro Ozu, 1933, Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, New his filmrnakiiig. The series is pre­ silent, 101 minutes); May 7 at 2:00 The Inland Sea (Eucille Carra, York City art collectors, have sented with the cooperation of the 1991, 57 minutes): May 18-21 at A Mother Should Be Loved (Yasujiro assembled a vast and impressive Embassy of Belgium, Commissariat 12:30, May 22 at 1:00 ' General aux Relations Internation­ Ozu, 1934, silent, 72 minutes); group of contemporary works of art ales, Ministere des Affaires May 8 at 1:00 Benvenuta (Andre Delvaux, 1983, dating from the 1960s to the present. 105 minutes, with the director in The current exhibition focuses on person): May 21 at 2:30 minimal, post-minimal, and concep­ tual works, areas for which the col­ Belle (Andre Delvaux, 1973, lection is best known. This is the first 93 minutes); May 22 at 6:00 major showing of the Vogel collection A Glimpse of de Kooning (Robert at the National Gallery of Art since it Snyder, 1968, 20 minutes) and was transferred here in 1991. Willem de Kooning and the This exhibition displays, often Unexpected (Erwin Eeiser, 1979, for the first time, many of the finest 50 minutes); May 25-28 at 12:30; works in the Vogel collection, May 29 at 1:00 ' ranging from prints, drawings, arid photographs to paintings and sculp­ . The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, Babel Opera (Andre Delvaux, 1985, ture. Among the forty-nine artists 90 minutes) and Femrne entre chien featured are Richard Artschwager. Joel Shapiro, and Eawrcnce Weiner. An illustrated catalogue accompa­ et loup (Andre Delvaux, 1979, 105 Eyrida Bcnglis, Joseph Beuys, In many cases the Vogels collected nies the exhibition. The exhibition is minutes); May 28 at 2:00 Jonathan Borofsky, John Cage, from these artists at the beginning made possible in part by The Circle L'oeuvre an noir (Andre Delvaux, Christo, Donald Judd, Robert of their careers and have remained of the National Gallery of Art. 1988, 110 minutes); May 29 at 6:00 Mangold, Svlvia Plimack Mangold, loyal patrons. CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS CLOSING EXHIBITIONS

Jasper Francis Cropsey's The Spirit of War and The Spirit of Peace Egon Schiele through ApriJ 16, 1995 through May 8. 1994 West Building, Main Floor Gallery 60 West Building, Ground Floor Central Gallery 8

For the first time in more than a The Spirit of 11'ar is a rugged, Hudson River Valley and the The National Gallery of Art is the he helped found the Neukunstgruppe century, two of the most important stormy mountain landscape with a Catskil! Mountains that dominated opening venue for this retrospective (New Art Group) in Vienna. works by American painter Jasper- heavily fortified castle, knights on Cropsey's oeuvre. Cropsey exhibition of more than seventy The exhibition is supported by Francis Cropsey are exhibited horseback, and a burning village. (1823 -1900) was one of Thomas paintings, watercolors, and drawings Goldman Sachs: Bank Austria; together. The Spirit of War (1851). The Spirit of Peace is a sunny, semi- Cole's ablest followers, and these two by the leading figure of Austrian Creditanstalt: the Austrian Federal acquired by the National Gallery of tropical coastal scene with classical imaginary pictures reveal the impact expressionism and one of the fore­ Ministry for Foreign Affairs: the Art in 1978 through the Avalon architecture, a bustling harbor town, of Cole's powerful allegorical style. most draftsmen of the twentieth cen- Austrian Cultural Institute of New Fund, will be joined by The Spirit oj and men and women walking, danc­ The exhibition brochure is made lury. The exhibition is the first major York: The City of Vienna; the Peace (1851) from the Woodmere ing, and conversing peacefully. Both possible through the generosity of comprehensive Schiele exhibition to International Corporate Circle of Art Museum. Philadelphia. paintings seem worlds away from the Mrs. John C. Ne\\ in°1on. be seen in the United States since the National Gallery of Art; His 1965. Many important works, lent Excellency, Helmut Tuerk, from Schiele"'s native Austria, have Ambassador of Austria to the United never been seen in this country. States of America: and Joan and Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European Graphic Art Egon Schiele (1890-1918) led a David Maxwell. turbulent but extremely productive The exhibition is organized and Egon Scliiele. The Painter Max and Related Objects, 1300-1800 life before his death at twenty-eight circulated by Art Services Inter­ Oppenheimer, 1910. Graphisrhe Sarnrnlung Albertina, Vienna through August 21, 199-1- East Building, Ground Level from influenza. Initially, he followed national, Alexandria, Virginia. the variant of art nouveau that Additional support is provided by The beauty, imagination, and Gustav Klimt developed in tandem the Austrian National Bank, the delightful sometimes outrageous with the Vienna Secession and the Austrian Federal Ministry for on the Arts and the Humanities. The wit of graphic and decorative arts Wiener Werkstatte (Vienna Work­ Foreign Affairs. The City of Vienna, show will travel to the Indianapolis over five centuries are represented in shop). However, his personal search the Austrian Cultural Institute of Museum of Art. June 11-August 7. ninety-two prints, drawings, illus­ for meaning took him in a new direc­ New York. Austrian Airlines, and by 1994, and the San Diego Museum of trated books, and decorative objects tion toward expressionism. In 1909 an indemnity from the Federal Council Art, Auffust 27-October 30. 1994. from the National Gallery of Art's collections. Bringing together works on paper and such three-dimensional objects as ceramics, bronzes, armor, Hans Mending's Saint John the Baptist and and furniture, the exhibition demon­ Saint Veronica strates the close relationship between the graphic and decorative arts. through May 15, 1994 The exhibition is organized West Building, Main Floor Gallery 39 according to the style of ornament depicted grotesques, arabesques, Commemorating the achievements of teenth century. Raphael's Saint calligraphy, and rocaille or the I lans Memling on the 500th anni­ George and the Dragon (c. 1506) kinds of objects the designs were versary of his death, the National from the National Gallery of Art's intended to decorate. Among works Gallery of Art has brought together collection is included in the installa­ on paper are designs for functional his panel paintings Saint Veronica tion to illustrate Memling s influence objects such as Antoine Watteau s (c. 1470/1475) from the Gallery's on Italian painting, particularly exquisite sketch of the decoration for collection and Saint Jo/in the Baptist landscapes. a room, Giovanni Battista Piranesi s (c. 1470/1475) from the Bayerische This exhibition explores the striking illustration for an Egyptian- Staatsgemaldesammlungen, Alte iconography of the two panels and style fireplace, and Albreclit Diirer's Piiiakothek. Munich. Both paintings their relation to private devotion, engraving for a coat of arms. Lavish are believed to have been part of the and it raises issues about the influ­ seventeenth- and eighteenth-century same small altarpiece. It is generally ence of Netherlandish art in Italy. works include a charming depiction agreed that both paintings were in The accompanying brochure has of parade floats by Jacques Callot of the Bembo family in Kvangelisl (detail), iNational Gull the collection been made possible by The Circle of and an etching by Jean Lepautre Venice and Padua in the early six- the National Gallery of Art. of a fountain made for the garden of Versailles, now in the National "K" Gallery of Art's West Garden Court. Giambologna's Cesarini Venus Exhibition Catalogues through May 15, 1994 Egon Schiele A Discerning Eye: West Building, Main Floor Gallery 17 $25.00 (softbound) $45.00 (hardbound) Prints & Drawings Focusing on the development of The exhibition is made possible by The Currency of Fame: Given by Ruth B. the female nude in the oeuvre of Republic National Bank of New Portrait Medals oj the Renaissance Benedict the great European sculptor Giam- York. An indemnity for this exhibi­ $50.00 (softbound) bologna (1529-1608), this exhibi­ tion has ben granted by the Federal $95.00 (hardbound) through June 12, 1994 tion features one of his masterpieces Council on the Arts and the Wcsl B nil ding, Ground Floor in marble, known after its first owner Humanities. Willem de Kooning: Paintings $25.00 (softbound) South Galleries 7, 8, & 9 as the Cesarini Venus. Cleaned and restored in preparation for the exhi­ $55.00 (hardbound) bition, the sculpture is shown with From Minimal to Conceptual Art: Dr. Ruth B. Benedict, a long-time related works in bronze. Since the Works from The Dorothy and friend and donor to the National beginning of the century, the life-size Herbert f'ogel (Collection Gallery of Art, was dedicated to the Cesarini Venus has occupied a niche $25.00 (softbound) appreciation and collecting of prints high above a staircase in the Palazzo and drawings. Organized as a tribute Margherita, now the United States Available from the National Gallery to Dr. Benedict, the exhibition pre­ Embassy in Rome. This is the first of Art s publications service sents 78 of the prints and drawings time that the Cesarini Venus has left Sales Information (202) 842-6466 Theodore Gericault, Adelphi Wharf. 1821, Bequest of Ruth B. Benedict she gave to the Gallery. Italy, courtesy of the Embassy of the Mail Order (202) 322-5900 Reflecting Dr. Benedict s interest United States of America, Rome, in the history of the graphic arts, the U.S. Department of State. Sale Goltzius and other color lithographs and aquatints by exhibition is arranged chronological­ ings by Hendrik Giambologna, born Jean Boulogne Books, posters, notecards, mannerist artists; designs for the Edouard Vuillard, Jacques Villon, ly with works dating from the mid- in Douai, France, was one of the and other merchandise, theater by Jacques Callot and and Uenri-Cabriel Ibels: and one of sixteenth to the mid-twentieth most influential sculptors of his time. Giambolomia. / enn.i l~)rvin