National Gallery of Art CALENDAR OF EVENTS June 1987 June 2-June 7 June 9-June 14 June 16-June 21 June 23-June 28

Brief gallery talks by Education Petrus Christus Edgar Degas Claude Monet Simone Martini Department lecturers on a single work of Portrait of a Woman Viewed from Behind Waterloo Bridge, The Angel of the art. Reproductions of the work discussed Female Donor (Collection of Mr. and Gray Day Annunciation may be purchased in the Gallery's sales (Samuel H. Kress Collection) Mrs. Paul Mellon) (Chester Dale Collection) (Samuel H. Kress Collection) shops; a written text is available without West Building West Building West Building West Building charge. Gallery 39 Gallery 84 Gallery 86 Gallery 3 Tuesday through Saturday 12:00p.m. Sunday 2:00 p.m.

June 1-June 5 June 8-June 12 June 15-June 20 June 22-June 26

Fifty-minute tours by Education Jackson Pollock The Nude in Art American Drawings and The Printed Word in Art Department lecturers on related works and His Age West Building Watercolors of the West Building of art. East Building Rotunda Twentieth Century: Rotunda Monday through Friday 11:00 a.m. Ground Floor Lobby Andrew Wyeth The Helga Pictures Note special lecture Monday, June 15, East Building Auditorium through Saturday, June 20 (This lecture will be given Monday through Saturday)

June 2-June 7 June 9-June 14 June 16-June 21 June 23-June 28

One-hour thematic tours by Education Femmes Fatales: Evil Italian Master Drawings Costume in Art Nineteenth-Century Department lecturers. and Fascinating Women from the British Royal West Building Sculpture in the Andrew Wyeth, The Prussian, 1973 Tuesday through Saturday 1:00p.m. in Western Art Collection Rotunda National Gallery of Art © 1987 Leonard E. B. Andrews West Building West Building Sunday 2:30 p.m. East Building Rotunda Ground Floor Lobby Rotunda

June 3-June 7 June 10-June 14 June 17-June 21 June 24-June 28 Free films on art and feature films related Twentieth-Century James Rosenquist Robert Rauschenberg: Francis Bacon and the to special exhibitions. Unreserved seats are American Art: Highlights (Erwin Leiser; 1986, 30 min.) Retrospective Brutality of Fact available on a first-come, first-served basis. of the Whitney Collection Wed. through Sat. 12:30 (Michael Blackwood, 1979, (Michael Blackwood, East Building Auditorium (26rnin.) Sun. 1:00 45 min.) and Jasper Johns: 1985, 58 min.) Wed. through Sat. 12:30 Decoy (Michael Blackwood, Wed. through Sat. 12:30 Sun. 1:00 Bed and Sofa (Abram Room, 1973, 18 min.) Sun. 1:00 1926, 85 min.), Salt for Wed. through Sat. 12:30 Man with a Movie Camera Svanetia (Mikhail Kalatozov, Sun. 1:00 (Dziga Vertov; 1929, 80 min. 1930, 54 min.), and Charles Burchfield, and Paris qui doit (Rene Land without Bread Noontide in Late May, 1917 Clair, 1923, 62 min.) (Luis Bunuel, 1933, 27 min.) Collection of Whitney Museum of Sat. 2:00 Sat. 2:00 American Art, Purchase

June 7 June 14 June 21 June 28

Free lectures given by distinguished Before Impressionism: The Venetian Way of Death: Andrew Wyeth A Century of Modem scholars. No reservations needed but Landscape Painting in Tombs and Memorials in The Helga Pictures Sculpture: Masterpieces of seating is limited. France 1800 to 1863 Renaissance Venice Constructivism and Sunday 4:00 p.m. John Wilmerding Surrealism in the Patsy and East Building Auditorium Jeremy Strick Bruce Boucher Deputy Director Raymond Nasher Collection Assistant Curator of Lecturer National Gallery of Art Twentieth-Century Art Department of History of Art Nan Rosenthal National Gallery of Art University College London Curator of Twentieth-Century Art National Gallery of Art

June 7 June 14 June 21 June 28

Free concerts by the National Gallery Short Piano Series IX Short Piano Series IX Short Piano Series IX National Gallery Orchestra Orchestra, recitalists, and ensembles. George Manos, Conductor Unreserved seats available from 6:00 p.m. Darrin Blumfield, Pianist Thomas Hecht, Pianist Alan Di Cenzo, Pianist All concerts are broadcast live by WGMS Works by Stravinsky, Bizet, 570 AM and 103.5 FM. Works by Busoni, Works by Soler, Scriabin, Works by Scarlatti, and Wagner Sunday 7:00p.m. Mendelssohn, and Brahms, Albeniz, Hecht, Prokofiev, Chopin, West Building, East Garden Court Rachmaninoff and Liszt and Beethoven (Final concert of the season) BITIONS

Summer Hours Summer Discussion Group A Century of Modern and Watercolors of the 20th Century Sculpture: The Patsy and The National Gallery of Art's East and West Beginning July 14, the Education Department The National Gallery of Art is holding an Passes may also be obtained at all Buildings will remain open fromio:oo a.m. will be offering a four-week, evening course Raymond Nasher Collection exhibition of twentieth-century American Ticketron outlets nationwide, or ordered by to9:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday and titled "The Language of Art." Look for details June 28, 198 7-January 3; 1988 graphic art in two parts. Both parts have calling Teletron at 1-800-233-4050. There on Sunday, 12:00 noon to9:00 p.m. These in next month's Calendar of Events. East Building, Mezzanine, been made possible by The Du Pont will be a Ticketron charge for passes ordered extended summer hours will remain in effect Company. through outlets ($1.35) or by telephone through Labor Day. Ground Floor, and Concourse Pass System. Computer-generated ($2.00, credit card only). Reservations will be A selected overview of modern sculpture, advance passes will be available for restricted to six passes per person. Advance this exhibition features more than sixty American Drawings and Watercolors of the passes are not available by phone or by mail Evening Seminars works from one of the finest collections of 20th Century: Andrew Wyeth - The Helga from the National Gallery. in American Studies Family Programs modern sculpture in the world. Highlighting Pictures. Passes are available on a first-come, There will be no public tours through concentrations of work by diverse modern first-served basis on the day of the visit at the either part of the exhibition or special This summer the Education Department is The Education Department is repeating a masters of the figurative and constructivist special Pass Desk located at the Rotunda on arrangements for groups. offering a six-week American Studies semi­ special summer program for young people traditions, the sculptures will be installed the Main Floor of the West Building. Recorded Information. Current nar. One section will meet on Tuesdays, ages 11-13. "Art Odyssey" will meet July 13-17 throughout the public spaces of the East Advance reservations can be made at the information on American Drawings and June 23 to July 28 at 6:00 p.m., and the other and again July 27-31, Monday-Friday from Building. Included will be important special Pass Desk. Passes acquired in person Watercolors of the Twentieth Century is on Thursdays, June 25 to July 30, also at 6:00 10:30 a.m. to2:00 p.m. During this week- examples of sculpture by Jean Arp, at the National Gallery are free of charge. available by calling (202) 842-3472. p.m. In addition to serving as a general intro­ long event, treasure hunts, perception Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder, Pablo Picasso, Head of a Woman, 1931-1932 (cast 1973) duction to American art, these free ninety- games, and other gallery activities will help Duchamp-Villon, Max Ernst, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond D. Nasher Raymond Photo by Lee Clockman minute discussion groups will explore the participants develop skills for understanding Alberto Giacometti, Barbara Hepworth, Andrew Wyeth relationship between the visual arts and and enjoying works of art. Young people will Henri Matisse, Joan Miro, Henry Moore, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenburg, George The Helga Pictures other cultural activities. Enrollment is also get a behind-the-scenes view of how the Pablo Picasso, and Auguste Rodin. In Segal, Richard Serra, and six sculptures by Through September 27, 1987 limited and will be accepted on a first-come, museum operates. "Art Odyssey" is limited addition, there will be a group of post-war David Smith. West Building, Ground Floor first-served basis. To register for either sec­ to 30 on a first-come, first-served basis. For objects, including works by Jonathan This exhibition is supported by Northern tion or for additional information, write to: free registration and additional information Borofsky, Anthony Caro, Jean Dubuffet, Telecom Inc. A selection of pencil drawings and water- American Studies Seminar / Department of write before June 19 to: "Art Odyssey" / colors supplemented with a few finished Education / National Gallery of Art / Education Department / National Gallery of temperas, this exhibition offers a look at the James Rosenquist, Fahrenheit 1982 Degrees, 1982 Washington, D.C. 20565. Please enclose Art / Washington, D.C. 20565. Please enclose CONTINUING F Collection of Whitney Museum of American Art, tradition of realism in American art. Andrew a self-addressed and stamped business a stamped, self-addressed envelope for Purchase, with funds from the John I. H. Baur Wyeth The Helga Pictures consists of envelope. confirmation of your reservation. Purchase Fund, the Mr. and Mrs. M. Anthony Fisher approximately 140 works depicting the Master Drawings from Purchase Fund, and The Lauder Foundation Drawing artist's neighbor, Helga Testorf, in Chadds Fund The Armand Hammer Collection Ford, Pennsylvania. By concentrating on his Matisse Film treatment of a single subject, this suite West Building, Ground Floor Selections from the Whitney (executed between 1971 and 1985) provides an Matisse in Nice, a film produced in con­ opportunity to examine thoroughly Wyeth's One of the finest collections of drawings Museum of American Art junction with the National Gallery's recent process of concentration and revision over a in American private hands is on view in Through September 7, 1987 exhibition, will be rebroadcast in the greater fifteen-year period. the graphics galleries in the West Building. West Building, Ground Floor Washington area on WETA Channel 26 on The exhibition includes groups of about The selection includes sheets by Albrecht Friday, June 19, at 10:30 p.m. For national These drawings from the Whitney Museum 30 different interrelated poses. Helga is Diirer, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, broadcast, check local PBS listings. The film in New York trace American draftsmanship shown standing and walking, as in the series Correggio, Rembrandt, Watteau, and was coproduced by the National Gallery of from the beginning of the twentieth century In the Orchard, as well as nude and clothed, Fragonard, as well as a rare sketchbook by Art and Malone Gill Productions and funded to the present. Examining major schools of posed against architectural elements, asleep Gauguin. The collection has been formed by the GTE Corporation. American art such as regionalism, early and awake at different seasons and times of by Dr. Armand Hammer of Los Angeles. abstraction, and figurative modes from the day. The entire Helga suite was acquired by Henri Matisse, Still Life: On view for the first time in the United traditional to the surreal, the exhibition Leonard E. B. Andrews in 1986. Apples on Pink Tablecloth, c. 1922 States is Raphael's large-scale preparatory National Gallery of Art, Chester Dale Collection focuses on the imaginative diversity and drawing, or "cartoon," for the painting La innovation of twentieth-century drawings in Belle Jardiniere in the Louvre. Pricked for TAT T^TCYST AV the United States. transfer to a panel, it is the only full-scale Highlighting a wide range of both subject cartoon by any Renaissance artist in the matter and medium, the exhibition includes United States. It has been acquired by the works in graphite, watercolor, pastel, Donatello at Close Range Lectures on Western Art National Gallery of Art through the gener­ gouache, and collage. Featured are drawings Raphael, The Madonna and Child with Saint John osity of The Armand Hammer Foundation, West Building Lecture Hall East Building Auditorium the Baptist (cartoon for La Belle Jardiniere], c. 1507 by such twentieth-century masters as and is on display in a gallery reminiscent of a Ground Floor Concourse National Gallery of Art, Purchased with Funds Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, Milton from The Armand Hammer Foundation Renaissance chapel, newly constructed to Avery, Willem de Kooning, and Jasper Johns. A recent campaign to clean the works by This month concludes the eight-week series house it and other selections from The Donatello, the greatest fifteenth-century of free public lectures surveying Western art Italian Master Drawings from Hammer Collection on a rotating basis. Florentine sculptor, in the Old Sacristy of from the dawning of the baroque era through the Medicean church of San Lorenzo, contemporary developments. These lectures the British Royal Collection Andrew Wyeth, Peasant Dress, 1972 Leonard E. B. Andrews Florence, has remarkably recovered the will be given on Tuesdays at 12:30 p.m. and Through July 26, 1987 of the original sculpted repeated on Saturdays atn:oo a.m. No reser­ power and brilliance East Building, Ground Floor images. This exhibit documents the cleaning vations are required, but space is limited. SPECIAL process in color transparencies, some of June 2, 6 Twentieth-Century Art This is the first survey exhibition of the them life-size. It has been supported by the through 1940 greatest Italian drawings in the British Royal Samuel H. Kress Foundation. Collection ever to travel from England. New York Interpreted: Joseph Stella, Alfred Stieglitz June 9, 13 Modern Art from 1940 Ranging from the Renaissance through the to the Present Through August 16, 1987, East Building, Mezzanine baroque period, more than 60 drawings are on view, including seven works by Leonardo, A collection of New York-inspired paintings rapher, critic, and founder of the influential INTRODUCTORY TOURS four by Michelangelo, and three by Raphael. by Joseph Stella and photographs by Alfred galleries "291" and An American Place, are Other extraordinary early drawings by Stieglitz are now on view in a special also included in this installation of work Giovanni Bellini and Domenico Ghirlandaio installation on the mezzanine of the East depicting scenes of New York in the early Introduction to the Foreign Language Tours are included, along with mannerist drawings Building. Stella, a pioneer of American 20 th century. Stieglitz' photographs of New by Parmigianino and Tintoretto. Baroque modernism in the early twentieth century, York City are characterized by clear, crisply East Building Collections Regularly scheduled foreign language tours works by Bernini and Guercino are also on often depicted the American urban and lit compositions often organized around of the West Building are offered on Tuesdays Monday through Saturday 11:00 a.m. view. The survey, which is intended to show industrial landscape in a style of bold relationships of geometric shapes. Among at noon beginning in the Rotunda. The June Sunday 1:00 p.m. the finest and most beautiful Italian patterning intended to convey the dynamic the works on view is The Flat Iron (1902). East Building, Ground Floor Lobby schedule is as follows: drawings in the British Royal Collection, growth of the modern city. Included in this The Flat Iron Building is also seen in the June 2 French the central panel of Stella's The Voice of the City Introduction to the concludes with four drawings by Piazzetta exhibition is his most ambitious project, June 9 Spanish and five by Canaletto. Pan American World five-paneled The Voice of the City of New of New York Interpreted. The photographs West Building Collections June 16 German Airways has been designated the official York Interpreted (1902-1922). The Joseph included in the installation are from the June 23 Italian carrier of this exhibition, which is supported Stella paintings are being lent by the Newark National Gallery's Alfred Stieglitz Collection Monday through Saturday 3:00 p.m. Leonardo Da Vinci, Five Grotesque Heads Sunday 5:00 p.m. by an indemnity from the Federal Council on Windsor Castle, Royal Library Museum. given by Georgia O'Keeffe and the Alfred West Building, Rotunda the Arts and the Humanities. © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, photog­ Stieglitz Estate. GENERAL INFORMATION NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART Washington, D.C. 20565 The telephone number for general information is 202-737-4215. To change your mailing address for the Calendar of Events, please mail a copy of your new address to the Information Office, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 20565, taking care to include the mailing label from your last Calendar of Events. GALLERY SUMMER HOURS: Monday through Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Sunday noon to 9:00 p.m. The Gallery is located between 3rd and 7th Streets, N.W., on Constitution Avenue. The East and West Buildings are connected by an all-weather underground passage with a moving walkway. Entrances to the West Building are on the Mall, on 7th Street, on Constitution Avenue at 6th Street, which has a ramp for the handi­ capped, and off 4th Street. The entrance to the East Building is on 4th Street off National Gallery Plaza and also has a ramp for the handicapped. RESTAURANTS Four restaurants offer luncheon and light snacks throughout the year. Monday through Saturday, hours of operation are: Terrace Cafe: 11:00 to 4:30 Cafe/Buffet: 10:00 to 6:00 Cascade Cafe: 11:30 to 2:30 Garden Cafe: 11:00 to 6:00 Sunday hours are noon to 6:00 p.m. for the Terrace Cafe, CafeYBuffet, and Garden Cafe; noon to 3:30 p.m. for the Cascade Cafe.

COVER: Henri Matisse, Large Seated Nude, c. 1923-1925 Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond D. Nasher Photo by Lee Clockman