National Gallery of Art MARCH Monday, February 26 Monday, March 5 Monday, March 12 Monday, March 19 through through through through Sunday, March 4 Sunday, March 11 Sunday, March 18 Sunday, March 25

COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS February 27-March 4 March 6-March 11 March 13-March 18 March 20-March 25

Brief gallery talks given by Education Henri Rousseau Claude Monet Sir Joshua Reynolds Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Department lecturers on a single work of art. Tropical Forest with Monkeys The Seine at Giverny Squire Musters Work Reproductions of the works discussed may be (John Hay Whitney (Chester Dale Collection) (Given in memory of (Widener Collection) purchased in the Gallery's sales shops; a Collection) West Building, Gallery 90 Governor Alvan T. Fuller by West Building, Gallery 80 written text is available without charge. West Building, Gallery 84 The Fuller Foundation, Inc.) Frances Feldman, Lecturer West Building, Gallery 59 Russell Sale, Lecturer Tuesday through Saturday 12:00p.m. William J. Williams, Lecturer Sunday 2:00 p.m. Philip Leonard, Lecturer

SPECIAL TOURS February 27-March 4 March 6-March 11 March 13-March 18 March 20-March 25

One-hour thematic tours given by Education Eighteenth-Century Styles in Frederic Edwin Church Serpents and Beasts as French Painting in the 1890s Department lecturers. England and France East Building Devil's Advocates in Art West Building, Rotunda West Building, Rotunda Ground Floor Lobby West Building, Rotunda 1:00p.m. Tuesday through Saturday Eric Denker. Lecturer Sunday 2:30 p.m. Philip Leonard, Lecturer Sally Shelburne, Lecturer William J. Williams. Lecturer

FILMS February 26-March 4 March 5-March 11 March 12-March 18 March 19-March 25

Free films on art and feature films related to Claes Oldenburg (Michael Islands (Albert and David Horowitz Plays Mozart Matisse, Voyages (Didier special exhibitions. Unreserved seats are Blackwood, 1975, 52 min.) Maysles, 1986, 58 min.) (Albert Maysles, 1987, Baussy, 1988, 58 min.) available on a first-come, first-served basis. Wed. through Fri. 12:30 Wed. through Sat. 12:30 50 min.) Wed. through Sat. 12:30 Sun. 1:00 Sun. 1:00 Wed., Thurs., Sat. 12:30 Sun. 1:00 East Building Auditorium Sun. 1:00 Dog's Dialogue (Raul Ruiz, On Top of the Whale (Raul La Vocation suspendue (Raul The East Building will close at 6:00p.m. on 1977, 22 rnin.); The Real Ruiz, 1982, 90 min., Three Sad Tigers (Raul Ruiz, Ruiz, 1977, 97 min.) Sundays, but the Fourth Street entrance will Presence (Raul Ruiz, 1983, introduced by Raul Ruiz) 1968, 105 min.) Sat. 2:30 remain open only for film audiences 60 min.); Snakes and Sat. 2:00 Sat. 2:30 Ladders (Raul Ruiz, 1980, Life is a Dream (Raul Ruiz, 20 min.) Of Great Events and The Hypothesis of the Stolen 1986, 100 min.) Sun. 7:00 Ordinary People (Raul Ruiz, Painting (Raul Ruiz, 1978, Sun. 6:00 1979, 63 min.) and La 67 min.) The Landscapes of Frederic Colonia penal (Raul Ruiz, Sun. 7:00 Edwin Church (National 1971, 68 min.) Gallery of Art, 1989, 29 min.) Sun. 7:00 The Landscapes of Frederic Henri Matisse, Landscape, Viewed from a Window, 1912/1913, State Pushkin Mon., Wed. through Fri. 2:00 Edwin Church (National Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow Sun. 6:00 The Landscapes of Frederic Gallery of Art, 1989, 29 min. Edwin Church (National Mon., Wed., Thurs. 2:00 Of Great, Events and Ordinary People, by Gallery of Art, 1989, 29 min. Sim. 6:00 Raul Ruiz, 1979, to be shown March 11 Wed. through Fri. 2:00 (The International Film Circuit, New York) Mon., Sun. 6:00

SUNDAY LECTURES March 4 March 18 March 25

Free lectures given by distinguished scholars. Art and Social Activism Rembrandt's Walks around Lost and Found: Matisse s Conversations with Artists, V No reservations needed but seating is limited. in the Thirties Amsterdam Moroccan Sketchbooks Pat Steir Sunday 4:00 p.m. Milton Brown Boudewijn Bakker Jack Co wart Artist, New York East Building Auditorium Samuel H. Kress Professor Chief Curator Curator of and Center for Advanced Study Municipal Archives Twentieth-Century Art Kathan Brown in the Visual Arts Amsterdam National Gallery of Art President, Crown Point Press National Gallery of Art San Francisco (see reverse side for details)

SUNDAY CONCERTS March 11 March 18 March 25

Free concerts by the National Gallery National Gallery Orchestra Glenda Maurice, Vienna String Trio Stephen Honigberg, cello Orchestra, recitalists, and ensembles. George Manos, Conductor mezzo-soprano Kathryn Brake, piano Unreserved seats available from 6:00 p.m. Henriette Schellenberg, Ruth Palmer, piano Works by Mozart, von Einem, All concerts are broadcast live by soprano and Beethoven Works by Bach, Schubert, and WGMS 103.5 FM Works by Poulenc, Vaughan Shostakovich Works by Bach, Williams, and Korngold Sunday 7:00p.m. Rachmaninoff, arid West Building, East Garden Court Villa-Lobos The West Building will close at 6:00 p.m. on Sundays, but concert audiences can enter through the Constitution Avenue and Fourth Street entrances. National Gallery of Art OPENING EXHIBITIONS CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS

Special Program: Film Programs Rembrandt's Landscapes: Selections and Conversations with Artists, V East Building Auditorium Drawings and Prints Transformations: Sunday, March 25 Matisse, Voyages, a new hour-long film pro­ March 11-May 20, 1990 The Art of John Marin 4:00 p.m. duced for the Centre Georges Pompidou by East Building, Ground Floor East Building Auditorium French director Didier Baussy, will have its Through April 15, 1990 A selection Washington premiere March 21 through 25. of 96 works, including more than West Building, Central Gallery In celebration of the exhibition, The 1980s: Two films by noted documentarian Albert 50 drawings and 26 landscape prints, many in Prints from the Collection of Joshua P. Smith, Selections and Transformations: The Art of Maysles, Islands about the environmental two or more impressions, are on view in the the National Gallery will hold the fifth in a East John Marin is the first comprehensive exhi­ sculptor Christo arid Horowitz Plays Mozart, Building. This is the first major exhibition series of "Conversations with Artists." Partici­ devoted bition in twenty years to examine the work of will be shown during the weeks of March 5 and to Rembrandt's landscape drawings pants will be the renowned painter arid print twentieth-century American artist John Marin. - March 12 respectively. and prints and will be seen only at the maker Pat Steir, who is represented in the show National The exhibition, which is being shown in The series "The Films of Raul Ruiz" begins Gallery. Although Rembrandt; is Rembrandt van Rijn, Tim if indit/ill. iO-ii. .Vuional by The Wave From the Sea After Leonardo, known Gallery of Art. Gift of W. G. Russell Alien Washington only, includes 147 oil paintings, on Sunday, March 4 and continues on weekends primarily as a figure painter, his draw­ Hokusai, & Courbet, and Kathan Brown, ings and prints watercolors, drawings, and etchings, repre­ through the end of March. Although his work is have endured as the archetypes founder and director of Crown Point Press, the of Dutch senting the extensive body of work by Marin not well-known in the United States, Raul landscape. None of his contem­ distinguished San Francisco print workshop. poraries that is centra] to an understanding of American Ruiz a native of Chile who has been living in matched his breadth as a landscapist, Among their topics will be the many projects in either modernism. Iri addition to the significant France since the early 1970s enjoys a consid­ theme or technique, nor did anyone on view, some for the first time in the United they have shared, the challenges of working in convey public and private collections throughout the erable reputation in Europe and is often com­ more effectively the look and feel of the States. Included also are such extraordinary print studios throughout the world, and the U.S., many of the works in the exhibition have pared to Jean-Euc Godard. His carefully Dutch countryside. prints as The Three Trees and The Gold- extraordinary vitality of contemporary been drawn from the Gallery's own Marin wrought visual style contains frequent allusions The works in the exhibition are arranged weigher's Field. John Marin. Woolworlh Building, No. 28, 1912. National printmaking. holdings, one of the foremost collections of his Gallery of Art, Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Mever to subjects as diverse as French nineteenth- thematically in five segments to highlight A fully illustrated catalogue published by Rembrandt's work in the world. century painting, popular culture, baroque distinctive approach to different the National Gallery accompanies the types A fully illustrated catalogue, co-published theater, surrealist cinema, and the qualite of landscapes, ranging from views of exhibition, which is supported by an indemnity simple by the National Gallery and Abbeville Press, franqaise cinematic tradition. Ruiz, in residence cottages to vast panoramas. Many of from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Rembrandt's Inc., accompanies the exhibition. at Harvard University this year, will be present greatest landscape drawings are Humanities. to introduce the program on March 10. Reinstallation Matisse In Morocco of Bellini and Twentieth-Century Art: The talks are Titian The given by Graduate Lecturing Current Exhibition The Paintings and Drawings, Feast of the Gods Selections for the Tenth Fellows in the Education Department. All talks Catalogues Through April 29, Anniversary of the East begin at 2:00 p.m. 1912-1913 1990 Twentieth-Century Painting and West Building, Main Floor Galleries Building The Renaissance Self-image: Italian A USA/USSR Joint Project Medals Sculpture: Selections for the Tenth from the Kress Collection The newly restored painting, The Feast oj the Through December 31, 1990 A nniversary of the East Building $19.95 March 18-June 3, 1990 Saturday, March 3; Barbara Baxter Gods, originally painted in 1514 by Giovianni East East Building, Mezzanine and Building Meet at the West Building Bellini and later repainted by Titian can be Rotunda A Profile of the East Building $15.00 Concourse, Upper Level, and Tower Upper Level clearly seen for the first time in centuries. The From Icon to Altarpiece portrayal of gods, goddesses, and satyrs enjoy­ To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the East Frederic Edwin Church $19.95 Jointly organized by the National Gallery of generous grant from the Richard King Mellon Wednesday, March 7: Thomas E. A. Dale ing a bacchanal in a sylvan setting, with a Building of the National Gallery of Art in Meet Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the State Foundation. After premiering at the National in the West Building Rotunda background landscape that was later trans­ 1988, a series of twenty-five new galleries were The 1980s: Prints from the $19.95 Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, and The State Gallery, from March 18-June 3, 1990, Matisse Of Myth and Men: The New formed by Titian, has been installed in the designed and built to accommodate a greatly York School Collection of Joshua P. Smith Hermitage Museum in the Soviet Union, this in Morocco will travel to The Museum of in company of works by Bellini, Giorgione, and expanded reinstallation of the twentieth- the Forties exhibition is the most comprehensive ever to Modern Art, New York, June 24-September 4, Saturday, March 10; Wednesday. other Venetian Renaissance masters. In addi­ century collection, complemented by loans March 21 The Feast of the Gods: $15.00 focus on the works by Henri Matisse during his 1990: the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, tion, color photographs of The Feast of the from private collections. The Upper Level Barbara Baxter Conservation, Examination, visits to Morocco in 1912-1913. Although each Moscow, September 28-November 20, 1990; Gods before restoration, a full-scale radio­ includes art from the beginning of the century Meet at the East Building Information Desk and Interpretation of his visits lasted only several months, the and The Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, graph, and an infra-red reflectogram are on to World War II. Fourteen works by David Hermits in the motifs he found there inspired his work for the December 15, 1990-February 15. 1991. Desert: Temptation and view, and a new half-hour film produced by Smith are displayed in the skylit space of the Meditation John Marin $29.95 remainder of his career. His subjects were the The exhibition is supported by an the National Gallery of Art is shown contin­ Tower Gallery. Postwar-European and Amer­ Saturday, landscape and gardens of Tangier, still lifes, indemnity from the Federal Council on the March 17: Saturday, March 31 uously. The film is made possible by The Circle ican art can be seen on the Concourse Eevel. Thomas E. A. Available from the National Gallery and the people of Morocco. Twelve of the Arts and the Humanities. Dale of the National Gallery of Art and Solomon Two publications have been produced by Meet in the West Building Rotunda Publications Service twenty-three paintings on view have never Pass system: On crowded weekdays and o Inc. the National Gallery in conjunction with the before been exhibited in the United States and weekends, free passes will be distributed if Degas ' '''Confounded In conjunction with the reinstallation, a exhibition. The installation is made possible by Sculpture " Sales Information (202) 842-6466 many of the forty-five drawings were necessary on a first-come, first-served basis. Saturday, March 24: Barbara special issue of Studies in the History of Art has a grant from American Express Company. Baxter Mail Orders (301) 322-5900 discovered during research for the exhibition. Passes are for specified half-hour entry times Meet in the West been published to accompany this exhibition. Building Rotunda The scholarly catalogue that accompanies the and may be obtained at the special pass desk exhibition includes new chronologies arid located on the main floor of the East Building. significant new documentation excerpted from Current pass information for the exhibition is letters and postcards Matisse wrote in Morocco. available by calling (202) 842-3472. CLOSING EXHIBITION INTRODUCTORY TOURS The exhibition is made possible by a Frederic Edwin Church Introduction to the West Building Collections Through March 18, 1990 A recorded tour of the West Building collec­ East Building, Mezzanine and tions, narrated by director Monday through Saturday 3:00 p.m. J. Carter Brown, is CONTINUING EXHIBITION Upper Level Sunday 1:00 p.m. available at the Ground Floor Sales Area. West Building, Rotunda Also available at the Ground Floor Sales Frederic Edwin Church is a major exhibition of Area are recorded tours of the National The 1980s: Prints from the forty-nine of the artist's finest paintings. Con­ Gallery's permanent collection of American Collection of Joshua P. Smith sidered the preeminent landscape painter of Introduction to the painting and French art in the Chester Dale mid-nineteenth-century America, Church was East Building Collections collection. Through April 8, 1990 greatly inspired not only by the scenery of A recorded tour of Twentieth-Century West Building, Ground Floor America the Catskills, the Berkshires, Monday through Friday 11:30 a.m. Painting and Sculpture is available in two Virginia, Vermont, and Maine but also by the Reflecting the major artistic Saturday 11:00 a.m.; Sunday 12:OO p.m. parts at the East Building publications desk, currents of the standing distinction, such as Richard Dieben- tropics of South America and the exotic 1980s, this exhibition contains East Building, Ground Floor Eobby Concourse Eevel. more than one korn, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, Ellsworth Kelly, landscapes of the Near East. The exhibition, hundred prints A recorded tour of Frederic Edwin Church and illustrated books lent by Howard Hodgkin, and Robert Rauschenberg. which is being shown only in Washington, Joshua P. Smith, an important is available at the entrance to the exhibition. collector of In addition, many artists whose work has presents for the first time as a group Church's Foreign Eanguage Tours contemporary art iri the United States who is received increasing attention during the 1980s, famous, large-scale paintings including considered by many to have one of the most such as Regularly scheduled foreign language tours of Jennifer Bartlett, Georg Baselitz, Niagara, Heaj't of the Andes, Twilight in the Frederic Edwin Church. La Magdalena (Scene on the extensive collections of the West Building are offered on Tuesdays at prints of the 1980s in Jonathan Borofsky, Eric Fischl, and Terry Wilderness, The Icebergs, Cotopaxi, Aurora Magdalena), detail. 1854. National Academy of Design. private hands. New York noon beginning in the Rotunda. Winters, are included. Borealis, Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, More than ninety American and European The exhibition, organized by the National and the National Gallery's own Morning in the February 27 Italian; March 6 French; artists, including many of the most significant Gallery of Art and shown iri Washington only, Tropics. In response to the great March 13 Spanish; March public interest A 216-page, fully illustrated catalogue 20 German; artists working today are represented in the is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, in this show, it is being extended an additional published by the National Gallery7 accompanies March 27 Italian exhibition. Among them are several of long­ published by the Gallery. seven weeks, through March 18. the exhibition. NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART Washington, D.C. 20565 GENERAL INFORMATION GALLERY HOURS Monday through Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Sunday 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (NEW HOURS) The National Gallery of Art has changed its Sunday schedule. 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Cover: Henri Matisse, H. Matisse by Himself, 1912, Private Collection