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Annual Report 2000 2000 ANNUAL REPORT NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 2000 ylMMwa/ Copyright © 2001 Board of Trustees, Cover: Rotunda of the West Building. Photograph Details illustrated at section openings: by Robert Shelley National Gallery of Art, Washington. p. 5: Attributed to Jacques Androet Ducerceau I, All rights reserved. The 'Palais Tutelle' near Bordeaux, unknown date, pen Title Page: Charles Sheeler, Classic Landscape, 1931, and brown ink with brown wash, Ailsa Mellon oil on canvas, 63.5 x 81.9 cm, Collection of Mr. and Bruce Fund, 1971.46.1 This publication was produced by the Mrs. Barney A. Ebsworth, 2000.39.2 p. 7: Thomas Cole, Temple of Juno, Argrigentum, 1842, Editors Office, National Gallery of Art Photographic credits: Works in the collection of the graphite and white chalk on gray paper, John Davis Editor-in-Chief, Judy Metro National Gallery of Art have been photographed by Hatch Collection, Avalon Fund, 1981.4.3 Production Manager, Chris Vogel the department of photography and digital imaging. p. 9: Giovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of Saint Peter's Managing Editor, Tarn Curry Bryfogle Other photographs are by Robert Shelley (pages 12, Rome, c. 1754, oil on canvas, Ailsa Mellon Bruce 18, 22-23, 26, 70, 86, and 96). Fund, 1968.13.2 Editorial Assistant, Mariah Shay p. 13: Thomas Malton, Milsom Street in Bath, 1784, pen and gray and black ink with gray wash and Designed by Susan Lehmann, watercolor over graphite, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, Washington, DC 1992.96.1 Printed by Schneidereith and Sons, p. 17: Christoffel Jegher after Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Baltimore, Maryland The Garden of Love, c. 1633, woodcut printed from The type is Meridien, set by ARTECH two blocks, Director's Discretionary Fund, 2000.16.1 Graphics II, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland p. 37: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Fantasy on a Mag- nificent Triumphal Arch, 1765, pen and reed pen and brown ink with brown wash, Ailsa Mellon Bruce ISBN 0-89468-292-X Fund, 1986.32.1 p. 47: Francois Boucher, Sancho Pursued by the National Gallery of Art Servants of the Duke, c. 1737, black chalk over black 4th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW wash, heightened with white on brown paper, Gift of Arthur L. Liebman, 1992.87.9 Washington, DC 20565 p. 65: Erastus Salsbury Field, "He Turned Their Waters www.nga.gov into Blood," c. 1865/1880, oil on canvas. Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1964.23.3 p. 75: Adriaen Isenbrant, The Adoration of the Shepherds, probably 1520/1540, oil on panel, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1978.46.1 p. 79: Canaletto, The Portico with the Lantern, c. 1735/1746, etching, Gift of W.G. Russell Allen, 1941.1.180 p. 87: Billy Morrow Jackson, Eve, 1967, oil on hardboard, Gift of the Artist, 1970.15.1 SS^ TENTS Trustees, Committees, and Officers 7 Acquisitions 47 President's Foreword 9 Exhibitions 65 Temporary Exhibitions at the Director's Statement 13 National Gallery of Art 65 Lenders to Exhibitions 67 Summary Report of the Year 17 Loans 69 Gifts and Acquisitions 17 Exhibitions 22 Appendices 75 Public Programs: Changes of Attribution 75 Education, Films, and Music 28 Publications and Awards 76 Collection Management and Conservation 29 Staff, Fellows, Volunteers, and Resources for Scholarly Research: Interns 79 Archives, Library, Publications 32 The Center for Advanced Study in Gi/h 87 the Visual Arts 35 Treasurer's Report 37 Financial Statements 39 - Julian Ganz Jr. David O. Maxwell Victoria P. Sant William H. Rehnquist Madeleine K. Albright The Chief Justice of the The Secretary of State United States Lawrence H. Summers Lawrence M. Small Ruth Carter Stevenson Alexander M. Laughlin The Secretary of the Treasury The Secretary of the Trustee Emerita Trustee Emeritus Smithsonian Institution "T": - : i"'. ' 1 Mlii:" - & ! -Ti \ Trustees' Council Frederic C. Hamilton Frederick A. Terry Jr. (as of 30 September 2000) Teresa F. Heinz Ladislaus von Hoffmann Raymond J. Horowitz John C. Whitehead David 0. Maxwell, Chair Robert J. Hurst Dian Woodner Robert W. Duemling, Vice Chair Stephen M. ICellen Heidi L. Berry James V. Kimsey Executive Officers Leon D. Black Leonard A. Lauder (as of 30 September 2000) Calvin Cafritz Alexander M. Laughlin Iris Cantor LaSalle D. Leffall Jr. Robert H. Smith, President Melvin S. Cohen Donald B. Marron Earl A. Powell III, Director William T. Coleman Jr. Edward J. Mathias Alan Shestack, Deputy Director Edwin L. Cox Liselotte Millard Henry A. Millon, Dean Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts James T. Dyke Diane A. Nixon Darrell R. Willson, Administrator Barney A. Ebsworth Lucio A. Noto James E. Duff, Treasurer Mark D. Ein Diana Prince Edward E. Elson Elizabeth A. Croog, Secretary and Sharon Percy Rockefeller General Counsel Doris Fisher Robert M. Rosenthal Joseph J. Krakora, External Affairs Officer Juliet C. Folger RogerW. Sant John C. Fontaine James S. Smith J. Carter Brown, Director Emeritus Rose Ellen Meyerhoff Green Ruth Carter Stevenson Evelyn D. Haas 8 TRUSTEES, COMM ITTEES, AND OFFICER Board of Trustees Finance Committee (as of 30 September 2000) (as of 30 September 2000) Robert F. Erburu, Chairman Robert H. Smith, Chairman Robert H. Smith, President Lawrence H. Summers The Secretary of the Treasury Julian Ganz Jr. Robert F. Erburu David O. Maxwell Julian Ganz Jr. Victoria R Sant David O. Maxwell William H. Rehnquist The Chief Justice of the United States Victoria R Sant Madeleine K. Albright The Secretary of State Robert R Erburu Robert H. Smith Chairman President Lawrence H. Summers Art and Education Committee The Secretary of the Treasury (as of 30 September 2000) Lawrence M. Small Robert H. Smith, Chairman The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Earl A. Powell III Ruth Carter Stevenson, Trustee Emerita Robert F. Erburu Alexander M. Laughlin, Trustee Emeritus Julian Ganz Jr. David O. Maxwell Audit Committee Victoria R Sant (as of 30 September 2000) Robert R Erburu, Chairman Lawrence H. Summers The Secretary of the Treasury Robert H. Smith Julian Ganz Jr. David O. Maxwell Victoria R Sant PRESIDENT'S F El For the National Gallery of Art fiscal 363 days a year, free of admission year 2000 provided another occasion to charge. As Mr. Mellon stipulated in honor Paul Mellon, whose unfailing making his founding gift, building the support has given the people of the nation's collection was, and is, solely United States a treasure of inestimable the responsibility of the private sector. value. His spirit of generosity was evi- We are tremendously grateful to the dent as the year began with an exhibi- President of the United States and the tion of masterpieces given to the nation Congress for upholding this historic by Mr. and Mrs. Mellon. Collecting was commitment to support America's always a pleasure for them, and they National Gallery of Art. The fiscal year made an art of giving. The extraordi- 2000 federal appropriation funded the nary gifts of works of art, his bequest Gallery's day-to-day operations and of endowment funds, his long and dis- maintenance as well as the continued tinguished service on the Board of implementation of the Gallery's master Trustees, and his magnanimity in creat- plan for repairing and upgrading its ing one of the great architectural monu- facilities. This crucial funding enables ments of the twentieth century, the East the National Gallery each year to pre- Building, are all part of Paul's enduring sent its renowned collection and pro- legacy. grams to millions of visitors and a wide The National Gallery's remarkable international audience. public-private partnership came into Private philanthropy is essential not being in 1937, when Andrew W. Mel- only to the strength of the collection Ion's gift of his art collection and funds but to the success of other important for what is now the West Building was Gallery activities. In the coming years it accepted by a Joint Resolution of the will be especially critical to secure Seventy-fifth Congress. In accepting this resources for art acquisition and special Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, Venetian Fantasy with an Ornamental Arch, 1750s, pen and black and unprecedented gift, the federal govern- exhibitions. To meet this challenge, the gray ink over graphite with gray wash and white ment agreed to provide the funds Gallery launched special millennium heightening on blue paper, rubbed on verso with red chalk and partly indented for transfer, Director's needed to maintain the Gallery as the initiatives this year, one to raise spend- Discretionary Fund, 2000.67.1 (detail) nation's art museum, keeping it open able and endowment funds for acquisi- 9 tions, and the other to secure endow- acquisition, among them Roger W. works on paper as well as funds for ment funds for exhibitions. I am pleased and Victoria P. Sant, Mrs. Robert M. endowment. Gertrude Laughlin Chanler to report that we have made significant Weidenhammer, Mr. and Mrs. Mark bequeathed to the Gallery twenty-five progress toward our goals for these ini- Kington, Robert R and Arlene R. major eighteenth-century drawings and tiatives, thanks to several major gifts Kogod, and The Brown Foundation, two etchings. The National Gallery also received in fiscal year 2000. In the area Inc., of Houston. We were also delighted received many works of art and a gen- of acquisitions the Gallery received a to receive leadership commitments for erous bequest of funds from Frances R number of outstanding works of art as the Gallery's exhibition endowment Smyth-Ravenel, who, with her late outright gifts, including major American fund from the Eugene B. Casey Foun- husband, Gaillard F. Ravenel, served the modernist paintings given by Mr. and dation and an anonymous donor. The Gallery for many years—he as chief of Mrs.
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