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Calendar of Events July 1984

Paintings Introductory Films Sunday Sunday of the Week Tours Lectures Concerts MONDAY, June 25 Introduction to the West Art City: Collections The Orientalists: National Gallery Orchestra through Prairie Building Collections and Collectors of Delacroix to Matisse Richard Bales, Conductor SUNDAY, (Collection of Lois and Mon. through Sat. 11:00 Los Angeles (60 min.) The Allure of North Americana Inly 1 Georges de Menil) & 3:00; Sun. 1:00 & 5:00 Tues. through Sat. 12:30 Africa and the West Building & 6:00; Sun. 1:00 Near East West Building Tues. through Sat. 12:00 Rotunda East Garden Court 7:00 & 2:00; Sun. 3:30 & 6:00 The Quiet Collector: Speaker: Introduction to the East Andrew W. Mellon Mary Anne Stevens This program concludes East Building Building Collections Remembered (30 min.) of the the Gallery's concerts for Mezzanine Level Mon. through Sat. 1:00 Tues. through Fri. 2:00 Exhibition the season. They will Sun. 2:30 Royal Academy of Arts resume on October 7. East Building America's Pop Collector Ground Floor Lobby (72 min.) Sat. 2:30 Sunday 4:00

East Building East Building Auditorium Auditorium

MONDAY, July 2 Paul Gauguin Introduction to the West The New York School The Place of the Visual through , Breton Girls Dancing, Building Collections (55 min.) Arts in Italian SUNDAY, Pont Aven Mon. through Sat. 11:00 Tues. through Fri. 12:30 Renaissance Palaces (Collection of Mr. and & 3:00; Sun. 1:00 & 5:00 & 6:00; Sat. 12:30; Mrs. Paul Mellon) West Building Sun. 1:00 Speaker: Rotunda The Quiet Collector: John Kent Lydecker Tues., Thurs. through Sat. Andrew W Mellon Curator in Charge of Tours 12:00 & 2:00; Sun. 3:30 Introduction to the East Remembered (30 min.) National Gallery of Art &6:00 Building Collections Tues. through Thurs. 2:00 Mon. through Sat. 1:00 Sunday 4:00 West Building Sun. 2:30 Lawrence of Arabia Gallery 72 East Building (directed by David Lean, East Building Ground Floor Lobby 1962, 205 min. with Auditorium intermission) Fri. 2:00; Sat. 2:30 East Building Auditorium

MONDAY, Claude Monet Introduction to the West Franz Kline Remembered West of Eden: American July 9 Rouen Cathedral, Building Collections (29 min.) and In Search of through West Facade Mon. through Sat. 11:00 ofRothko (22 min.) the 19th Century SUNDAY, (Chester Dale Collection) & 3:00; Sun. 1:00 & 5:00 Tues. through Sat. 12:30 July 15 West Building & 6:00; Sun. 1:00 Speaker: Tues. through Sat. 12:00 Rotunda Donna Mann & 2:00; Sun. 3:30 & 6:00 The Quiet Collector: Staff Lecturer Introduction to the East Andrew W. Mellon National Gallery of Art West Building Building Collections Remembered (30 min.) Gallery 86 Mon. through Sat. 1:00 Tues. through Fri. 2:00 Sunday 4:00 Sun. 2:30 fhe Thief of Bagdad East Building (with Douglas Fairbanks, East Building Ground Floor Lobby 1924, 140 min.) Auditorium Sat. 2:30 East Building Auditorium

July 16 Sandro Botticelli Introduction to the West Jackson Pollock: A Generation in Revolt: through The Adoration of the Magi Building Collections Portrait (54 min.) North German (Andrew W. Mellon Mon. through Sat. 11:00 Tues. through Sat. 12:30 Expressionism, 1905-1914 SUNDAY, Collection) & 3:00; Sun. 1:00 & 5:00 & 6:00; Sun. 1:00 July 22 West Building The Quiet Collector: Speaker: Tues. through Sat. 12:00 Rotunda Andrew W. Mellon Christopher With & 2:00; Sun. 3:30 & 6:00 Remembered (30 min.) Staff Lecturer Introduction to the East Tues. through Fri. 2:00 National Gallery of Art West Building Building Collections Gallery 7 Mon. through Sat. 1:00 Son of the Sheik Sunday 4:00 Sun. 2:30 (with Rudolph Valentine, East Building 1926, 68 min.) East Building Ground Floor Lobby Sat. 2:30 Auditorium East Building Auditorium

July 23 Alessandro Algardi Introduction to the West News from Nowhere (life Getting Away from It All: through Saint Matthias Building Collections and work of William Escapism in the SUNDAY, (Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund) Mon. through Sat. 11:00 Morris, 53 min.) Visual Arts July 29 & 3:00; Sun. 1:00 & 5:00 Tues. through Sat. 12:30 Tues. through Sat. 12:00 West Building & 6:00; Sun. 1:00 Speaker: & 2:00; Sun. 3:30 & 6:00 Rotunda Gwendolyn Everett The Quiet Collector: Staff Lecturer West Building Introduction to the East Andrew W. Mellon National Gallery of Art Ground Floor North 11 Building Collections Remembered (30 min.) Mon. through Sat. 1:00 Tues. through Fri. 2:00 Sunday 4:00 Sun. 2:30 East Building Beau Geste (with Ronald East Building Ground Floor Lobby Colman, 1926, 109 min.) Auditorium Sat. 2:30 ,

East Building Auditorium National Gallery of Art Summer Hours Monday through Saturday the Gallery will be Summer Course Offered Washington, D.C. 20565 open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday hours Starting July 10, the Education Department remain the same throughout the year: 12 noon is offering without charge a three-week course to 9p.m. The Gallery is located between 3rd and 7th entitled The Language of Art. The informal Streets, N.W., on Constitution Avenue. The Cafeteria 10 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Mon.-Sat. gallery discussions will examine the specific East and West Buildings are connected by an 12 noon-6 p.m. Sunday elements of the artists' language of design, all-weather underground passage with a Cascade 11 a.m.-4p.m. Mon.-Sat. such as color, line, composition, texture, and moving walkway. Entrances to the West Cafe 12 noon-5 p.m. Sunday shape. Meeting at 6 p.m. on consecutive Building are on the Mall, on 7th Street, on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, or Thursdays, each Terrace 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Sat. Constitution Avenue at 6th Street, which has series of discussions will be limited to twenty Cafe 12 noon-6 p.m. Sunday a ramp for the handicapped, and off 4th visitors. Call 842-6246 during business hours Street. The entrance to the East Building is Garden 11 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Mon.-Sat. to register. on 4th Street off National Gallery Plaza and Cafe 12 noon-6 p.m. Sunday also has a ramp for the handicapped.

The telephone number for general information Free tours on any subject appropriate to the Tours in foreign languages, including French, is (202) 737-4215. Gallery's collections or exhibitions may be German, Italian, and Spanish, are available arranged for groups of fifteen or more people upon request. Please call the Education Exhibitions July 1984 by booking at least two weeks in advance. Department, (202) 842-6249, for an appoint­ Call (202) 842-6246. ment at least two weeks in advance. Upening 1 his iVlonUi

RENOIR. Odalisque National Gallery of Art, Chester Dale Collection 1962

The Orientalists: Delacroix to Matisse The Allure of North Africa and the Near East July 1-October 28, 1984 . J. F. Lewis, Frederic Church, Sanford Gifford, May 20, 1984. Coordinators for the National Upper Level Renoir, and Matisse. Gallery are D. Dodge Thompson, chief of East Building exhibition programs, and Coman, Highlights include Delacroix's heroic Sultan assistant curator of French painting. The Between 1798, when the French army under * of Morocco and Lion Hunt; scenes of Arab life Napoleon occupied Egypt, and 1914, the and landscapes by Gerome, the greatest accompanying catalogue contains essays by Ms. Stevens and other noted scholars. onset of World War I, numerous European Orientalist of the second half of the nine­ and American artists traveled to the Near teenth century; a landscape triptych of A lecture on the exhibition will be presented East. This exhibition chronicles these artists' Morocco by Matisse, reassembled for the on Sunday, July 1. See reverse side for details. fascination with this area, known as the exhibition, together with two famous oda­ A Saturday film series that includes such "Orient" in Europe. lisques, Blue Nude and Odalisque in Red silent classics as The Thief of Bagdad and Works on view range from Baron Gros' cele­ Trousers; and numerous other examples of Son of the Sheik begins on July 7. brations of the French army's exploits, such artists' complex and individual responses to as The Battle ofAbouhir, to Kandinsky's early this exotic and unfamiliar world. twentieth-century explorations of the brilliant Guest curator of the exhibition is Mary Anne color and abstract geometry of the Islamic Stevens of the Royal Academy of Arts in world. Other artists represented include London, where another version of the Delacroix, Ingres, Gerome, , exhibition was on view from March 24- Continuing Exhibitions

Watteau: 1684-1721 Through September 23, 1984 Ground Floor Galleries West Building This is the first exhibition solely devoted to the paintings and drawings of Jean-Antoine Watteau, considered to be one of the greatest French artists of all time. Forty-one paintings and ninety-five drawings are on view, in­ cluding, for the first time in the United States, three of Watteau's most important works Gilles, The Embarkation for Cythera, and Gersaint 's Shopsign. After its premiere at the National Gallery, Watteau: 1684-1721 will travel to the Grand WATTEAU. The Italian Comedians Palais, Paris, and the Charlottenburg Palace, National Gallery of Art, Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany. Samuel H. Kress Collection 1946

The Folding Image: Screens by Western Artists of the 19th and 20th Centuries Through September 3, 1984 Concourse Level East Building Mark Rothko: Works on Paper Through August 5, 1984 Upper Level and Mezzanine East Building

Closing Exhibition

Early German Drawings from a Private Collection

Through July 8, 1984 THOMAS DEWING. Morning Glories ROTHKO. Unfilled Ground Floor Galleries Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc. West Building