National Gallery of Art CALENDAR OF EVENTS November 1987 NOVEMBER Monday, October 26 Monday, November 2 Monday, November 9 Monday, November 16 Monday, November 23 through through through through through Sunday, November 1 Sunday, November 8 Sunday, November 15 Sunday, November 22 Sunday, November 29
COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS October 27-November 1 November 3-November 8 November 10-November 15 November 17-November 22 November 23-November 29 gallery talks given by Education Brief Guercino Rosso Fiorentino David Smith Alfred Sisley Andy Warhol Department lecturers on a single work of Amnon and Tamar Portrait of a Man House in a Landscape Flood at Port-Marly 32 Soup Cans art. Reproductions of the work discussed (Patrons' Permanent Fund) (Samuel H. Kress Collection) (Patsy and Raymond (Collection of Mr. (Irving Blum; may be purchased in the Gallery's sales West Building West Building Nasher Collection) and Mrs. Paul Mellon) New York, N.Y.) shops; a written text is available without Gallery 30 Gallery 10 East Building West Building East Building charge. Ground Floor Lobby Gallery 72 Mezzanine Level Tuesday through Saturday 12:00p.m. Sunday 2:00 p.m. (There will be no talk on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26)
SPECIAL TOURS October 26-October 30 November 2-November 6 November 9-November 13 November 16-November 20 November 23-November 29 Fifty-minute tours given by Education William Merritt Chase: Scenes of Mythology Scenes of Religion Portraiture in the Landscape Paintings in the Department lecturers on related works Summers at Shinnecock in the Visual Arts in the Visual Arts National Gallery of Art's National Gallery of Art's of art. 1891-1902 West Building, Rotunda West Building, Rotunda Collections Collections Monday through Friday 11:00 a.m. East Building West Building, Rotunda West Building, Rotunda Ground Floor Lobby
October 27-November 1 November 3-November 8 November 10-November 15 November 17-November 22 November 24-November 29
One-hour thematic tours given by Conspicuous Consumption: Berthe Morisot Friends of Berthe Morisot: A Century of Modem An American Sampler: Education Department lecturers. Representations of Food Impressionist Manet and Renoir Sculpture: The Patsy and Folk Art from the Tuesday through Saturday 1:00p.m. in Art West Building, Rotunda West Building, Rotunda Raymond Nasher Collection Shelbume Museum East Building Sunday 2:30 p.m. West Building, Rotunda East Building (There will be no tours on Ground Floor Lobby Ground Floor Lobby Veteran's Day, November 11) (There will be no tours on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26)
FILMS October 27-November 1 November 3-November 8 November 10-November 15 November 17-November 22 November 24-November 29 Free films on art and feature films related Henry Moore at Eighty Masters of Modem Masters of Modem Masters of Modem Georgia O'Keeffe (Perry to special exhibitions. Unreserved seats are (BBC, 1978, 57min.) Sculpture, part one (Michael Sculpture, part two (Michael Sculpture, part three Miller Adato, 1977, 60 min.) available 30 minutes before show time on a Wed. andThurs. 12:30 Blackwood, 1978, 58 min.) Blackwood, 1978, 58 min.) (Michael Blackwood, 1978, Wed. and Fri. 12:30 first-come, first-served basis. Sun. 1:00 Wed. through Sat. 12:30 Wed. through Fri. 12:30 58 min.) Sun. 1:00 East Building Auditorium Sun. 1:00 Sun. 1:00 Wed. through Fri. 12:30 William Merritt Chase Sun. 1:00 William Merritt Chase at Shinnecock (National William Merritt Chase William Merritt Chase at Shinnecock (National Gallery of Art, 1987, 27 min. at Shinnecock (National at Shinnecock (National William Merritt Chase Gallery of Art, 1987, 27 min. Tues. through Thurs. 2:00 Gallery of Art, 1987, 27 min.) Gallery of Art, 1987, 27 min.) at Shinnecock (National Tues., Wed., Fri. 2:00 Tues. through Fri. 2:00 Tues. through Fri. 2:00 Gallery of Art, 1987, 27 min. Sat. 12:30 Edvard Munch (Peter Sat. 12:30 Tues. through Fri. 2:00 Watkins, 1976,167mm.) Dante's Inferno (Ken Sat 12:30 Andrei Rublev (Andrei Sun. 6:00 Russell, 1968,90mm.) The Steamroller and the Tarkovsky, 1965, 185 min.) Sat. 2:30 Violin (Andrei Tarkovsky, Solaris (Andrei Sat. 1:30; Sun. 6:00 1960, 47 min.) and My Name Tarkovsky, 1972, 132 min.) William Merritt Chase; Gathering Autumn Pirosmani (Georgi Is Ivan (Andrei Tarkovsky, Sat. 2:00; Sun. 6:00 Flowers, 1894 or 1895 From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Shengelaya, 1971, 95 min.) 1962, 84 min.) Upperville, Virginia Sun. 6:00 Sat. 2:00
SUNDAY LECTURES November 1 November 8 November 15 November 22 November 29 Free lectures given by distinguished visiting Imago Dei: The Byzantine Imago Dei: The Byzantine Imago Dei: The Byzantine Imago Dei: The Byzantine Slouching toward scholars. No reservations needed, but Apologia for the Icons Apologia for the Icons Apologia for the Icons Apologia for the Icons Abstraction: Folk Art seating is limited. and Modernism Sunday 4:00 p.m. New Being: Aesthetics The Senses Sanctified: Humanity Made Divine: The Great Chain of Images: East Building Auditorium and the Incarnation Rehabilitation of the Visual Mary the Mother of God A Cosmology of Icons David Curry Curator of American Art Jaroslav Pelikan Jaroslav Pelikan Jaroslav Pelikan Jaroslav Pelikan The Denver Art Museum A. W. Mellon Lecturer A. W. Mellon Lecturer A. W. Mellon Lecturer A. W. Mellon Lecturer Colorado in the Fine Arts in the Fine Arts in the Fine Arts in the Fine Arts
November 1 November 8 November 15 November 22 November 29
Free concerts by the National Gallery National Gallery Orchestra Dr. Roy H. Johnson, Lila Deis, Soprano George Marsh, Violinist Marjorie Lee, Pianist Orchestra, recitalists, and ensembles. George Manos, Conductor Pianist Douglas Riva, Pianist Margaret Otwell, Pianist Unreserved seats available from 6:00 p.m. Works by Mozart, All concerts are broadcast live by WGMS Works by Monteverdi, Bach, All Liszt program Works by Joaquin Nin, Ives, Works by Mozart, Copland, Schumann, Prokofiev, 570 AM and 103.5 FM. von Weber Rossini, Richard Strauss Dvorak, Kreisler Bach-Busoni Sunday 7:00p.m. West Building, West Garden Court National Gallery of Art OPENING EXHIBITIONS CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS
Mellon Lecture Series Art History Course: Masters of An American Sampler: Folk Art A Century of Modern Rosso Fiorentino Drawings, The Andrew W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Twentieth-Century Sculpture from the Shelburne Museum Sculpture: The Patsy and Prints, and Decorative Arts Arts conclude in November. The talks will This month concludes the Education Raymond Nasher Collection be presented November 15, 1987-April 14,1988 Through January 3, ic by Jaroslav Pelikan, Sterling Department's modern sculpture course Professor in the East Building, Upper Level Through January West Building, Central Gallery Department of History, Yale offered in conjunction with the exhibition A 3, 1988 University. The title of the series is Imago Century of Modem Sculpture: The Patsy and The Shelburne Museum in Vermont holds East Building, Mezzanine, Internationally known during his lifetime, Dei: The Byzantine Apologia foi the Icons. Raymond Nasher Collection. Focusing on a a large and diverse collection of works from Ground Floor, and Concourse Rosso Fiorentino is today regarded as one of Please see the reverse side for more specific representative sample America's artistic and cultural heritage, yet the finest and most of twentieth-century A select overview of modern sculpture, this individualistic Italian information. sculptors, the many of them have not been exhibited artists of slide lectures survey their exhibition features over seventy works from the sixteenth century. Rosso was works, examine their widely and remain unknown to the active in Florence innovative approaches, one of the finest private collections of and Rome before being and relate these American public. Among the 121 objects called to France Impressionism: A Closer Look masters to their historical Georgia O'Keeffe, Ranches Church, c. 1930 modern sculpture in the world. The in 1530 to become the age. The talks are held in The Phillips Collection, Washington included in the exhibition will be quilts and principal painter the East Building exhibition includes concentrations of to King Francis I. His Auditorium on Tuesdays coverlets, hooked rugs, weather vanes and sophisticated style The Education Department is sponsoring at 12:30 p.m. and sculpture by diverse modern masters of the had great impact in repeated on Saturdays whirligigs, decoys, carousel animals, trade France, bringing individual, two-hour sessions focusing on atn:oo a.m. No Georgia O'Keeffe 1887-1986 figurative and constructivist traditions as the art of the Italian advance reservations signs, and carved figures. The selection has Renaissance French impressionism. The classes, are necessary, but well as a selection of minimal, pop, and to Paris and Fontainebleau. seating is limited. November i, 1987-February 21, i been overseen by John Wilmerding, deputy Twenty-eight scheduled from 12:00 noon to 2:00 p.m., postmodernist objects. The sculpture is of his finest surviving drawings East Building director of the National Gallery of Art and and eighty consist of two parts. The first hour will be an November 3, 7 Alberto Giacometti and installed at the entrance to the East Building, prints after his compositions Mezzanine and Upper Level noted American art scholar. Organized to convey the introductory slide lecture on impressionism, the Inner Landscape of on three levels of the East Building, and in beauty and power of Rosso's coincide with the Shelburne Museum's imagery. while the second hour will be devoted to the Mind This centennial exhibition of works by the north sculpture court. There are Because his designs were widely fortieth anniversary, the exhibition will influential in decorative group discussions about individual works of November 10, 14 Constantin Brancusi and Georgia O'Keeffe will celebrate the artistic important examples of work by Jean Arp, arts, the exhibition travel after Washington to the Amon Carter will include majolica art in the galleries. Participants will discuss the "New Classicism " achievement of a major American artist. The Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder, and Limoges enamels Museum (May 7-September 4, 1988), the as well as two important works by artists such as Manet, Monet, November 17, 21 David Smith and exhibition will comprise around 115 oil Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Max Ernst, tapestries that were Denver Art Museum (October 15, 1988- executed from his Renoir, Degas, and Cassatt. Enrollment is the Aesthetics of paintings, watercolors, pastels, and draw Alberto Giacometti, Barbara Hep worth, compositions. The Januaryi, 1989), the Los Angeles County scholarly catalogue limited and is by registration only. Classes New Materials ings, many of them rarely seen in public. It Gaston Lachaise, Henri Matisse, Joan Mir6, accompanying the Museum of Art (February 16- April 30, 1989), exhibition is written by will meet in the Lecture Hall on the Ground November 24, 28 George Segal and will focus on the most influential aspects of Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, Pablo Prof. Eugene A. the Wads worth Atheneum (June 4- Carroll of Vassar Floor of the West Building. Call (202) Sculpture of the 1970s O'Keeffe's career: abstractions, flower Picasso, Medardo Rosso, and Auguste Rodin. College, a leading authority September3, 1989), the New-York Historical on Rosso. 842-6259 to register in one of the following and 1980s paintings, cityscapes, still lifes, and The postwar objects include sculpture by H. Diane Russell is the Society (October3, 1989-January7, 1990), and coordinator of the exhibition four sessions: November 16,18, 23, or 25. landscapes. The catalogue, with essays by Jonathan Borofsky, Anthony Caro, Jean for the the Worcester Art Museum (April 15- August National Gallery. co-curators Jack Cowart of the National Dubuffet, Ellsworth Kelly, Barnett Newman, The exhibition is 5, 1990). The exhibition is made possible supported by an indemnity Gallery and Juan Hamilton, will also include Claes Oldenburg, George Segal, and seven from the Federal through a grant from The New England. Council on the Arts a selection of previously unpublished letters works by David Smith. This exhibition is and the Humanities. Film Programs by O'Keeffe to artists and other friends, supported by Northern Telecom. assembled and annotated by research curator East Building Auditorium Sarah Greenough. This exhibition is made possible by a grant from Southwestern Bell CLOSING EXHIBITIONS "The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky," an eight- Foundation. part series devoted to the work of this An automated slide overview of the Russian director, begins on Saturday, exhibition will be shown in the East Berthe Morisot Impressionist November 14, with The Streararoller and the Building Small Auditorium, Monday Violin (1960) and Through November 29, 1987 My Name is Ivan (1962). through Friday atii:oo a.m. and2:oo p.m.; Shunning theatrical West Building, Main Floor convention, Tarkovsky Saturdays atn:oo a.m., 1:00 p.m., and 3:00 stressed the poetic and artistic aspects of p.m.; and Sundays ati:oo p.m., 3:00 p.m., The first major museum retrospective to be film, creating images of extraordinary power and 5:00 p.m. Seating will be first-come, held in America of the work of this innova and beauty. His films often resemble first-served, with no reservations required. tive and pioneering member of the impres paintings, with almost imperceptible sionist group, Berthe Morisot Impressionist movements and subtly changing light. Anna Solaris, includes many works that have not been Lawton, 1972, by Andrei Tarkovsky, to be shown Passes and Information associate professor of Russian November 21, 22 (Museum of Modern Art/Film Stills seen by the public since the artist's literature and film at Purdue University, has Archive) Pass System. On crowded weekdays and memorial exhibition in 1896. The exhibition William Merritt organized the series for weekends, free passes will be distributed Chase, A Friendly Call, 1894 or 1895 the National Gallery consists of 61 oil paintings, as well as a National Gallery of Art, Chester Dale Collection 1943 if necessary on a first-come, first-served and will introduce the program on selection of pastels, watercolors, and colored Family Programs basis. Passes are for specified half-hour November 14 at 2:00 p.m. pencil drawings from both public and private entry times. William Meiiitt Chase at Shinnecock, a The Education Department continues its collections. A vivid demonstration of O'Keeffe passes: May be obtained new film produced by the National Gallery series of programs for families with children at a Morisot's virtuoso brushwork and her extra William Merritt Chase: special exhibition desk located of Art, will be shown regularly throughout ages 6-12. This month features an animated inside the ordinary use of color, the exhibition includes Summers at Shinnecock South Entrance of the East Building. November in conjunction with the film Cathedral from the book by David examples of Morisot's early and late works Shelburne passes: May 1891-1902 exhibition William Merritt Chase: Summers Macauley, followed by a tour of decorative be obtained at and chronicles the heroic years of the a special exhibition desk at Shinnecock 1891-1902. The film surveys objects from cathedrals, and paintings located on the impressionist movement. Berthe Morisot Through November 29,1987 Upper Level of the the artist's life from early academic training illustrating them. Participants are asked to East Building. Impressionist is supported by an indemnity East Building, Ground Floor Recorded Information. Current in Munich through his years at Shinnecock, meet in the West Building Auditorium at from the Federal Council on the Arts and the information on the William Merritt Chase was one of the most Long Island, and includes footage of the 10:00 a.m. each Saturday morning for the Georgia O'Keeffe and Humanities. The exhibition has been Shelburne exhibitions is available important and influential American artists of Shinnecock landscape and of Chase's house free program, which lasts an hour and a half. by Scottish Highlander, c. 1878 organized by the Mount Holyoke College Art calling (202) 842-3472. Shelburne the late nineteenth century. This exhibition, and studio as they are today. Please see Children must be accompanied by an adult. Museum, Vermont Museum in association with the National consisting of a select group of approximately reverse side for additional information. Please call (202) 842-6249 for reservations. Gallery of Art and is supported by a generous twenty-five paintings and pastels, is the first contribution from Republic National Bank of CONTINUING to focus exclusively on Chase's greatest EXHIBITIONS New York and Banco Safra, S.A., Brazil. works, executed at his summer home and Master Drawings from The Armand Hammer Collection studio at Shinnecock, Long Island, between Le Repos 1891 and 1902. The interiors of his home and INTRODUCTORY TOURS FOREIGN LANGUAGE TOURS West Building, Ground Floor studio, the sun-filled landscapes of the (Portrait of Berthe Morisot) surrounding grassy dunes, and the comings Selections from one of the finest collections Continuing on view is Raphael's large- and goings of his own family which formed Regularly scheduled Through November 29,1987 Introduction to the foreign language tours of drawings in American private hands are scale preparatory drawing, or "cartoon," for the subjects of his summer work at of the West Building are offered on Tuesdays West Building, Main Floor West Building Collections exhibited in The Armand Hammer the painting La Belle Jardiniere in the Shinnecock are some of the most beautiful at noon beginning in the Rotunda. The Collection galleries on the ground floor of Louvre. Pricked for transfer to a panel, it is In conjunction with the exhibition Berthe paintings of Chase's career. Monday through Saturday 3:00 p.m. November schedule is as follows: Sunday 5:00 p.m. the West Building. The collection has been the only full-scale cartoon in the United Morisot Impressionist, the National William Merritt Chase: Summers at West Building, Rotunda November 3 French formed by Dr. Armand Hammer of Los States by a Renaissance artist. It has been Gallery presents a special single masterpiece, Shinnecock 1891-1902 is the first in a series November 10 Spanish Angeles. This month a new selection will go acquired by the National Gallery of Art Edouard Manet's Le Repos (Portrait of Berthe of three closely focused exhibitions of Introduction to the November 17 German on view, consisting of eighteenth-century through the generosity of The Armand Morisot). The painting, on loan from the masters and masterpieces of American November East Building Collections 24 Italian drawings. This is one of the strongest areas Hammer Foundation, and is on display in a Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of impressionism. The series, supported over in the Hammer Collection, including master gallery reminiscent of a Renaissance chapel, Design, is a particularly insightful portrait of the next three years by Bell Atlantic, will Monday through Saturday 11:00 a.m. works by Watteau, Tiepolo, and Fragonard, newly constructed to house it and other the young Berthe Morisot, Manet's sister-in- celebrate the artistic achievements of Sunday 1:00 p.m. as well as a number of recent acquisitions selections from The Hammer Collection on law. Manet was a great admirer of Morisot's William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam East Building, Ground Floor Lobby (in added to the collection this summer. a rotating basis. work and occasionally used her as a model. 1988), and John Twachtman (in 1989). 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COVER: Georgia O'Keeffe, Evening Star No. IV, 1917 ® Estate of Georgia O'Keeffe